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With advancements in understanding the sciences and the instruments with which we study it, our collective knowledge of what happens inside ourselves is a work in constant progress that involves the most skilled medical practitioners and researchers. They must remain vigilant for any new details in understanding how our bodies work, as well as how our environment interacts with it. Here, Modern Sciences explores the latest developments in the fields of genetics, human biology, epidemiology, and much more.
How do drugs know where to go in the body? A pharmaceutical scientist explains why some medications are swallowed while others are injected
While pills come in many shapes and sizes, they all eventually reach your bloodstream and travel throughout your…
Decades of research document the detrimental health effects of BPA – an expert on environmental pollution and maternal health explains what it all means
The chemical BPA has been shown to leach from food packaging products into our bodies. Jacobs Stock Photography…
When is a condition ‘chronic’ and when is it a ‘disability’? The definition can determine the support you get
Unsplash, CC BY Elizabeth Kendall, Griffith University; Connie Allen, Griffith University; Kelsey Chapman, Griffith University, and Maretta Mann,…
Making video games can help support addiction recovery
Game jams are powerful spaces for galvanizing creativity in disenfranchised communities. (Shutterstock) Sandra Danilovic, Wilfrid Laurier University The…
When will I be able to upload my brain to a computer?
We don’t know how much information the human brain can store. agsandrew/Shutterstock Guillaume Thierry, Bangor University READER QUESTION:…
‘Food sequencing’ really can help your glucose levels. Here’s what science says about eating salad before carbs
Shutterstock Leonie Heilbronn, University of Adelaide Biochemist and author of the Glucose Revolution Jessie Inchauspé says tweaking your…
Psychedelics: how they act on the brain to relieve depression
The evidence is mounting for the effectiveness of psilocybin in treating depression. Cannabis_Pic/Shutterstock Clare Tweedy, University of Leeds…
‘Masked’ cancer drug stealthily trains immune system to kill tumors while sparing healthy tissues, reducing treatment side effects
Dendritic cells (green) produce cytokines like IL-12, which can train T cells (pink) to attack tumors. Victor Segura…
Monkeypox: ‘This is an entirely new spread of the disease’
Electron micrograph of monkeypox virus particles isolated in 2003 in the United States from human samples (left, mature,…
The Rarest (And Perhaps the Most Unique) Type of Cancer
SciShow returns to give us an important and interesting tale about what was, and maybe still is, the…