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Bioethics

When the medicine is more bitter than the disease

Chemotherapy in patients at the terminal stage of cancer, as a rule, is not justified, because they do not live longer than those who refused treatment, while experiencing more severe torment.

14.03.2014
Biomedicine

Fecal therapy has been started in Novosibirsk

For the first time in Russia, the Center for New Medical Technologies of the Novosibirsk Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences began to use a newly appeared method of therapy – fecal transplantation

14.03.2014
Exhibitions and conferences

Biotechnology – 2014: details

Press release of the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Biotechnology and quality of Life" and the XII International Specialized Exhibition "World of Biotechnology 2014".

14.03.2014
Genetics

Genome-wide sequencing: beware of mistakes!

Existing technologies of genome-wide DNA sequencing, with all their perfection, still do not accurately read some genes that may be related to a particular disease.

13.03.2014
Biomedicine

Progress in stroke treatment?

Consisting of five amino acids, the peptide increases the time required to combat the effects of an ischemic stroke to four hours from the moment the artery is blocked.

13.03.2014
Genetics

IRX3 – the main regulator of "obesity genes"?

The IRX3 gene controls body weight and determines the composition of its tissues. This gene is a "switch" that controls the operation of several genetic "programs" in cells at once, scientists from the University of Chicago found out.

13.03.2014
Genetic engineering

Anti-cancer viruses

German scientists have developed several variants of a genetically modified measles virus that attack cancer cells without harming healthy tissues.

13.03.2014
Various

Medicines in Russian

Why are good and high-quality medicines sold in Europe and the USA, but this is not the case in Russia? How do outdated or inactive drugs get into the Russian pharmaceutical market and, accordingly, into pharmacies and clinics?

12.03.2014
Biomedicine

Blood test predicts risk of Alzheimer's disease

For the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, it is proposed to use lipids of the membrane of nerve cells, which after the death of neurons enter the blood. By changing their blood levels, future cognitive impairments can be predicted.

12.03.2014
Other life sciences

Gemini in Space

NASA plans to send one of the identical twins to the ISS in order to fully assess the impact of space flight on the human body at the molecular, physiological and psychological level.

12.03.2014
Biomedicine

The cure for senile sclerosis

Some forms of age-related memory disorders can be cured with gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor blockers.

12.03.2014
Your health

What is more dangerous: GMO or DGMO?

Although they don't wave their fists after a fight (a broadcast of the Mir TV channel), the author who participated in it considers it necessary to summarize what he knows about safe nutrition and the information space around him.

11.03.2014
Biomedicine

HIV protection and contraceptive in one ring

New vaginal rings with an antiretroviral drug allow you to kill two birds with one stone at once – to avoid unwanted pregnancy and avoid HIV infection.

07.03.2014
Prolonging youth

Train, Grandma!

To stay in shape, older women need to regularly practice strength exercises, reinforcing them, like real athletes, with meat food.

07.03.2014
Cellular technologies

Cardiomyocytes from ESCs: the main thing is the right substrate

A group of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison obtained a pure population of cardiomyocytes from human embryonic stem cells. A substrate with a system of channels of a certain size played a decisive role in this success.

06.03.2014