わたしたちの体全体に大きな影響を与えることがわかっている腸内細菌。このほど発表された研究では、老いたマウスに若いマウスの腸内細菌を移植すると、脳の認知機能や免疫機能が向上することがわかった。こうした研究が応用され、認知力が衰えた高齢者の治療として若者の便が使われる日が来るかもしれない。
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ほぼ完全な翼竜の化石を発見 ブラジルで警察が押収
非常に希少な美術品と同様に、絶滅した古代生物の希少な化石にも、かなりの金銭的価値が認められます。ブラジルの警察が発見した翼竜の化石は、保存状態が良く、ほぼ完全な骨格が残されていました。 この化石は、「トゥパンダクティルス […]
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Dance of the p values
“You could play this at parties, develop a dance for the dance of the p values and reflect on how ridiculous it is that p values are right at the centre of our thinking about drawing conclusions from research.”
What is life?
Scientists Are Proposing a Radical New Framework to Redefine Life on Earth – “The union of two energetic and informatic processes that can encode and pass on adaptive information forward through time. Using this definition vastly increases what can be …
These data are not just excessively similar. They are impossibly similar
Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty is a blog post at Data Colada where researchers uncovered dishonest data meddling in a PNAS-published paper about… dishonesty. A group of anonymous researchers found problems with…
孤独を感じるのはヒトだけじゃない！過食と睡眠不足に陥ったハエの話
新型コロナによる外出規制が続く中、他人と接する機会が減ってしまい、「孤独感」を覚える人が増えています。世界中で人々の食事量が増加し、体重の増加や睡眠不足が顕著になっていますが、これには孤独感が影響しているという見方もあり […]
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Not So Paleo, Actually
Wild grain by ibm4381 (cc by)clew’s post Stones speak and ashes live explores recent archeological research and evidence that “shred the long-standing idea that early people subsisted mainly on meat.”
The Big Death
New study says humans killed Neanderthals by having sex with them. A rare blood disorder discovered in Neanderthal babies was likely the result of breeding with humans, according to a new study. […] This disorder would have made it difficult for the…
A question of guts and brains
Fecal transplants reverse signs of brain aging in mice (Science Magazine) – A new study published in Nature Aging shows a transplant of gut microbes, in the form of feces, from young mice to old ones can turn back the clock on the aging brain. The firs…
Can your startup support a research-based workflow?
Most startups and scaleups are used to fast-paced resourcing and R&D cycles designed specifically for product development. However, there is no rushing academic-style research.