Biology and Medical Forum

Post thread
Join the expert discussion on biology and medical topics. This may include the study of living organisms, molecular, Botany, Micro, Genetics, Ecology.
Methionine and cysteine influence on proteins?
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
2K
Upper Leg Muscles Wasting Due to Lower Leg Stiffness?
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
3K
Do Genes Code for Specific Types of Cells?
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10
Views
2K
How does synaptic pruning happen?
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
2K
Is Human Breastmilk a Viable Alternative to Cow's Milk for Adult Consumption?
  • · Replies 15 ·
Replies
15
Views
5K
Medical Is it possible to improve your reflexes by playing video games?
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
3K
Scientists watch as bacteria evolve antibiotic resistance
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
Will we be eating CRISPy food in the future
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
2K
What is the Significance of Patchwork Viruses in Animals?
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
3K
Medical Xanthen 3 one and its derivatives
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
2K
Medical How does our brain create a summarized/average representation
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7
Views
3K
Medical Medical Immunity (to addiction)....
  • · Replies 17 ·
Replies
17
Views
3K
Can genetic engineering alter an existing phenotype?
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
3K
How long does it take to die from tetanus?
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
4K
Are Chemical Treatments Essential in Handmade Papermaking?
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
2K
Fatty acids in humans and great apes
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7
Views
3K
  • Poll Poll
Is sexual attraction necessary for romantic love?
  • · Replies 44 ·
2
Replies
44
Views
6K
How does a species evolve to have more or less chromosomes?
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10
Views
3K
Medical What is the specialty called for electronic implant surgery?
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9
Views
2K
Preventing Bruises: The Benefits of Using Ice and Medication
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
2K
What's the simplest entity that can have fun?
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10
Views
2K
Gases & Trees: Carbon Dioxide & Oxygen Usage
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
2K
Why can't quantitative values be computed using DSC-MRI?
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
2K
Human evolution -- Neanderthals and Homo Erectus
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
5K
How is the functioning of body organs determined?
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
2K
I want to find a cure for herpes. What should I major in?
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
3K
Are glands in human made of muscles?
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11
Views
3K
Medical Why we think better with closed eyes? What about a blind person?
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10
Views
3K
Medical With eyes closed or in a dream do we see video-like movements?
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12
Views
3K
Gaining Insight into Evolution and Natural Selection
  • · Replies 75 ·
3
Replies
75
Views
11K
Carcinogenic Pet Food: Study Findings & Impact on Pets
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
2K
What is nastic movement due to growth?
  • · Replies 13 ·
Replies
13
Views
3K
What is the effect of temperature on enzymes in poiklotherms
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
2K
Hybridization of Asses & Zebras in Genus Equus
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
Medical What Causes Crohn's Disease and How Can We Understand It?
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11
Views
3K
Is the Bionic Leaf the Future of Photosynthesis and CO2 Reduction?
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
Number of procedural tasks a person can do at one time?
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
2K
How intimately can we observe DNA replication?
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
2K
Where in the brain do we sense our internal organs?
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8
Views
2K
Is the Vaccine-Autism Link a Myth? The Truth Behind Vaccines and Autism
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9
Views
3K
The great basic question of science on origin of life
  • · Replies 31 ·
2
Replies
31
Views
5K
Name for the connection between a receptor and neuron?
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
2K
Nausea from vertigo: an evolutionary by-product?
  • · Replies 17 ·
Replies
17
Views
3K
Aware of being aware neural circuits
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
2K
IMAX 3D vs RealD 3D: Worth It for Azy Eye?
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
2K
Medical Should this person go to the doctor?
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
Exercise ball "chair" for work desk....
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10
Views
4K
Atoms and Cells: Are They Connected?
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
2K
Why white blood cells and red blood cells are destroyed?
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
6K
Why humans are better than Cyanobacteria?
  • · Replies 13 ·
Replies
13
Views
2K
How exactly does cuticular transpiration occur in plants?
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6
Views
5K
Diabetes Mellitus: Are Diabetic Patients Immunocompromised?
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7
Views
3K
Influence of the nervous system on the endocrine system
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7
Views
3K
Bacteriophage Therapy: Alternatives to Antibiotics
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9
Views
3K
Medical Internet as Extended Phenotype: Hello Friends!
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
2K
If we lose our hearing, are afferent nerves still firing?
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12
Views
3K
Is there a link between dream and language?
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
2K
Is reflex considered a function of autonomic nervous system?
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
2K
Can Oocyte Division Occur Without the Contribution of Sperm?
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
2K
Similiarities between sociopath and asperger
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
2K
Difference between cisternae and Dictyosomes
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
3K
Medical Genetic Modification for Plant Floaters
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
2K
Medical Progress on an Alzheimer's vaccine?
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
2K
Medical How did scientists observe metabolic pathways in organisms?
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
2K
Why are mammals as large as they are and not much larger?
  • · Replies 18 ·
Replies
18
Views
4K
What are the lipids on the double membrane of a eukaryote cell's nucleus?
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
2K
Radiation exposure on person effects on it's reproduction
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
What Are Effective Methods to Investigate Gene Downregulation in Cancer?
  • · Replies 0 ·
Replies
0
Views
2K
How can natural selection be true if disease is inherited?
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6
Views
3K
Origin of Mammal Affection: Adaptation or Spandrel?
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
2K
Math Graduate needs "Cancer Biology for Dummies"
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10
Views
7K
Can We Survive Without Sleep and What Makes it So Crucial?
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
3K
Does studying psychology make you crazy?
  • · Replies 27 ·
Replies
27
Views
11K
Medical Is a bug in FMRI software causing decades of brain research to be invalidated?
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
2K
Are Artificial Sweeteners Changing Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways?
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
1K
Is implicit memory an "instinct"?
  • · Replies 27 ·
Replies
27
Views
5K
Are chemical messages between proteins intermolecular forces
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
2K
Stress hormones and limbic system?
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10
Views
3K
Medical What is the Actual Difference Between Feelings and Emotions?
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9
Views
5K
Medical What happens if you drink only coca cola or soft drinks?
  • · Replies 29 ·
Replies
29
Views
7K
Creating a Solution to False Medicine in Africa
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11
Views
2K
What Are the Taxonomic Classifications of Algae?
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
2K
Can Neurons Truly Explain the Experience of Red and Other Qualia?
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
2K
Where in the mind is the seat of dreaming?
  • · Replies 45 ·
2
Replies
45
Views
6K
Understanding the Impact of Myopia: Heritability and Evolution in Human Eyesight
  • · Replies 16 ·
Replies
16
Views
2K
Brain Scans Reveal How LSD Affects Consciousness & Ego Dissolution
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
3K
Psychoactive drugs for "expansion of consciousness"
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14
Views
4K
What is the latest research on humans and magnetoreception?
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
4K
Can CRISPR turn a dog into a cat (not at embryo stage)?
  • · Replies 13 ·
Replies
13
Views
7K
Medical What are the challenges of creating synthetic human genomes?
  • · Replies 22 ·
Replies
22
Views
6K
Does nature favour cool computations? News from SFI
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6
Views
3K
Medical New Research: Benefits of Omega-3 for General Health
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
Medical Telemedicine Kiosks in the Workplace
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
1K
Medical Electron Acceleration and X-Ray Emission in X-Ray Machines
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
2K
This dog seems to want to sing, why?
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6
Views
2K
Implications of life being found or not found on Europa
  • · Replies 114 ·
4
Replies
114
Views
15K
How many neurons fire in an eye blink?
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9
Views
5K
What is the relationship between locus, alleles, and genes in chromosomes?
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
Molecules that are not part of life?
  • · Replies 19 ·
Replies
19
Views
3K
Single-base changes, or singletons?
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8
Views
2K