What is Synthetic Biology: Synthetic biology is a new interdisciplinary area that involves the application of engineering principles to biology. It aims at the (re-)design and fabrication of biological components and systems that do not already exist in the natural world. …

The completion of Human Genome Project in 2003 has helped to identify genes associated with many genetic diseases. As a result, scientists were able to develop genetic testing which could confirm a diagnosis or a carrier state of the disease or predict future illness or even a response to therapy…

After the end of my research at ETH in Zurich, I had the possibility of flying to Cambridge to be part of three days conferences at Cambridge University. We had amazing speakers and professors who discussed their work and experience in their field. I learnt many personal lessons. …

86400 not only are the seconds in a day, but also they are the amount of dollars space agencies invest in feeding one astronaut every week. It’s as if space agencies would buy a house every week that accidentally disappears when you buy it. In this article, we will talk…

Imagine you have to understand just one element that can make you walk, talk, watch and do any other activity you could ever imagine. What would that single element be? Proteins are what makes you alive. Almost any activity in your body is linked to it. Proteins could be a…

Carlos Mirabelli was a Brazilian physical medium and spiritualist from Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was pretty well-known for his ability to perform various seemingly supernatural feats, such as levitation and telekinesis. Mirabelli showed his most impressive ability in 1926. In 1926, Mirabelli was about to board a train travelling from…

Imagine if you come back from a journey with all your luggage locked. Unfortunately, you lost your keys, and you should find their copy out of 100 of them saved into a box. That activity would require hours and would be boring to do. Imagine if you don’t remember a…

Erwin Schroedinger was a physicist that made several attempts to construct a unified field theory of our universe. He is famous for a book called “What is Life?” where he described the problems of genetics, looking at the phenomenon of life from the point of view of physics.

Every day any of us does some activities that can cause some damages. Some of them are slight, and people notice those after years and years, and that what happens with ageing; others are speedy and acute, such as what happens with car accidents or other types of injuries. In…