The tail has been a very useful tool since the first animals appeared, more than 500 million years ago. Fish have used it to propel themselves through the water, dinosaurs balanced with them and scorpions use them as a weapon. Closer to our species, 25 million years ago, ancestral primates used them as another limb, … Read more
The European Commission has authorized the first treatment that uses the revolutionary CRISPR technique to edit human DNA. The therapy, called Casgevy, is effective against beta thalassemia and sickle cell anemia, two potentially fatal blood diseases. More than 8,000 patients in Europe qualify to receive this treatment, according to the American company Vertex Pharmaceuticals, developer … Read more
Aissam Dam, 11 years old, son of a Moroccan family who emigrated to Barcelona, has recovered his hearing thanks to a gene therapy experimented in the United States. The researchers responsible for the clinical trial, carried out at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, did not guarantee that the treatment against the type of congenital deafness … Read more
Obesity, a pathology that affects more than one billion people in our society and is constantly growing, is characterized by an increase in body fat, and constitutes a risk factor for a set of diseases, including risk of cardiovascular, diabetes, cancer, stroke, hypertension, COVID, joint problems, and a long etc., which represent serious limitations in … Read more
2023-11-23 23:31:00 Man smoking (Image source: Pexels) Looking at Chinese websites, it is prohibited to create mirror websites. When someone who leads a healthy life is suddenly diagnosed with cancer, it’s not only shocking, but it raises profound questions: Why me? This happens often, even in people who don’t smoke, eat healthy, exercise regularly, and … Read more
2023-10-16 02:38:28 “A man in his 70s came to the clinic with a very large tumor on his neck. It was located in the center of the neck, about 7 or 8 centimeters. It had invaded the trachea and compressed the esophagus, making the patient unable to speak or eat. My breathing is also short … Read more
2023-10-06 23:31:00 Yang Ziwei mentioned that people with hyperlipidemia should eat more foods high in fiber; the picture shows the situation. (Picture taken from freepik) [Health Channel/Comprehensive Report]Modern people have abnormal meals for three meals. Under the eating habits of high oil, high salt, and high sugar, they are prone to hyperlipidemia. According to the … Read more
2023-09-14 23:38:53 After the operation, the woman has truly become a girl. (Photo / Newspaper photo) A woman who has lived for 20 years is suddenly told that she is a boy? This is not a movie plot, but a real event that happened in Huai’an, mainland China. There is a 20-year-old woman in Huai’an, … Read more