Biology and Medical Forum

Join the expert discussion on biology and medical topics. This may include the study of living organisms, molecular, Botany, Micro, Genetics, Ecology.

Threads

Is Struggle an Essential Mechanism of Evolution?

  • quantumcarl
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14

Medical Can Plasticity of the Brain Overcome Objections to the Theory of Mind?

  • pivoxa15
  • · Replies 15 ·
Replies
15

What should I do about this heartburn?

  • tribdog
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Is there a cure for AIDS? A young man may have found a breakthrough.

  • klusener
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Medical Improving IQ: The Importance of Physics

  • Improve IQ
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Identifying the Adorable Breed of This Puppy: A Scientific Approach

  • Pengwuino
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Is Sleeping with One Eye Open Harmful?

  • iggybaseball
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Blind as a bat (the mammal, not the baseball weapon)

  • rachmaninoff
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Medical Asexuality & Hypnosis - Can Humans Change Sexual Orientation?

  • e^e
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Africa & DDT: Why Don't We Send More?

  • Mk
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Is MSG in Chinese Food Causing Excessive Fatigue?

  • wasteofo2
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Cyclopse Cat lived for one day

  • scott1
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Humans Use More Than 10% of Their Brains: Science Myths

  • scott1
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

The DNA of Eve: Uncovering the Mystery of Human Origins

  • JonahHex
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Replies
1

Medical Recovery from hyperpolarisation and Voltage Clamp

  • gamecube999
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

What is the impact of having 3x chromosomes instead of 2?

  • mell
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Replies
11

How weather affect your height? does it have any role at all?

  • En_lizard
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Medical Biological roots of passive agressive (PA) personality? PA disorder?

  • EnumaElish
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Will PFers answer the call to save Arildno's beloved butterflies?

  • arildno
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Hot & Spicy Foods: Why Do They Make Us Sweat & Clear Our Sinuses?

  • Pengwuino
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Scientist discover gene that regulates life span

  • scott1
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Can Stroke be Prevented? Tips for Adults

  • Sprinter
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10

Medical Action Potentials: How Does it Work?

  • Roxy
  • · Replies 35 ·
2
Replies
35

What is the Percentage of Sexual Offenders in the Total Population?

  • 0TheSwerve0
  • · Replies 15 ·
Replies
15

Questions about Multiple Sclerosis: Risk, Depression, Cure

  • Lisa!
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

What is the 0.1% of Bacteria That Antibacterial Products Can't Kill?

  • dleacock
  • · Replies 16 ·
Replies
16

Is Evolution a Fact or Theory? Understanding the Scientific Perspective

  • Dooga Blackrazor
  • · Replies 26 ·
Replies
26

Occipital bunning in neanderthals

  • 0TheSwerve0
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Can Excessive PC Gaming Stunt Your Growth?

  • Physics_wiz
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Is our future potential already coded in our DNA?

  • dleacock
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

News DHS radiological cleanup: 10rem/year for general public?

  • rachmaninoff
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Pollen Morphology & Pollination: Resources & References

  • Clausius2
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Why is Arrhythmia Bad? Answers from a Doctor

  • ShawnD
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Medical Is Reading Direction Linked to Brain Structure and Handedness?

  • Loren Booda
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14

Materials manufactured by cells

  • scott_alexsk
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

How does an embolism cause death?

  • Mental Gridlock
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Medical Corticospinal Tract: Explaining the Stretch Reflex

  • Roxy
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

How do we adjust to temperature?

  • Ivan Seeking
  • · Replies 21 ·
Replies
21

Is an All-Ham Diet Healthy? Pros and Cons of a Pork-Heavy Diet

  • tribdog
  • · Replies 23 ·
Replies
23

Was Hwang's Stem Cell Research All a Fraud?

  • rachmaninoff
  • · Replies 13 ·
Replies
13

Why Can We Stand Hotter Temperatures in our Mouths?

  • Danger
  • · Replies 18 ·
Replies
18

Evolution of Poison: How Ladybugs Gained a Defensive Trait

  • LeonhardEuler
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Just got back from having a tooth pulled

  • zoobyshoe
  • · Replies 23 ·
Replies
23

Mystery of the Penguin Blowhole: What I Saw at the Aquarium

  • Math Is Hard
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Dinosaur Watching: Reptiles Making Unusual Noises

  • tribdog
  • · Replies 20 ·
Replies
20

Medical Smell affects mating, aggression in mice

  • CosminaPrisma
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

How is excess sodium in the diet linked to obesity

  • Mk
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Gah What's wrong with my ears :*(

  • moose
  • · Replies 35 ·
2
Replies
35

Cancer Drug Scam: Don't Fall for Fake Cures!

  • Nothing000
  • · Replies 28 ·
Replies
28

Medical Find Retinal Image Picture Examples: Possible?

  • Sir_Deenicus
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Gene Mixing and Cloning: The Role of Meiotic Cells in Reproduction

  • kleinwolf
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Early Humans & Blue Blood: Is it True?

  • ___
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10
Replies
4

Evolution & Genetics: Human-Chimp-Fly Comparisons

  • VonWeber
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Study: Recent Selection in Many SNPs

  • selfAdjoint
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Replies
1

Modern thoughts on the origin of organisms.

  • wasteofo2
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Fish Hobbyists: Curing Ich in 10 gal Tank

  • DaveC426913
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14

Protein digestion happens alot in the stomach

  • ambzrose
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Medical Neurostuff: Neural Structure vs A-NNs

  • neurocomp2003
  • · Replies 20 ·
Replies
20

What is the biological definition for survival?

  • JimmyRay
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Dendritic cells and mouse cycle

  • iansmith
  • · Replies 16 ·
Replies
16

At what age do most boys stop growing

  • Teegvin
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Ever wondered what lives in the depths of the ocean?

  • Bladibla
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Native Species from 2 Nonnatives?

  • Cesium
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

I just cut myself and I'm bleeding profusely

  • tribdog
  • · Replies 40 ·
2
Replies
40

Medical What Causes Stuttering: Explained by J. Scott Yaruss

  • CosminaPrisma
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Medical High IQ: Not as good for you as you thought [article]

  • hypnagogue
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10

Medical Children Learn by Monkey See, Monkey Do. Chimps Don't. [article]

  • hypnagogue
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Is it necessary to take a human's wisdom teeth out?

  • pivoxa15
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

New Research Reveals That Thoughts Affect Genes

  • PIT2
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10

Report on subject: synapse and muscle

  • vabamyyr
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Medical Smart Guy Disorder? Symptoms & Causes

  • quasi426
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Insulin & Glucagon: Negative Feedback for Blood Sugar

  • JimmyRay
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Is Human Evolution Responsible for Mathematical Challenges?

  • zoobyshoe
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Skin color gene identified (NYT and Science report)

  • marcus
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Medical Where The Brain Combines What's Heard And Felt

  • CosminaPrisma
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Genetic sourcing for African Americans

  • Loren Booda
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Medical New Antidepressant Drug Increases 'Brain's Own Cannabis' [article]

  • hypnagogue
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Medical Subconscious Nature: Memory, Learning & Inspiration

  • Dawguard
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10

Why flowers smell? what's the reason?

  • En_lizard
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Medical Conversation with Paul Ekman [interview]

  • hypnagogue
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Witnessing a Crash: A Story of Imminent Danger and Heroic Response

  • cronxeh
  • · Replies 17 ·
Replies
17

Sick, Tired, and Uncomfortable: A Night of Coughing and Woes

  • tribdog
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Medical Why Does Joseph R. Ferrari Study Chronic Procrastinators?

  • hypnagogue
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Mt Carmel College of Nursing: Before & After

  • BobG
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10

How does Cyanide block the electron transport system?

  • ambzrose
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

What is the significance of the completed dog genome sequence?

  • iansmith
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Medical Lucid Dreaming: Technique and Difficulty

  • cytokinesis
  • · Replies 46 ·
2
Replies
46

Medical Debunking Mental Health Myths: Separating Facts from Fiction

  • Blahness
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Good Biology books for beginners?

  • pivoxa15
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Medical High Intellect and Mental Health: Real or Quackery?

  • Blahness
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Medical Is it possible to think oneself to death?

  • PIT2
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

News Will Aquaculture Save Us from Worldwide Famine?

  • MaxS
  • · Replies 62 ·
3
Replies
62

Non-canonical versus canonical DNA segment

  • sobored
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Credit to the other nominees and biology

  • DocToxyn
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Why Do We Crave Nutrients and Minerals We Lack?

  • Ivan Seeking
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Medical Are Mice with Human Brain Cells Ethically Acceptable?

  • Ivan Seeking
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1