A chamber that cures diseases including cancer featured in the sci-fi film Elysium (credit – Columbia Pictures, 2013)
In the recent scifi Elysium there are wonder-chambers that scan the human body and remove all the cancer cells and diseases and thus keep a person immortal.… Read the rest
A coral reef, Papua New Guinea (photo by Brocken Inaglory, via Wikimedia Commons)
We often hear about the climate change and the never-ending discussion of it keeps making headlines in the media. There seem to be a consensus amongst climatologists – average atmospheric temperatures have been rising in the past several decades and the Arctic ice cap reducing.… Read the rest
Endomembrane system in our cells. Vesicles carrying cargo molecules move between different cell compartments. (by Mariana Ruiz LadyofHats [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)
Most of our cells are just micrometers in size but they contain millions of molecules, some are small as glucose, others – colossal in size as large proteins and nucleic acids.… Read the rest
a scheme of the flow of genetic information according to the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology (via Wikimedia commons)
I often see searches within my blog about the basics of molecular genetics, DNA, etc. So I decided to talk about the molecular ‘brain’ of the fundamental biological entity called cell.… Read the rest
The alternative cover for my new speculative fiction novel – Made In Bionia
As a scientist I have always been more interested in the fate of our planet rather than the mankind. When I was a child I wanted to be an inventor, so the machines would do the job with more efficiency and less pollution.… Read the rest
Colourful section of a brain. Someone was definitely bright 🙂 (By Wei-Chung Allen Lee, Hayden Huang, Guoping Feng, Joshua R. Sanes, Emery N. Brown, Peter T. So, Elly Nedivi [CC-BY-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons)
A curious study has just been published describing research on cellular proteins involved in sustaining brain memory.… Read the rest
Infinity Rally by David Gerstein, via Wikimedia Commons
If it still expands after the Big Bang as we are told by astrophysicist then – where to? Have you ever considered than there might be just another Universe like ours inside the tiniest particle we have yet to discover, let’s name it cutely – gravittino.… Read the rest