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Nanotechnology

Stars for Oncology

Inexpensive and non-toxic gold nanostars will make it possible to effectively diagnose cancer in the early stages and to burn out the affected cells point-by-point.

14.09.2017
Your health

Another danger of toxoplasmosis

Toxoplasma infection is associated with an increased risk of developing epilepsy, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, and certain types of brain cancer.

14.09.2017
Your health

Who benefits from vegetarianism

The effectiveness of a plant-based diet can be predicted by the ratio of Prevotella bacteria to bacteroids in the human intestinal microbiota.

13.09.2017
Genetics

You can't draw a portrait based on DNA

Detective leitmotif: DNA analysis from the crime scene allows you to instantly identify the perpetrator. How far is it really from reality?

13.09.2017
Your health

Get off the couch!

It is not the sedentary lifestyle itself that is dangerous, but the absence of regular "warm-ups" once every half hour or more often, regardless of the number of sports.

13.09.2017
Genetics

Northern genes

Versions of genes that help to survive in the conditions of the Far North will reveal the roots of diseases associated with metabolic disorders.

13.09.2017
Various

Sausage at 2.20

Those who yearn for Soviet quality products either did not eat like ordinary people, or simply do not understand what Soviet products are.

13.09.2017
New in Gerontology

Programmed aging

Scottish geneticists have found in human DNA a kind of "program" of brain aging that controls its development throughout life.

12.09.2017
Your health

He was treated

Chronic cyanide intoxication was received by an elderly Briton who had been using apricot kernel extract daily for five years.

12.09.2017
Biomedicine

Melanoma: targeted and immunotherapy

Researchers from Australia have discovered a new combination of treatments that can stop the world's deadliest form of skin cancer.

12.09.2017
Your health

Choose one thing

Many vaping users do not stop smoking regular cigarettes. This increases the unpleasant consequences of tobacco use: coughing, wheezing and sputum production.

12.09.2017
Other life sciences

Beta-amyloid in high resolution

A group of German scientists published the structure of the β-amyloid fibrillae – the main component of amyloid plaques – with a resolution of 0.4 nm.

12.09.2017
Other life sciences

Treatment of alcoholism: a new target

Scientists hope that the discovery of the molecular pathway of alcohol addiction formation will allow developing new methods of its treatment.

12.09.2017
Cellular technologies

Measure it seven times

If the results obtained by Mitalipov's group are really contradictory, then such manipulations seem extremely risky.

12.09.2017
Healthy skepticism

Scientists criticized the "DNA portrait"

Craig Venter's statements about the possibility of reconstructing a person's face from small mutations in his DNA do not correspond to reality

11.09.2017
Cellular technologies

Direct reprogramming

Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis were able to turn skin cells taken from healthy adults directly into motor neurons

11.09.2017
Your health

The Kremlin Diet

It is dangerous even for absolutely healthy people, since large amounts of protein and fats can provoke diseases of the liver, kidneys, stomach, intestines.

11.09.2017
Cellular technologies

The third is not superfluous

Recently, the news flew around the world: the first "child from three parents" was born. Why do we need this technology, and is this the first child with a third parent?

11.09.2017
Nanotechnology

Magnetotactic bacteria

Microbes accumulating particles of iron compounds in the cytoplasm were "armed" with liposomes with an antitumor drug and sent to the center of the tumor.

11.09.2017