Science and Health (EN) The secrets of DNA (part 2) 17 Jan 201917 Jan 2019 In a previous post (this one) I described how DNA is structured and how is organized in the cell. I mentioned that some chromosome regions are accessible and others closed…
Science and Health (EN) A look into the future: diagnosis of cancer through blood analysis 18 Dec 201818 Dec 2018 Today I will tell you about a topic that is gaining relevance in the field of cancer diagnosis. As you have already heard thousand times, in order to cure a…
Science and Health (EN) Tell me how your body grows, and will I tell you if you develop diabetes 17 Dec 201828 Jan 2019 A recent study made in China/USA published by Zhang and colleagues revealed that increase of body mass index (BMI) during adolescence has a high correlation with adult type 2 diabetes…
Science and Health (EN) Multiple sclerosis: a slow harakiri of the organism 12 Dec 201823 Jan 2019 In this post I want to tell you about the most common non-traumatic disabling disease among young adults: multiple sclerosis. Let’s see first, what is multiple sclerosis? As usual,…
Science and Health (EN) A colored view of DNA. The basics of biology and genetics 11 Dec 201812 Dec 2018 Each living organism, including humans of course, store all the information in the DNA. In a non-technical way, we can define the DNA as the body's instruction manual. We are…
Science and Health (EN) How does cancer arise? 30 Nov 2018 I’ve already dedicated a post (here) to describe how frequent tumors are. In this post I will focus instead on how tumors arise. We know that viruses and bacteria are…
Science and Health (EN) The secrets of DNA (part 1) 22 Nov 201811 Dec 2018 What do we know about DNA? A lot, but not everything yet. I am a biologist and DNA has been my Polar Star during the last 10 years (moving from…
Science and Health (EN) Cancer statistics worldwide in 2018 20 Nov 201820 Nov 2018 In September 2018, the International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR) released the last version (currently) of the GLOBOCAN database, which contains estimates of cancer incidence and mortality worldwide for 36…
Science and Health (EN) Why haven’t we been able to find a cure for cancer yet? 13 Nov 201813 Nov 2018 It’s a question that spontaneously arises whenever we hear of someone dying of cancer. The discovery of antibiotics and the invention of vaccines drastically reduced the number of deaths due…
