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Your health

Physical education protects against cancer

A high level of physical activity is associated with a reduced risk of developing 13 types of cancer (including 3 of the 4 most common cancers worldwide among men and women).

19.05.2016
Note to the businessman

Perfluorane returns

Oleg Zherebtsov, the founder and former owner of the Lenta retail chain, and now CEO of Solopharm, decided to bring the legendary "blue blood" back to the market.

19.05.2016
Nanotechnology

Flashlights for cancer cells

Photoluminescent nanoparticles made of ultrapure silicon are able to freely penetrate into cells, which allows them to be used in the early diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

19.05.2016
Other life sciences

Intestines on a chip

The HuMiX micro-flow chip simulates the anaerobic conditions in which microorganisms and intestinal epithelial cells exist.

19.05.2016
Nanotechnology

Medicines in gel nanocapsules

An international group of researchers with the participation of physicists from Moscow State University has developed a new type of drug carrier for their targeted delivery – gel nanocapsules with a double shell.

19.05.2016
Other life sciences

Bio-glass for cartilage restoration

Elastic bio-glass has mechanical properties of cartilage tissue and the potential ability to stimulate the growth of cartilage cells, which makes it a promising material for the restoration of articular and intervertebral cartilage.

18.05.2016
Genetic engineering

GMOs have once again been recognized as safe

The main idea of the report of the National Academies of Sciences, Technology and Medicine of the USA was that products from GM crops are not only not harmful, but can be useful for humans.

18.05.2016
Biomedicine

Treat and not cripple

Developed by Siberian scientists, the method of packaging drugs into "cells" of four glycyrrhizic acid molecules makes it possible to reduce the dose of the drug tenfold.

18.05.2016
Other life sciences

A new wound healing mechanism

The mechanism of wound-induced polyploidization consists in increasing the size of existing cells due to the growth of the sets of chromosomes contained in them to three or more.

18.05.2016
Genetics

How young do you look?

Certain variants of the MC1R gene make a person outwardly almost two years older than his real age.

17.05.2016
Grants and competitions

Bio/mol/text – 2016

The main topics of the competition are molecular biology and biophysics, biomedicine and bio- and nanotechnology, as well as stories about the best biological research institutions.

17.05.2016
Genetics

Mammoth genome read in Russia

To read the ancient DNA, scientists used the genetic material of the mammoth Chroma, discovered in Yakutia in 2009.

17.05.2016
Prolonging youth

Clinical studies of geroprotectors

What is interesting about clinical studies of a drug that cures 10 diseases in animals and, perhaps, even able to influence the aging process?

17.05.2016
Prolonging youth

A disease that doesn't exist

In St. Petersburg, within the framework of the conference "Biomedical innovations for healthy longevity", scientists, public figures and journalists exchanged views on the issues of prolonging youth, longevity and the fight against aging.

17.05.2016
Genetics

Genes and education

The effect of each gene corresponds to explains from 0.01 to 0.035% variability on the basis of "duration of training". At the same time, the total effect of all 74 genes is less than the sum of their individual effects.

16.05.2016
Theories of aging

Hoarding is to blame for old age

We age because various imperfections accumulate in the body, which, at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organismal levels, eventually lead to the death of an individual.

16.05.2016
Prolonging youth

Are the effects of aging reversible

Will we be able to reverse the aging process in the future? Recently, there is more and more evidence in favor of the fact that we can.

16.05.2016
Biomedicine

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

A new way to detect beta-amyloid aggregation at an early stage may make the diagnosis and treatment of this neurodegenerative disease much more effective.

16.05.2016
Biomedicine

Nutlin-3 against brittle X chromosome syndrome

The drug, undergoing a phase I clinical trial as a treatment for retinoblastoma, eliminates the manifestations of mental retardation in a mouse model of the brittle X chromosome syndrome.

16.05.2016