Nano rod and worm are the best shaped nanoparticles in cancer drug delivery
Micrographs of shapes of Nanoparticles (a) Spheres. (b) Rectangular disks. (c) Rods. (d) Worms. (e) Oblate ellipses. (f) Elliptical...
Workaholism linked to psychiatric disorders
Workaholism frequently co-occurs with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety, and...
ITOP: A 3D bioprinter can produce human body parts
Scientists have transplanted living tissue constructed by a sophisticated and improved 3D printer. A challenge for tissue engineering is...
Male and female brain differences negligible
Meta-analysis of structural MRI volumes that found no significant difference in hippocampal size between men and women. Meta-analysis is...
Why elephants rarely get cancer?
Elephants have 38 additional modified copies (alleles) of a gene that encodes p53, a well-defined tumor suppressor, as compared to...
Smoking and alcohol use are linked to premature aging
Cigarette smoking and heavy alcohol use cause epigenetic changes to DNA that reflect accelerated biological aging in distinct, measurable...
The Nobel Prize 2015 for medicine
Three scientists from Ireland, Japan and China have won the Nobel prize in medicine. Irish scientist William C. Campbell and Japanese...
Tooth enamel originated in skin and colonized teeth later
When did the enamel that covers our teeth evolve? And where in the body did this tissue first appear? In a new study, researchers...
Engineering Microbiomes to Improve Plant
Humans have been breeding crops until they're bigger and more nutritious since the early days of agriculture, but genetic manipulation...
