Tag: human
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Forgive and Forget needs real courage
Do we remember our childhood days when we were so happy to join hands with our best friend after we had a small fight! Forgive and Forget It was so easy to forget, the small mistakes we did and forgave each other. Our childhood days was a bed of roses, and we were not worried…
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Human embryo-like model created from human stem cells
Scientists from the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the Hubrecht Institute in The Netherlands, have developed a new model to study an early stage of human development, using human embryonic stem cells. Fig 1. Image analysis of human gastruloid showing ‘anteroposterior’ patterning. Green is a posterior part similar to the tail-end of an embryo,…
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Evolution of pandemic coronavirus outlines the path from animals to humans
Summary A team of scientists studying the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, found that it was especially well-suited to jump from animals to humans by shapeshifting as it gained the ability to infect human cells. Conducting a genetic analysis, researchers from Duke University, Los Alamos National Laboratory,…
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Modern sea-level rise linked to human activities
Surprising glacial and nearly ice-free periods in the last 66 million years Summary New research reaffirms that modern sea-level rise is linked to human activities and not to changes in Earth’s orbit. Surprisingly, the Earth had nearly ice-free conditions with carbon dioxide levels not much higher than today and had glacial periods in times…