by Daniel Lawler One recent case of extreme heat threatening health came at a jamboree in South Korea, where hundreds of scouts fell ill. Scientists have identified the maximum mix of heat and humidity a human body can survive. Even a healthy young person will die after enduring six hours of 35-degree Celsius (95 Fahrenheit)...
by Earlham Institute Two distinct clusters apparent in the global landscape of adult gut resistome profiles. a NMDS projection of Bray–Curtis dissimilarities among the log-transformed ARG family profiles (cpg) in adult gut metagenomes (contours estimate sample densities). Samples were colored by cluster assignment (PAM, Bray-Curtis clustering, k=2). b Average silhouette width of PAM Bray-Curtis clusters as...
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY The human body can predict the timing of regular meals, according to a new study from the University of Surrey. The research team also found that daily blood glucose rhythms may be driven not only by meal timing but by meal size. In the first study of its kind, researchers from Surrey, led by Professor Jonathan...
by Center for Genomic Regulation Overview of donors from the GTEx project, with time of death and season of death recorded when measurements are taken. Credit: Wucher V et al., 2023, PLOS Biology, CC BY 4.0 The daily rotation of Earth and its yearly voyage around the sun marks the natural rhythm of life on...
by Daniel M. Davis, The Conversation Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg with Moshe Biton (right) and Aviv Regev (left). The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is one of the major funders of the Human Cell Atlas. Credit: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, CC BY-ND The average body contains about 37 trillion cells—and we are in the midst of a revolutionary quest...
By Michael Irving November 04, 2021 Staphylococcus aureus is one of the bacteria that the new antimicrobial peptides were found to be effective againstiLexx/Depositphotos Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are poised to become a major health threat in the coming decades, but now it turns out that new antibiotics might have been inside us all along. Researchers at...
1. Approximately 50,000 cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells during the time it takes you to read this sentence. We make a new skeleton every three months and a new layer of skin every month. 2. There’s something unique about all of us, and it’s not just your fingerprint....
