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New in Gerontology

Aging options: a slice of the evolutionary tree

Getting old is not necessarily becoming decrepit and waiting for the last breath. Scientists have found animals that only get stronger with age and can be considered immortal.

09.12.2013
Your health

Should genetic testing be banned at home?

Scott Diehl, a long-time opponent of the use of genetic tests, director of the Center for Pharmacogenomics and the Study of Complex Diseases at Rutgers University, is confident that the FDA's decision to ban the 23andMe genetic test is justified.

09.12.2013
Innovative Russia

Zvorykin Prize – 2013: results

The main event of the All-Russian Innovation Convention was the summing up of the competition of youth innovative projects "Zvorykin Prize". Experts identified five laureates who received 1 million rubles each for the implementation of their developments.

09.12.2013
Your health

Masturbation Rehabilitation

Masturbation protects the genitourinary system from cancer and infectious diseases, and also, perhaps, normalizes the work of the immune system – unless, of course, you engage in it with manic obsession.

06.12.2013
Other life sciences

Human evolution: the more we know…

The new success of geneticists – deciphering the mitochondrial DNA of a hominin that lived on the territory of present–day Spain 300-400 thousand years ago - further confused the human pedigree.

06.12.2013
Other life sciences

Man and his microbes: we are together!

In the body of an adult, on average, there are ten times more bacteria than our own cells. In fact, bacteria form a full-fledged organ in our body.

06.12.2013
Cellular technologies

Transdifferentiation – direct reprogramming of cells

Some cells can be transformed into others without an intermediate stage in the form of induced stem cells, simply by turning on the synthesis of one of the regulatory proteins that monitor the activity of genes.

06.12.2013
Your health

Scientists have refuted a big and fat misconception

The idea that being overweight can be good for health is a misconception, Canadian scientists have found. Obesity is dangerous even in cases where cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar are within the normal range.

05.12.2013
Healthy skepticism

Sheathe your underpants with lead!

The Fukushima accident will undoubtedly contribute to the sales of anti-radioactive wetsuits that protect the most important thing with a lead insert that holds gamma rays, and less important parts of the body, except the face, from beta rays.

04.12.2013
Biomedicine

Caries prevention: eat candy!

The amount of Streptococcus mutans, one of the main "corroders" of tooth enamel, fell in the oral cavity of volunteers who ate several sweets daily with Lactobacillus ragasei bacteria killed by heating.

04.12.2013
Biotechnologies - into life

Clinical studies of breast cancer cell therapy

On Monday, clinical trials of a breast cancer treatment method developed in Tomsk began at the Research Institute of Clinical Immunology in Novosibirsk.

04.12.2013
Biomedicine

The end of the AIDS pandemic?

The newly developed synthetic molecules inhibit the release of HIV genetic material from the nucleus of an infected cell into the cytoplasm, thus, virus replication is blocked and avoids infection of other cells.

04.12.2013
New in Gerontology

Cell aging is the biggest risk factor for cancer

In old age, the cause of the development of malignant tumors may be not so much mutations as the loss of aging cells of the mechanism that causes them to stop dividing.

04.12.2013
Other life sciences

Cardiomyocytes recover, only slowly and low

A few years ago, the regenerative capacity of the mammalian heart was considered almost zero. However, scientists now know that heart muscle cells are constantly regenerating, albeit at a very low rate: only one to four percent of cells are replaced in the heart muscle every year.

03.12.2013
Other life sciences

Separate collection of mitochondrial debris

For more economical and efficient use of mitochondria, cells collect damaged mitochondrial proteins in a single mitochondria, which is then sent for disposal.

03.12.2013