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Humans have demonstrated that having large brains are key to our evolutionary success, and yet such brains are extremely rare in other animals. Most get by on tiny brains, and don’t seem to miss the extra brain cells

Australian scientists have identified a novel way for epithelial cells, which form layers in organs such as the skin and stomach, to adhere to one another and perceive growth signals at these attachments, allowing them to produce tissues of the proper size and shape. Read further on Dynamite News:

Sniffing emotional tears from women can cut male aggression by more than 40% and cause changes in brain

These breakthroughs are no-doubt-about-it advances that crucially improved our medical, technological, or astronomical understanding.

Author John Lubbock once said, "Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books." This statement rings true, as proven by the broadening influence of bioinspired design in formulating tangible…

A male contraceptive is almost here – and it’ll be another test of whether heterosexual men are actually willing to share the responsibilities of adult life

Because it is so easy to change the mRNA recipes, cancer vaccines can be part of a personalized medicine plan where doctors sample a patient’s tumour, sequence key genes and adjust the mRNA treatment to include recipes specific to that patient’s cancer. Clinical trials using this personalized approach for pancreatic…

The DNA of living species encode their complexity, but where do these genes come from? The University of Helsinki researchers answered long-standing problems about the development of small regulatory genes and described a way for generating their DNA palindromes. Read further on Dynamite News:

One in five children suffer from eczema and one in 10 adults

According to two research from UCL and Yale, chemotherapy becomes less effective when healthy">healthy cells encourage cancer cells to grow more slowly. Read further on Dynamite News:

Two geneticists explain the groundbreaking CRISPR-based therapies approved for sickle-cell disease and β-thalassaemia, and other genetic therapeutics in development, including base-editing and prime-editing.