Vitamin A may play a central role in stem cell biology and wound repair

This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content’s credibility: fact-checked trusted source proofread Ok! Hair follicle stem cells (green) mobilize and expand (white) to help repair the skin’s barrier by differentiating into epidermal lineages (red). Credit: Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of … Read more

Shattering the Silence: Paving the path for cardiovascular wellness and diabetes care through the lens of Indian women

This International Women’s Day, let’s give the most valuable asset and yet the most overlooked, ignored, and neglected facet of her life—health—to women. The gift of good health is not a miracle but a scientific, evidence-based, and holistic approach to women’s health, taking into cognisance several societal factors, gendered biases, and unique risk factors that … Read more

The direction of theta and alpha travelling waves modulates human memory processing

Ermentrout, G. B. & Kleinfeld, D. Traveling electrical waves in cortex: insights from phase dynamics and speculation on a computational role. Neuron 29, 33–44 (2001). Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Muller, L., Chavane, Frédéric, Reynolds, J. & Sejnowski, T. J. Cortical travelling waves: mechanisms and computational principles. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 19, 255–268 (2018). Article  CAS  … Read more

7 Covid Mysteries Scientists are Starting to Unravel

When the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, nearly everything about the novel coronavirus was an open question: How was it spreading so quickly? How sick would it make people? Would a single bout buy you protection from future cases? In the four years since, scientists have unraveled some of … Read more

Exclusive: US prepared ‘rigorously’ for potential Russian nuclear strike in Ukraine in late 2022, officials say

CNN  —  In late 2022, the US began “preparing rigorously” for Russia potentially striking Ukraine with a nuclear weapon, in what would have been the first nuclear attack in war since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki nearly eighty years before, two senior administration officials told CNN. The Biden administration was specifically concerned Russia might use a … Read more