There are clear scientific evidences that the brain processes
numerous stimuli perceived in an unconscious way.
In fact, much of our behavior, our thoughts, and our actions
are determined by this kind of subliminal information.
A recent study, published in the 'Biological Psychology' journal
by researchers of the Health Institute Carlos III
and lecturers of the Complutense University,
shows that our brains process subliminal language
also detecting syntactic errors.
This information unconsciously perceived affects
the processing of consciously perceived language.
The study was based on the reading of a sentence on a computer screen
where correct and incorrect adjectives were subliminally inserted.
Participants corrected irregularities without perceiving them consciously.
This proves brains perceive and process grammatical errors
even if we are not aware of it.
Therefore, language is really some sort of human instinct
we widely employ,even without knowing.
A 38-year-old Bulgarian man with a spinal cord injury
that paralyzed him from the chest down
recovers mobility with a pluripotent cells treatment.
He has responded well to a treatment
with cells from the olfactory ensheathing glia, OEG,
and has recovered mobility.
According to 'Cell Transportation Journal'
the technique involves transplanting, above and below the patient's injury,
these cells, in the nasal cavity and olfatory nerve fibroplasts
that would help shape the bundle of nerve fibers
to rebuild and connect the two sections of nerves damaged in the backbone.
The patient, after a 19-month treatment,
partially recovered voluntary movement
and some feeling of his legs,
to the extent that he has ventured to drive more independently.
According to the authors,
this could be a huge win in the fight against backbone injuries.
However, caution is requested.
Take note:
an attosecond is a millionth part of a millionth part of a second.
Scientists of the Autonomous University of Madrid
with others from Italy and the UK
have just published in the prestigious 'Science'
the first experimental proof
of ultrafast migration of electronic charge in a biological interest molecule,
the amino acid phenylalanine,
one of the ten essentials for life.
That charge migration was induced by light pulses lasting attoseconds
and detected illuminating the molecule with a second light pulse attoseconds later.
Measurement results indicate that the charge migration
from one molecular extreme to the other
does not last more than three or four femtoseconds.
A femtosecond is equal to 1,000 attoseconds.
The charge migration that precedes any structural reorganization
of the molecules is the basis of numerous biological processes.
This is the first contribution to the field of attobiology.
For Madri+d and Uned Television, José Antonio López Guerrero.