Category's article : "Biology"

The formation of the brain and the development of thought has always fascinated scientists. A better understanding of this "block of jelly" opens the [...]

The brain is a truly fascinating organ. It operates at lightning speed, controlling every aspect of our lives, keeping all activities under a [...]

As the leading cause of death worldwide, tobacco has a really harmful effect on our bodies and our brains. To ease the process of with [...]

Imagine you had to remove the lettuce, tomatoes and onions from your burger, leaving only the meat, sauce and cheese. The rest of the ingredients just [...]

Sexual orientation has been under a glaring spotlight during recent years, with every right so, due to being neglected and mislabelled [...]

In the last few years, major advances in genetics, and particularly in sequencing, have allowed experts to develop protocols to create [...]

With astrocytes buzzing around the brain, oligodendrocytes hugging every stranger they meet, and everybody dancing to the beat of neurons, somebody ne [...]

On the occasion of Women's Rights Day, together with the Cortex team, we deliver this article on endometriosis, accompanied by written and oral testim [...]

Amidst billions of connections with their neighbors, neurons fire electrical and chemical information at each other at enormous speed, akin to a game [...]

Who has never dreamed or dreamed of having their perfect double, similar in every way (for those who do not have a "real" twin)? In sc [...]

What we envision when somebody mentions the brain is a tangle of neurons exchanging information at tremendous speed, sparks of electricity racing thro [...]

Brain is our most complex organ. Not only do its various inhabitants play such an intricate dance, the tempo of which hasn't been decoded yet, but it [...]

The skin is an organ that protects us from the outside world. On 1 cm3, there are 3 blood vessels, 12 nerves, 100 glands that allow us [...]

We are in 1950, in the United States, in a cornfield with biologist Barbara McClintock. This immense pioneer discovers DNA that leaps from gene to gen [...]

A cell is like a big factory that is always in turmoil. When we zoom in on the part of a cell called the nucleus, we find our genetic makeup in the fo [...]

Odors attract us or on the contrary repel us. It is a meaning fundamental to our survival that causes a real handicap for indi [...]

Tardigrades lie between arthropods (articulated legs) and nematodes (also called roundworms) in phylogeny (study of links between rela [...]

Some of you may have heard of the gut microbiome, which refers to the bacteria and other microorganisms that inhabit our intestines an [...]

The intestinal microbiota, which weighs between 1 and 2 kg, represents all the microorganisms present in our intestines. It has two ma [...]

The history of CRISPR begins in Japan in the late 1980s. A research team will discover it in the DNA of a bacterium:Escherichia coli.Microscopy photog [...]

Everyone experiences moments of stress in their life. It is an important element for the survival of man and animals. However, in our modern society, [...]

For a long time, we have imagined talking with trees and plants. We find examples in the most famous cartoons like Pocahontas exchanging with grandm [...]

I have heard many times, whether around me or on students lips : «We only use 10% of our brain capacity. » Well, no! To understand better why one of t [...]

Life on Earth has existed for about 4 billion years now, and 2 billion that single cells without nuclei have appeared. There were arch [...]

We often hear about it, whether in terms of health or diet, but few people know what it is all about. Where do our proteins come from, how are they ma [...]

We saw in the article on proteins (Protein, that unknown star) that our genes are transcribed to produce proteins and enzymes. This coding DNA represe [...]