Let's kickstart our day with a fun fact, yh? 😌
Your brain named itself.🤯
Think about that for a second 🤔. The human brain is the only organ that named itself. And it decided to call itself "brain"😭😂
Morning subs
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🧠 New human study links gut bacteria to brain chemicals, specifically GABA and glutamate, key for brain function and mental health.

🔬 Researchers found different gut microbial pathways associated with brain chemical levels in specific brain regions, including the visual processing area (inferior occipital gyrus) and regions involved in attention and emotion regulation.

📊 The study also identified associations between gut microbial pathways and self-reported anxiety, depressive symptoms, and sleep quality.

⚠️ Important Note: This study shows associations, not cause and effect, and used genetic potential of microbes rather than directly measured metabolites.

#GutHealth #BrainHealth@edsciencelab

A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.

Venus takes about 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis, but only about 225 Earth days to complete one orbit around the Sun.

Even stranger, Venus rotates in the opposite direction to most planets. If you stood on Venus, the Sun would appear to rise in the west and set in the east.

It’s one of the strangest planetary rotations in our solar system. 🪐

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Tomatoes contain choline, which helps lower blood cholesterol, promotes hemoglobin synthsis and strengthens the immune system.

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You can't cry in space
Without gravity, tears don't fall . They just pool up in your eyes until they get big enough to break free and float away.
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Oh I see🙂

pj win pɛ giveaway!🔥

we win for somewhere else😭🌚

only saints dey that yard🌚😭

😂😂 I'm surprised oh
So the 72 points no how did they get it

That was 1/8th 🤝
Even dumb nigga like me can solve

Interesting

🐘 The elephant brain reacts to people the same way the human brain reacts to puppies - they think we're cute

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🧬 Scientists Just Found a Hidden Layer of the Mammalian Genome

Our genes may be considerably more combinatorial than we realized.

Researchers have discovered that mammalian cells can take pieces of RNA copied from completely different genes — sometimes located on different chromosomes — and splice them together into a single messenger RNA. That hybrid RNA can then be used to manufacture a new protein containing parts encoded by both genes.

Using direct RNA sequencing, the team detected more than 30,000 candidate chimeric RNAs in mouse immune cells and more than 900 in human macrophages. Crucially, they then showed that at least one of these strange hybrids is not biological noise.

In mice, an inflammatory response causes two genes called Gsdmd and Tmem106a to combine into a chimeric RNA. Its resulting hybrid protein helps accelerate pyroptosis — the dramatic process in which infected immune cells rupture and release inflammatory signals. When researchers specifically blocked the hybrid protein, the mice became worse at controlling Salmonella infection. But they were also dramatically more resistant to lethal inflammation in a sepsis model.

Even stranger, inflammation appears to physically reorganize the genome: normally distant chromosome regions move closer together inside the nucleus, helping their RNA transcripts combine.

There is a major caveat. The detailed functional experiments were performed in mice. Similar chimeric RNAs exist in human immune cells, but scientists have not yet established what most of them do. The researchers themselves say it could take years to map their biological importance.

Still, if the phenomenon is widespread, our current catalogue of proteins may be missing an entire class of molecules hiding in combinations of genes we already thought we understood.

We finished sequencing the human genome more than two decades ago.

Apparently, reading the instruction manual was another problem entirely.

#Genetics #Biology #RNA #Genome #Immunology #Biotechnology #Science@edsciencelab

That's cute 🙂

It's been a while 🙂