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Cancer, give people a fighting chance
The cells of the human body have a life span of 2 weeks to 15 years. To ensure the continuity of the human body, they duplicate and then die. This is written into the DNA. Hormones trigger DNA functions. There are a hundred thousand billion cells in the human body. Every day, 50 billion cells…
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Soins
Soins «Of course, it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?» – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. «You don’t choose madness, but you choose to care or not». The nurse set her up in the waiting room. Her radiant smile added: «Wait…
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License on the Red Planet – A science fiction story
License on the Red Planet – A science fiction story Clementine woke up suddenly. She had dreamt that she was on the Red planet again, the planet where she was born. She was still considered a citizen of this planet, not of the Planet Brown for which she had left everything. As she couldn’t pay…
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In yogurt we trust
CRISPR-Cas9 A single shot to cure a disease that today requires lifelong medication costing 10k USD per year. – The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 – Emmanuelle Charpentier & Jennifer A. Doudna: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/press-release/ – MIT technology Day 2017: Feng Zhang’s speech : https://youtu.be/UedmjollafY via @YouTube – Feng Zhang named James and Patricia Poitras Professor in NeuroscienceCRISPR…