Previous studies had already found that people with anxious and impulsive personality have a higher risk of suffering from coronary heart disease and that calm people and patients have a tendency to live longer. Now, a new study puts on the table that the degree of extraversion is directly related to the health of individuals.
A team of researchers from the Institute of Cell Biology at the University of Bern, in Switzerland, coordinated by Eduardo Moreno, has managed to considerably extend the life expectancy of some flies.
Are there parallels between the acquisition of language in humans and the ability to communicate through song in birds? According to one study, such similarities exist even at the genetic level.
Despite the great diversity of shapes and sizes that exist in nature, a series of general laws common to all of them persist, including humans. These laws are determined by just a few genes called "Hox" in multicellular organisms. Now, a team of scientists from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) has succeeded in discovering that the development of the fingers and genitals is regulated by exactly the same DNA fragment and that the other is derived from one of these structures.
Several genomic studies have previously suggested that a specific stretch of the human genome contains a gene or genes that predispose a man to be gay. Now, a new and extensive study carried out by a team of researchers from several American universities (Cambridge, Evanston, Chicago, Miami ...) concludes that there is no doubt that there is a link between homosexuality and genes.
The St. Louis School of Medicine in Washington (USA), the Broad Institute of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and other international entities have located for the first time 15 mutations in the NPC1L1 gene, all of them associated with a reduction of the so-called cholesterol "Bad" or LDL, as well as to protect against the risk of suffering acute myocardial infarction.
Despite looking like something out of a science fiction movie, a team of researchers from the Federal Polytechnic School of Zurich (Switzerland) has managed to devise a method of genetic regulation that, through brain waves, is capable of controlling the conversion of genes into proteins. The results of the study have been published in the journal Nature Communications.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
