Typical and atypical signs of cancer
Being diagnosed with cancer is one of the scariest things imaginable. But a cancer diagnosis doesn’t have to be a death sentence.…
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Let’s test the reasoning abilities of ChatGPT
I challenge you to the following test: how good is ChatGPT at reasoning? In order to evaluate the ability of ChatGPT to perform inferences, I suggest you ask the bot to solve the problem of 12 balls, which I have described below.…
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What makes a psychopath: nature or nurture?
I have noticed that, in recent years, there have been a lot of violent, often mass, murders where the perpetrator was young, sometimes still a teenager, and the people around him/her, including family, said that they had not noticed anything concerning in his/her behavior before the murders.…
Catherine the Great, a great art collector
Loved by some (quite a few), loathed by others (many too), and the subject of gossip to most of her contemporaries, Catherine II of Russia a.k.a.…
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What is going on with the ozone layer?
Did you know that, little by little, the ozone layer is thickening? If you want to refresh your general knowledge about the ozone layer, please continue reading this page.…
About dogs and cats’ domestication
Ancient DNA reveals that canine and human genomes evolved in tandem, unlike the feline genome, which remained largely unchanged for thousands of years after the cats entered human’s life
The bond between dogs and humans is ancient and enduring.…
The FBI’s Fake Russian Agent Reveals His Secrets
In an exclusive interview, a retired FBI agent who posed as a KGB officer finally spills the beans about his greatest sting operations.
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The link between ACE2 and SARS-CoV-2
This post is a re-publication of the following article from the online journal The Conversation:
What is the ACE2 receptor, how is it connected to coronavirus and why might it be key to treating COVID-19?…
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Cancer and gene regulation
Cancer can be described as a disease of altered gene expression. In cancer cells, gene mutations modify the control of the cell cycle and cells don’t stop growing as they normally would.…
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Cancer and the cell cycle
Cancer is a collective name for many different diseases caused by a common mechanism: uncontrolled cell division. In cancer cells, mutations modify the control of the cell cycle and cells don’t stop growing as they normally would.…
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The long road to mRNA vaccines
The central dogma of molecular biology says that the DNA code is transcribed to messenger RNA, or mRNA, which, in turn, is translated to proteins.…
The Lebensborn Program
A few years ago I saw the movie “Spring of Life” and I confess that I was very impressed.…
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