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20/11/2020

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11/09/2019

Scientists are advancing towards a treatment for pancreatic cancer. Read the ins and outs on sciencebriefss!

https://sciencebriefss.com/health/breaking-the-defense-wall-of-pancreatic-cancer

Weakening the defensive wall around a tumor so that chemomedicines can reach cancer cells better: if that approach proves to be effective in humans, that w...

25/07/2019

No room for doubt: science shows that current global warming is unique to the postindustrial era, and can be linked to greenhouse gas emissions. Is this the end of climate skepticism? Read it here on sciencebriefss.com: https://sciencebriefss.com/earth/current-global-warming-is-unique-in-history-and-parallels-greenhouse-gas-emissions

The average temperature on earth has risen faster than ever in the last 150 years. This is apparent from three new studies, recently published in the scien...

05/07/2019

Let's start planting trees to save the climate!

Researchers have calculated that 0.9 billion hectares of land worldwide could be used for reforestation to capture two thirds of human-made carbone mission...

07/06/2019

Important scientific news: bacteria in our intestines metabolize commonly-used medicines. Is this why many drugs work in some patients, but not in others? Read a summary on sciencebriefss.com:

https://sciencebriefss.com/health/intestinal-bacteria-influence-the-effect-of-commonly-used-therapeutic-drugs

Commonly used drugs such as cancer medication, antidepressants, birth-control contraceptive pills, and those that lower blood pressure or cholesterol are c...

06/06/2019

This can only be a German study: bacteria in Sauerkraut communicate with the immune system. Read a summary here:

Lactic acid bacteria, which convert cabbage into sauerkraut and milk into yoghurt, have been found to secrete a substance (D-phenyllactic acid) that binds...

04/06/2019

What came first, the feather or the bird? Read it on Sciencebriefss!

After analyzing 250-million-year-old fossils from China, paleontologists have discovered that pterosaurs had feathers, long before birds had evolved. The f...

26/05/2019

Mushrooms have appeared on earth much earlier than we thought... One billion years ago! Read here about this amazing discovery:

Numerous microfossils of fungi have been found in Canada, which are up to one billion years old. This find pushes the age of fungi back by 450 million year...

15/05/2019

Is antibiotics resistance becoming a threat to human health? What do you think about this newly discovered resistance gene that renders even the last resort antibiotic colistin useless? Check it out here:

When scientists analyzed the genome of Salmonella bacteria, they discovered a gene, named mcr-9, that renders bacteria resistant to the last resort antibio...

07/05/2019

Big news yesterday: about one million (!) plant and animal species might become extinct in the next decades. And we, humans, are to blame! Read a summary on sciencebriefss.com

https://sciencebriefss.com/life-news/shrinking-biodiversity-threatens-human-life-research-warns

Plant and animal species on earth are declining at such a rapid pace that human life is also threatened. This emerges from a large scientific study of the...

26/02/2019

https://sciencebriefss.com/life-news/understanding-animals-social-life-could-help-save-endangered-species

A new scientific publication supports the idea that understanding the rich social life of animals might help conservation efforts. The cultural aspects of...

21/02/2019

I never thought about that!

https://sciencebriefss.com/life-news/this-is-why-zebras-have-stripes

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The origin of the typical stripe pattern of zebras has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, a new study suggests an interesting theory: the stripes may be...