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Biomedicine

Two hormones will help in the fight against obesity

After intravenous administration of a combination of glucagon and glucan-like peptide 1, the volunteers consumed almost 18% fewer calories than after placebo infusions or only one of the hormones.

20.03.2013
Nanotechnology

A new word in joint prosthetics

Magnetoelastic-based coatings do not require power supply and are able not only to inform whether healing is normal after implantation of an artificial joint, but also to fight infections and scar tissue fouling.

20.03.2013
Various

What is cosmetics for?

The contrast of the face, which decreases with aging, is involuntarily perceived as an indicator of a person's age, which women try to hide with the help of cosmetics.

20.03.2013
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of choroideremia

Clinical trials of gene therapy for choroideremia, a hereditary disease that leads to blindness, have successfully begun in the UK.

19.03.2013
Various

Old age has its own joys

Young people expect helplessness, loss of mental clarity, deterioration of vision and hearing, and other troubles from inevitable old age. But is it really that scary? In fact, old age has its advantages.

19.03.2013
Cloning

Cloning extinct animals: dreams and reality

The maximum that has been achieved in this area is several divisions of the egg cell of one frog species with the somatic cell nucleus of another, recently extinct, frozen 40 years ago. But dreaming about mammoths or wandering pigeons is not harmful…

19.03.2013
Biomedicine

Bioengineered liver hits barriers

Domestic biomedical, including cellular, technologies are being developed by the efforts of enthusiastic scientists, but they cannot reach hundreds of thousands of patients due to lack of money, personnel and state support.

18.03.2013
Other life sciences

Brown fat: the study continues

Researchers have identified a transcription factor that ensures the differentiation of adipose tissue progenitor cells into brown fat cells. They hope that the activation of this protein may become a new method of treating obesity.

18.03.2013
Your health

Frequent smoke breaks are not as harmful as hard work

The impact of work on wear and tear on the development of coronary heart disease turned out to be much stronger than the researchers had assumed, and left behind such well-known risk factors as smoking, high blood lipids and lack of physical activity.

18.03.2013
Cellular technologies

Stem cells will restore erection after prostatectomy

Transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells cultured on a nanofiber mesh is a promising new approach to the treatment of erectile dysfunction, which is a frequent side effect of prostate removal.

18.03.2013
Grants and competitions

Swiss scholarships for infectious diseases

Grants are provided to young doctors and scientists to participate in interdisciplinary internships and clinical research at biomedical institutes in Switzerland.

15.03.2013
Healthy skepticism

My toze Nobel hotset!

A Chinese surgeon has sued the Nobel Assembly. According to the plaintiff, he proved the possibility of reprogramming differentiated cells into pluripotent stem cells much earlier than Yamanaka. However, he can only confirm this with unsubstantiated statements…

15.03.2013
Cellular technologies

Liver regeneration: you can do without stem cells

The data obtained in experiments on mice indicate the existence of molecular mechanisms capable of triggering the process of liver regeneration due to the division of its specialized, rather than stem cells.

15.03.2013
Biomedicine

Cancer under control

The test for extracellular tumor DNA determines the condition of cancer patients with greater accuracy than the FDA-approved test for cancer cells circulating in the blood.

15.03.2013