It involves the study of the biomolecules present in saliva, both proteins, DNA and RNA, which offer a fairly complete view of the biology and genomics of a specific individual. According to David Wong, from the University of California, Los Angeles (USA), saliva has recently become a liquid as useful as blood to assess the health of an individual.
A team of French scientists has unraveled the set of molecular signals that connect the intestine and the brain and generate the feeling of fullness that makes us stop eating, and they have found that protein foods are a key part of the mechanism. The results of this research are published in the journal Cell.
Alexander Varshavsky, a Muscovite by birth but an American by nationality, has just won the Frontiers of Knowledge award from the BBVA Foundation in the Biomedicine category. Its main merit, discovering the mechanism of protein destruction that, when failing, causes diseases.
Losing weight in summer has become the obsession of our time and it is not surprising, since in Spain 37.65% of the population is overweight and 16% suffers from obesity and according to the World Health Organization (WHO), in Around the world there are more than 1,000 million overweight adults and of these, 300 million are obese, says the Spanish Heart Foundation (FEC).
American scientists have managed to restore memory and hearing in mice suffering from Alzheimer's disease after increasing the concentration of a protein in their body. The method could cure people suffering from this disease.
Not yet, but it could be close to being achieved. Scientists at the University of Milan, in Italy, have created an amino acid supplement that increases the life expectancy of mice, according to a study published in the journal Cell Metabolism.
A team of American scientists has developed a technique to identify lytic enzymes in tears and saliva that could be used as antibiotics to kill resistant disease-causing bacteria.
A survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bomb and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, this Japanese researcher based in the United States has dedicated his life to studying bioluminescence. Their findings have found multiple applications in medicine, genetics, biotechnology ...
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.
