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Your health

Take care of your neurons – drink vodka with fish oil!

One of the omega-3 fatty acids in the "in vitro" experiments protected neurons from damage during chronic exposure to high doses of alcohol. Whether fish oil can slow down mental degradation in alcoholism is unknown, but there will be no harm...

11.09.2013
Biomedicine

Metformin instead of Viagra?

It is possible that the common antidiabetic drug metformin will serve as a cheap and effective means of erectile dysfunction therapy in the future.

11.09.2013
Biomedicine

Diabetes diagnosis: early, fast, accurate

A group of German researchers, together with colleagues from the USA and Finland, proposed a technique that allows, based on a blood test, to diagnose type 1 diabetes long before the disease manifested itself.

11.09.2013
Biomedicine

How new cancer drugs are being created

Alessandro Riva, Head of the Novartis Global Cancer Research and Medical Activities Department, on the development of new treatments for complex forms of cancer.

10.09.2013
Biomedicine

Leptin instead of insulin?

Swiss researchers conducted a series of experiments on rodents deprived of the ability to synthesize insulin, which were injected with leptin, a hormone that regulates energy metabolism and appetite. Thanks to leptin, all animals perfectly tolerated the state of insulin deficiency.

10.09.2013
Genetic engineering

Transgenic goats will help in the treatment of cancer

A herd of descendants of 25-30 transgenic goats obtained by scientists from Brazil and Russia will provide millions of cancer patients with human protein that activates hematopoiesis in the bone marrow.

10.09.2013
Biomedicine

Cancer biomarkers – autoantibodies

This article describes one of the types of biomarkers that have recently been actively developed for the early diagnosis of cancer – biomarkers based on autoantibodies.

09.09.2013
Other life sciences

DNA transistors

Anatoly Sokolov, an employee of Stanford University, together with fellow physicists, developed a method for producing carbon transistors based on DNA strands.

09.09.2013
Biotechnologies - into life

Russian drugs will be no worse and cheaper than imported ones

The first three domestic drugs based on monoclonal antibodies, which will treat cancer of the blood, lymph nodes, mammary glands and lungs, will go on sale next year. Their price will be 30% lower than imported ones.

09.09.2013
New in Gerontology

How mitochondria age

In a young cell, pairs of protein complexes of ATP synthase are located close to each other and, due to this, bend the mitochondrial membrane, forming folds. Over time, there are fewer such pairs, and instead of a complex structure, the membrane turns into a relatively smooth two-layer bubble.

09.09.2013
Other life sciences

You can lose weight with the help of bacteria...

...with one condition: microorganisms that contribute to thinness are able to displace less useful fellows only if a healthy and not excessively high-calorie diet is observed.

06.09.2013