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Heart with wireless charging

The world's first operation to implant a mechanical heart pump charged from a wireless network was successful.

14.02.2019
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Useful grandmothers

Finnish and Swedish scientists have once again confirmed the "hypothesis of grandmothers," according to two articles published in Current Biology.

14.02.2019
Your health

All the same

Devices for heating tobacco are not more harmless than ordinary cigarettes. And vapes are no better, although perhaps they help to quit smoking.

14.02.2019
Genetics

DNA is not a verdict

An excerpt from Stephen Heine's book is about how to understand the results of genetic tests and news about the genes of thinness, depression, crime.

13.02.2019
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Immunity Switch

microRNA-142 controls T cells regulating the immune response, thereby preventing autoimmune diseases.

13.02.2019
Your health

How sleep helps to recover

In a dream, the body "reprograms" immune cells, forcing them to fight infection more actively.

13.02.2019
Healthy skepticism

Israeli scientists "put to shame" British

The author summarizes the article about an almost ready-made cancer cure as follows: "the word "nonsense" completely exhausts the sensation."

13.02.2019
Other life sciences

Anti-stroke protein

The researchers hope that their discovery will form the basis of a drug that will help combat the negative consequences of stroke.

13.02.2019
Innovative Russia

Rebuff to outflow

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Georgy Georgiev – about possible ways to stop the "brain drain" from the most popular areas of Russian science.

13.02.2019
Other life sciences

Choose who you want

Russian molecular biologists compared the performance of two of the most popular extracellular DNA analysis systems, DSPVK and CNAK.

12.02.2019
New in Gerontology

Harmful old ladies

Mobile elements awakened in the DNA of old cells activate antiviral protection with accompanying inflammatory signals.

12.02.2019
New in Gerontology

Running from dementia

During physical activity, the peptide hormone irisin is released into the blood, stimulating the growth of neurons in the hippocampus.

12.02.2019
Various

Plus 22 years

Compared with 1950, the infant mortality rate has decreased sevenfold, and the average life expectancy has increased by two decades.

12.02.2019
Exhibitions and conferences

The Fourth AI Conference

On April 9, Smile-Expo will hold a conference in Moscow for entrepreneurs on the use of artificial intelligence in business.

12.02.2019
Theories of aging

What Worms Know about Aging

A unified model of metabolic flow in the worm C.elegans allowed us to study the relationship between metabolism and aging processes.

11.02.2019
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The Secret of rheumatoid arthritis

Activation of AMP-dependent kinase in T-helpers helps to cope with joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis.

11.02.2019
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Escort service

Another mechanism of involuntary help to cancer from the immune system: an escort of neutrophils helps cancer cells to metastasize.

11.02.2019
Your health

Small, but a risk

Breast implants increase the chances of developing a rare type of lymphoma that affects several hundred women a year.

11.02.2019
Other life sciences

Regeneration of fingers

Researchers have discovered two proteins that may partially stimulate the growth of amputated fingers in mice.

11.02.2019