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Biomedicine

Diagnosis of diseases by saliva: details and comments

Every day, the technologies of laboratory and functional diagnostics are supplemented with new techniques that allow you to quickly detect diseases at an early stage. Perhaps, in the future, people will be tested not for blood, but saliva.

16.04.2008
Biotechnologies - into life

At the membrane level

The Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been working on membrane proteins since the mid-1970s. During the years of perestroika, most of the scientific groups actually broke up. And only in the laboratory of structural biology, the work related to membrane proteins, despite all the difficulties, continued.

16.04.2008
Healthy skepticism

Eight and a half reasons NOT to be a vegetarian. Part 1

At the very end of the discussion, after the material "Vegetarianism is not a lifestyle, but a mistake of nature", I was asked to comment on "10 reasons to be a vegetarian". No problem – let's figure it out.

16.04.2008
Bioethics

Doctors will be offered amulets

Every year there is less and less pharmacoeconomics at the symposium, and propagandists of poorly proven technologies are lining up under the slogans of "evidence-based medicine". Visitors of the congress are invited to purchase various amulets, zirconium bracelets and other occult accessories, of which more and more appear on the stands every year.

15.04.2008
Biomedicine

Vaccination saves lives

Scientists were faced with the task of creating an effective vaccine against the human papillomavirus, and therefore against cervical cancer. And they were created: Gardasil quadrivalent vaccine and GlaxoSmithKline bivalent candidate vaccine.

15.04.2008
Biotechnologies - into life

PHARMA-2020. Shaping the future of the pharmaceutical industry

Currently, the global pharmaceutical industry has reached a precedent level of changes. And the future belongs to those pharmaceutical companies that will learn to save money: first of all, the patient, and secondly, their own

15.04.2008
Other life sciences

The kitchen river grows greens and fish for the table

In the aquarium "Local River" everything should be balanced in such a way that both fish and vegetables are good. And the owner of the Local River, too: he will be able to produce food for himself right on the kitchen table. In what quantity is another question.

15.04.2008
Cellular technologies

The reference cell

The attitude of the resolving organs to the problem of stem cells is cautious. But it will be so only until the moment when there is no serious breakthrough in stem cell research associated with the real success of new treatment methods.

14.04.2008
Healthy skepticism

Political science: Why cabbage is healthier than apples

Cabbage is much more useful for our deputy than apples. It is necessary for a deputy to chop it properly, so his well-being improves dramatically. However, Russian nutritionists advise Ukrainians to refrain from focusing on Brussels sprouts – this can cause allergies and even problems with gases.

14.04.2008
Cellular technologies

How to turn normal cells into cancer stem cells

Upon activation of the transcription program characteristic of embryonic stem cells, adult differentiated cells may acquire the pathological ability to self-renew characteristic of cancer stem cells.

11.04.2008
Other life sciences

Genetic map of the brain

Scientists from the Allen Institute of Brain Science in Seattle are going to create a three-dimensional map of the human brain, which shows the activity of 20 thousand genes.

11.04.2008
Other life sciences

Evolution on a chip

Researchers have created an installation that is controlled by an autonomous computer and is able to direct the evolution of so-called RNA enzymes – catalysts of biological processes based on RNA – without human intervention.

09.04.2008
Your health

Energy drinks: to drink or not to drink?

Recently, the noise around the "power engineers" has intensified in connection with court proceedings over several deaths allegedly related to their use. Let's try to figure out what energy drinks really are.

09.04.2008
Your health

Diets don't work?

Dieters usually lose 5-10% of their original weight in the first six months, but 30-60% of them gain more weight after dieting than they lost within four to five years. And in reality, the picture can be even scarier.

09.04.2008
Biomedicine

Ahead of the whole planet

Russia will become the first country in the world to sell a cancer vaccine. A small pharmacological company Antigenics announced on Tuesday that Russian regulatory authorities have approved Oncophage for sale.

09.04.2008
Other life sciences

Dear germ

After the chromosomes of hundreds of species of individual bacteria were deciphered, a new approach appeared in the genetics of microorganisms – the population approach. Of course, the population of the "human bioreactor" turned out to be one of the most important for the study of microbial populations.

08.04.2008
Other life sciences

They are alive and glowing

It is simply impossible to list everything that genetic lighting engineers have done in some ten years. Maybe while this issue of the magazine is being prepared for publication, we will learn about another living and glowing miracle.

08.04.2008