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Your health

Obesity is contagious. But only psychologically

You can "get infected" with obesity – but only the agent of the disease here will not be a virus or a bacterium, but the social norms of our environment that force us to eat a lot and harmfully.

09.01.2014
Your health

They don't lose weight from sex

Do not overestimate the energy expenditure on sex: if you really want to lose a couple of kilograms, then it's better to work on a treadmill for a month.

09.01.2014
Your health

Half a century of anti-smoking

About 8 million lives have been saved over 50 years of the anti-smoking campaign in the United States. The total number of years of life saved is estimated at about 157 million.

09.01.2014
Cellular technologies

Cellular technologies: will be done and is already being done

In a little over a year after the term "induced pluripotent stem cells" moved from the pages of scientific journals to mass publications, the intensity of research in the field of stem cell use for medical purposes has not decreased at all.

09.01.2014
Various

Is Japan the world leader in demographic change?

The decline in the population of Japan in the future means an increase in acreage per capita and the quality of life in general. The country's needs for food and other natural resources will also decrease.

09.01.2014
Cellular technologies

Stem cells against resistant forms of tuberculosis

The results of the preliminary study indicate that autologous bone marrow stem cells can be used to improve the effectiveness of the treatment of antibiotic-resistant forms of tuberculosis.

09.01.2014
Biomedicine

Antioxidant against multiple sclerosis

Developed more than 10 years ago, the antioxidant MitoQ significantly relieves the symptoms of the mouse model of multiple sclerosis.

30.12.2013
Biomedicine

Stop metastases at the border

In experiments on mice, the first stage of breast cancer metastasis – an attempt to invade cancer cells into surrounding tissues - was successfully blocked.

30.12.2013
Other life sciences

Drug delivery: biocomputer with printer

A biocomputer that processes molecular signals and, if necessary, activates the release of drugs can be compared to connecting a computer to a printer.

30.12.2013
Your health

Healthy Lifestyle – 2013: exposing myths

The year was marked by the exposure of many myths about a healthy lifestyle and healthy nutrition. Antioxidants have fallen into disgrace, omega-acids have been under suspicion – and only bad habits have retained their unconditional harmfulness.

27.12.2013
Biomedicine

Blocking microRNAs to fight atherosclerosis

The experimental method of combating atherosclerosis is to neutralize the microRNA that suppresses the activity of the gene that regulates inflammatory processes in the endothelium.

27.12.2013
Other life sciences

Sirtuins and mitochondria: new data

Researchers have identified hundreds of mitochondrial proteins that undergo modification and subsequent regulation by sirtuin SIRT5. These findings have far-reaching implications for understanding metabolism in both normal and pathological conditions.

27.12.2013
Innovative Russia

Business angels spread their wings

Russian business angels invested more than $116.5 million in early-stage projects in 11 months of 2013. This is almost 4.5 times more than in 2012.

26.12.2013
Various

Medicine-2013

"Newspaper.Ru" recalls the achievements of medicine in 2013: bionic prostheses, cancer immunotherapy, HIV protection and other developments of scientists in the clinic and laboratory.

26.12.2013
Biomedicine

Unique technology will help treat brain diseases

The Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences became one of the winners of the RFBR competition "Complex interdisciplinary fundamental research in the field of molecular and cellular organization of biological structures and processes". However, the size of the grant can only be viewed through a microscope:(

26.12.2013
Nanotechnology

The silver light of DNA

Russian scientists from the Faculty of Physics of St. Petersburg State University managed to stabilize silver clusters in solution using DNA nanoparticles. This made it possible to create chemically stable biocompatible fluorescent labels with high brightness.

26.12.2013
Other life sciences

Open source Nematode

The authors of the OpenWorm project, which aims to create an exact computer copy of the C.elegans roundworm, have announced significant success in modeling this nematode. The source code of the program is published in the public domain.

26.12.2013
Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology against epidemics

Gene-RADAR technology can be used not only to detect diseases of a particular person. Data uploaded to the cloud from multiple Gene-RADAR devices allows you to determine the spread of epidemics.

25.12.2013