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How chronic liver diseases cause molecular changes in the brain?

Scientists found that molecular changes affect the brain as early as the second week of liver disease. And yet, the rats have minimal symptoms of the disease.

Scientists confirmed the theory of very strong magneto-optical resonance in graphene

Controlling infrared and terahertz waves using magnetic and electric fields is one of the extraordinary difficulties in physics that could revolutionize optoelectronics, telecommunications, and...

Medicines made of gold nanoparticles to help the immune system

Nanotechnology is helping to considerably improve, even revolutionize, many technologies and industry sectors: information technology, homeland security, medicine, transportation, energy, food safety, and environmental...

What triggers the Schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia, a severe mental illness, in which patients decipher reality strangely or let's say abnormally. For them, the world is a cluster of confusing...

Music strengthens the development of brain networks of very premature babies

Almost 1% of children are born very prematurely in Switzerland. However, recent advances have offered them a good chance of survival, still, the children...

Five planets revealed after 20 years of observation

The first evidence of an exoplanet was noted in 1995. A giant planet was found in a four-day orbit around the nearby star 51...

Necrophagy: a means of survival in the Dead Sea

Studying organic matter in sediments helps shed light on the distant past. What was the climate like? What organisms populated the Earth? What conditions...

A gentle method to unlock the mysteries of the deep brain

The Subcortex regions of the brain are located below the cerebral cortex and completely covered by it. As they are located in the deepest...

The physical forces of cells in action

Detecting physical force is quite difficult. Imaging the physical forces that act in living cells remains one of the main mysteries of current biology....

How much confidence we have in our interpretations of other people’s emotions?

Sometimes we mimic other's expressions and try to reflect their emotions. But do we interpret them correctly? And do we trust our own judgment? UNIGE scientists...

What happens in the brain of compulsive drug users?

Addiction is a disease that develops in stages: it starts with the initial exposure to a substance followed by a phase where consumption remains...

How the second X chromosome in females gradually becomes inactive?

According to cell biology, men have an X chromosome whereas women have two (XX). But, how can we get around this difference? Scientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE),...

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