Some neurons, which are sensitive for the amount of glucose in blood, appears to play an important roll in the cause of Diabetes mellitus type 2 (adult-onset diabetes). These neurons become active when more glucose appears in the blood, which causes an increase in sugar-uptake. If these neurons are made insensitive, artificially, for glucose, diabetes […]

Meth, crystal meth, speed, ice, crank, tweek/tweak, glass, uppers, yaba, shabu shabu. Just some synonyms for the drug methamphetamine. After seeing the documentary on National Geographic about meth, I got interested in the way the drug works and effects the body. The results of use are, although the process is slow, disasterious, both on inside […]

Mosquitoes do not bite everyone; some people are more prone to get bitten, while others are not interesting for mosquitoes. A general saying is that the bitten people are more delicious. Of course, this is ridiculous. Researchers have found specific cells in one of the three organs that make up the mosquitoes nose tuned to […]

Directly after a new experience, the brain of a rat plays the new experience backwards. Most likely this rewind-mechanism is being done to record the memory. The discovery has been done by rats while the activity of the brain cells in the hippocampus was been followed constantly. The experiment set-up is an old and famous […]

Coffee contains several compounds which are known to affect human body chemistry. For instance caffeine, which acts as a stimulant. The word caffeine is also called guaranine when found in guarana, mateine when found in mate, and theine when found in tea; all these names are considered chemical synonyms for the same chemical compound. Caffeine […]