Researchers studying the melanocortin-4 receptor or MC4R gene discovered that some people with mutations in this gene become obese yet remain unexpectedly protected from high […]
Author Archives: Ethan Hoffmann
Pelage Raises $120M to Advance Its Hair Loss Reversal Topical Drug
Pelage Pharmaceuticals announced on 15 October 2025 that it had secured a Series B financing round worth 120 million U.S. dollars. The company plans to […]
Experts Weigh if Calling COVID-19 an Airborne AIDS is Reasonable
A global team of experts headed by scientists Yaneer Bam-Yam and Andrew G. Ewing revisited the long-term consequences of COVID-19 with renewed urgency as emerging […]
Tiny Heat-Generating Flakes Target Cancer When Exposed to LED Light
A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Portugal and the United States has turned an ordinary tin compound into a surprising new tool against cancer. Their […]
Mitomeiosis: Scientists Made Human Egg Cells From Skin Cells
Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University have engineered a striking proof of concept. They were able to convert human skin cell nuclei into functional […]
The Colonial Theory of Multicellular Life
German biologist Ernst Haeckel proposed the colonial theory of multicellular life in 1874. He suggested that ancestral metazoans or earlier animals originated from the symbiosis […]
Evolution to Multicellular Animal Life Due to Single Mutation
The evolution to multicellular animal life was a product of a biological phenomenon that happened 600 million years ago. A study published in the open-access […]
Ortho-K: Advantages and Disadvantages of Orthokeratology
Orthokeratology or Ortho-K is a non-surgical method for correcting refractive errors in vision like nearsightedness or myopia, astigmatism, and even farsightedness or hyperopia to a […]
Cat Study Reveals Potential Treatment for Long COVID
Long COVID is real. Tens of thousands of scientific publications have investigated its biological mechanisms and global prevalence. Other research has focused on describing its […]
Nobel-Winning Discovery: Explaining Peripheral Immune Tolerance
The separate but related research of Japanese immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi and American immunologists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell uncovered the complex mechanisms that enable the […]