Theories of aging
Evolution doesn't need "longevity genes"
Interview with chemist Mikhail Shchepinov about the phenomenon of aging, theories explaining this process, and the goals of evolution.
23.06.2015- English version
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Your health
Careful, fructose!
In addition to rapid deposition in the form of adipose tissue, fructose triggers uncontrolled growth of the heart muscle, and its excessive consumption can eventually lead to fatal heart failure.
23.06.2015
Innovative Russia
How "Himrar" became one of the main conductors of pharmaceutical innovations for Russia
A relatively small company does not have blockbusters blowing up the market yet, but the way its owners manage to find billions for their development, including in the public purse, is almost a blockbuster in itself.
23.06.2015
Genetics
Why does DNA need a fifth letter?
Geneticists have found in the DNA of mice a special subspecies of one of the four "letters"-nucleotides, which plays a special regulatory role in the work of the genes in which it is contained, and claims to be the fifth member of the genetic alphabet.
23.06.2015
Various
We have paper everywhere for the elderly
The Russian population is aging, and the government is increasingly liking the concept of active longevity, which is popular in the West. At least on paper – in real life, an archaic healthcare system and an extremely inefficient bureaucracy interfere.
23.06.2015
Other life sciences
Solar storms hit joints and blood vessels
Scientists have found that there is a statistically significant relationship between the spread of rheumatoid arthritis, giant cell arteritis and cycles of solar activity.
23.06.2015
Other life sciences
For the first time on the screen: the deadly battle of a leukocyte with a microbe
A group of Australian scientists made a high-quality video recording of the death of a leukocyte, whose cell, being destroyed as a result of the fight against infection, releases proteins of a certain type and the remnants of its contents into the environment.
22.06.2015
Theories of aging
The unsolved mystery of centenarians
Despite the increasing intensity of the search for the causes of longevity every year, the researchers have not found an answer to the question "Why do some people live 115 or even 120 years?".
22.06.2015
Various
The Complete Oncological Encyclopedia
The Atlas of Modern Oncology presents the latest achievements in the field of cancer treatment and prevention, as well as statistics and the spread of cancer diseases worldwide.
22.06.2015
Genetics
Heredity versus environment
A large–scale meta–analysis (for 14.5 million pairs of twins) showed that, on average, each trait or disorder is caused by genes and environment approximately equally (49% of the variability is due to genes, about 51% is due to environment and/or measurement errors).
22.06.2015
Various
A micro robot with delicate tentacles
With the help of silicone manipulators, tiny medical robots will be able to work with the thinnest and most fragile parts of the human body without deforming them or causing any damage to them.
22.06.2015
Note to the businessman
St. Petersburg Pharmaceutical cluster: good, but not enough
The desire to participate in public procurement forces foreign pharmaceutical giants to enter the St. Petersburg market. But it still won't help to achieve the import substitution target set by the government, experts say.
22.06.2015
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology in medicine: Part 1
Modern knowledge about the behavior of materials at the "nano" level is compared with the tip of the iceberg and the embryonic stage. Active research in this area is only a few decades old.
20.06.2015
Prolonging youth
Fast for your health
A regular five-day diet, imitating fasting, not only significantly reduces the likelihood of cancer, diabetes and other diseases, but also prolongs life.
19.06.2015
Healthy skepticism
Popularization of science is the best medicine against obscurantism
Alexander Sokolov, creator and editor of the scientific and educational portal "Anthropogenesis.<url>", author of the book "Myths about Human Evolution" – about how to effectively combat pseudoscientific theories.
19.06.2015
Biomedicine
The next HIV vaccine was tested on animals
Virologists have taken a big step towards creating a "vaccination" against HIV, successfully teaching the body of mice, rabbits and some species of monkeys to produce antibodies capable of neutralizing a large number of different strains of the immunodeficiency virus.
19.06.2015
Various
Adoption at the stage of several dozen cells
Unused embryos are a common "by–product" of in vitro fertilization procedures. Currently, several organizations in the United States are trying to introduce the practice of "adoption into the family" of such embryos.
19.06.2015
Other life sciences
The age of parents and the risk of autism in children
The results of the largest study showed that a large age difference between parents increases the risk of developing autism in children, and confirmed the fact that the older the parents, the higher the risk of having a child with autism.
19.06.2015
Various
Save from leukemia
In some cases, the only way to save is bone marrow transplantation, but there are only 35 thousand donors in Russia. In Germany, for comparison, six million.
19.06.2015
Other life sciences
On the way to telepathy
Further development of the ‘Brain-to-Text’ technology can be the first step towards creating systems of mental control of computers and other equipment, new technologies of communication between people and much more.
19.06.2015