A study published in the journal Nature analyzes the potential use of medicinal plants by African elephants in the Mount Elgon region of Kenya. The research compiles observations on the selective consumption of certain natural resources and examines their possible relationship with self-medication behaviors. The research combines the study of animal behavior with the traditional knowledge [...]
A medical team at Hospital Universitario La Paz in Madrid has developed an experimental technique aimed at enabling the recipient’s body to tolerate a transplanted organ as if it were its own. The procedure, based on a “double graft”, combines organ transplantation with hematopoietic stem cells from the same donor, which undergo a purification process [...]
Neural Network in the Heart – AI-generated image. A study conducted by Yale University and published in the journal Cell has revealed that the heart possesses its own nervous system that is far more complex and influential than previously believed. Although the existence of the intrinsic cardiac nervous system (ICNS) has been known for years, its [...]
For decades, the explanation for why some people live longer than others has focused on the environment: lifestyle, diet, diseases, or chance. However, new research published in Science challenges this approach and assigns genetics a much more decisive role than previously thought. The study, led by biologist Uri Alon , argues that up to 55% [...]
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A groundbreaking gene therapy trial has restored hearing in both ears of five children born deaf, offering new hope for future treatments. The children, aged between one and eleven, suffered from genetic mutations that disrupted the production of a crucial protein needed for auditory signals to travel from the ear to the brain. Researchers at Fudan [...]
