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Your health

What Russians are dying from

In order to reduce the mortality rate, it is necessary to increase the general well-being of the people, their living conditions. This is the method that has worked in developed countries.

24.11.2015
Other life sciences

Epithelial cells can replace neurons

With the loss of neurons, hydra is able to completely modify its genetic program, as a result of which epithelial cells begin to perform functions unusual for them, compensating for the absence of the nervous system.

24.11.2015
Other life sciences

Smoking at the molecular level

This article is not about the dangers of smoking and ways to get rid of nicotine addiction, but about the mechanism of nicotine addiction.

23.11.2015
Other life sciences

Patient, take a stethoscope!

A tiny microphone encased in a silicone capsule allows you to measure your heart rate and respiratory rate with good accuracy. The device can stay in the patient's body for one or two days.

23.11.2015
Prolonging youth

Natural selection by property qualification

In the face of rapid scientific and technological progress, the super-rich figure out how to stop the aging process and spend serious money in an attempt to avoid death.

23.11.2015
Nanotechnology

Swallow the insulin patch

The developers plan to use tablets with nanoplastics to deliver other drugs that are decomposed by enzymes and acids of the stomach and intestines.

20.11.2015
Your health

Every hypertensive person should know his maneuver

Only 40% of hypertensive patients know about their disease. Of these, 40% take medications. 40% of those who take medications take them correctly and in the right doses. That is, only 6.4% of hypertensive patients receive adequate therapy!

20.11.2015
Other life sciences

New antibiotic resistance gene

Chinese researchers have discovered a gene in E. coli that determines the resistance of organisms to colistin, an antibiotic from the polymyxin group. Sooner or later it will pass to bacteria of other species.

20.11.2015
Genetic engineering

Twenty years later

It took almost as long for the FDA to approve an application filed in 1996 by AquaBounty Technology for permission to eat genetically modified salmon created in the late 1980s.

20.11.2015
Biotechnologies - into life

How will the biotech market develop in Russia

We are gradually entering the age of bioeconomics, which opens up a huge field of possibilities for us: from programming biomolecules and creating functional food products to growing human organs.

20.11.2015
Cellular technologies

Vocal cords from a bioreactor

Scientists from the University of Wisconsin have grown vocal cord tissue from human cells in the laboratory. When tested, the bundles were able to vibrate and generate sound.

20.11.2015
Various

The case of biologically harmful additives

The leaders of an American company were arrested for using hepatotoxic synthetic stimulants in sports supplements, which were promoted on the market as products made from natural ingredients.

20.11.2015
Nanotechnology

Molecular Rocket

The submarine molecule is able to move in a liquid at a dizzying speed - about an inch per second.

20.11.2015
Biomedicine

How to help the Immune system fight cancer

For many years, scientists have been trying to develop effective anti-cancer immunotherapy. There has been notable progress in this area – in particular, by improving drug delivery methods.

19.11.2015
Other life sciences

Is Russia interested in evolution?

The finalist of The Enlightener, Alexander Markov, talks about the revolutionary changes taking place in the theory of evolution, the implicit complexity of life, enlightenment and pessimism about the future of Russia.

19.11.2015
Biomedicine

From cell biology to cell therapy

Two prizes of the Moscow Government for Young scientists in 2014 in the nomination "Biology and Medical Sciences" were awarded for research in the field of cell biology.

19.11.2015
Biomedicine

Noninvasive method of tumor localization

Researchers from Umeå University in Sweden have developed an accurate and simple way to detect and locate cancer by "imprints" of the tumor process in the platelet RNA profile.

19.11.2015