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Genetics

Nutrigerontology

Is it really possible to influence the aging process with the help of food? Nutrigerontology deals with these issues.

09.03.2016
Genetics

Advanced microdissection of chromosomes

Scientists from St. Petersburg and Germany have developed a unique method of microdissection of chromosomes. With its help, it became possible to obtain and decipher tiny fragments of DNA.

09.03.2016
Other life sciences

Obesity and colon cancer

American researchers have found out how obesity caused by excessive consumption of fatty foods contributes to the development of colon cancer.

09.03.2016
Genetics

Nutrigenomics

Perhaps nutrigenomics, a new direction in science that studies how food affects gene expression, will help to stop the epidemic of chronic non-communicable diseases (diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases).

09.03.2016
Other life sciences

How Stem Cells Choose their Fate

German scientists have found out the molecular mechanism of self-renewal of stem cells, which allows them to either maintain pluripotency or differentiate into cells of a certain tissue.

09.03.2016
Your health

Esophageal cancer: a new risk factor

In a new study, scientists suggest that bacteria that cause gum disease are a risk factor for esophageal cancer.Bacteria that cause gum disease are linked to esophageal cancer

04.03.2016
Other life sciences

"Passport of the skin"

Russian scientists have developed a system that allows detecting malignant tumors by screening and measuring the clinical parameters of skin neoplasms with sufficiently high accuracy.

04.03.2016
Genetics

The first "graying gene" has been discovered

As a result of genome-wide DNA analysis of a large population of Latin Americans, the first gene responsible for graying was identified, and a number of previously unknown associations of certain gene alleles with the appearance of hair and eyebrows were found.

04.03.2016
Other life sciences

Aging begins before birth

The aging clock starts ticking even before we are born, but its course can be slowed down by providing the developing embryo with sufficient oxygen supply.

04.03.2016
Other life sciences

Microbes are collectivists

Biologists from Duke University have developed a strain of E. coli that can exist under certain conditions only in the form of a dense colony – any bacterium that splits off from the rest almost immediately dies.

04.03.2016
Other life sciences

Virus to virus wolf

Giant viruses have their own parasites, virophages, which themselves contain parasitic genetic elements called transpovirons, bringing the nesting of parasitism to three levels.

03.03.2016
Genetics

Three-dimensional genome

A recent work by Russian researchers highlights the nuances of three-dimensional packing of chromosomes in the somatic and germ cells, emphasizing the conservativeness of this feature of the genome.

03.03.2016
Biomedicine

Virus-like drug stops bacteria

You can get rid of antibiotic–resistant bacteria with a friendly virus - or with a drug that mimics this virus.

02.03.2016
Healthy skepticism

Billions for zero efficiency

One of the results of another large-scale meta-analysis: with the help of homeopathic remedies aimed at the treatment of 68 different diseases, 0 people were cured, and 0 diseases were effectively treated.

02.03.2016
Your health

Forewarned – armed

Young and relatively healthy people, as a rule, do not think about stroke. But in the period from 1995 to 2008, the rate of hospitalizations due to stroke in patients aged 15 to 44 years jumped by 37% (!).

02.03.2016
Other life sciences

Bioinformatics in questions and answers

In this article, the author collected questions about bioinformatics, which he himself asked three years ago, when he was still a student of the Faculty of Mathematics, and tried to answer them.

02.03.2016
Various

A three-handed game

A robotic arm developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology is capable of turning any mediocre drummer into a cyborg supermusic.

01.03.2016