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Biomedicine

A big step towards developing a vaccine against Alzheimer's disease

Injections of MPL, long used as an adjuvant (a substance that enhances the immune response during vaccination), led to the elimination of up to 80% of beta-amyloid plaques from the brains of mice with symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Tests on the ability to solve new problems showed a significant improvement in the cognitive abilities of animals.

17.01.2013
Biotechnologies - into life

Biotechnology in Russia: there would be a desire…

How to create your own biotech company in Russia and what are the features of the introduction of scientific developments here and in the USA, said the famous biologist Sergey Lukyanov.

17.01.2013
Other life sciences

Dopamine as a stimulant of creativity

Many patients who have completed a course of taking drugs that increase the activity of dopamine in the brain, have a creative talent. Such patients suddenly become artists, sculptors or writers.

16.01.2013
Other life sciences

Unique video: Virus infects cell

Researchers from the University of Texas were able to see and film all the subtleties of this process performed by the bacteriophage T7 in real time.

16.01.2013
Various

Choose: a cure for old age or for rejuvenation?

According to Alexey Turchin, an expert of the Russian transhumanist movement on global risks, a cure for old age will be sold barely, and a means for rejuvenation will cause a violent stir.

15.01.2013
Other life sciences

Cancer, aging and p53 protein: new data

Anti-oncogene p53 deprives potentially dangerous cells of energy supply, suppressing the work of the Krebs cycle. Accordingly, such a cell ceases to divide, begins to age and eventually dies.

15.01.2013
Grants and competitions

Competition of works by young oncologists

The purpose of the competition is to support young scientists, stimulate their scientific activities, and reward them for scientific achievements that make a significant contribution to the development of oncology.

14.01.2013
Genetics

Reconstruction of appearance by DNA

A chip containing hundreds of thousands of short DNA sequences will allow criminologists to obtain data on the origin, gender and color of the suspect's eyes and hair. And a total of 24 snips can determine the color of the eyes and hair of a person who died thousands of years ago.

14.01.2013
Genetic engineering

Correction of the genome up to the nucleotide

Researchers at MIT, the Broad Institute and Rockefeller University have developed a new technique that allows you to change the genomes of living cells with a high degree of accuracy.

14.01.2013
Biomedicine

Neurodegenerative diseases: another target

Blocking the interaction of one of the enzymes can resist the destruction of neurons associated with neurodegenerative diseases and become a new potential target in the development of drugs.

14.01.2013
Controversial

Are the benefits of antioxidants a myth?

The myth of antioxidants feeds itself: you no longer need a direct statement about their usefulness, but just say the word "antioxidant" to convince a person to drink, or eat, or smear it on his face.

11.01.2013
Nanotechnology

Man-made ribosome: the beginning is laid

Before the real ribosome, a nanodevice created by a scientist from the University of Manchester, like the Wright brothers' plane before a modern fighter, but it's a bad start.

11.01.2013
Your health

Medicine of the XXI century

Today, medicine is able to truly take up its eternal task: to know the full mechanism of the development of the disease, the exact scheme of its prevention and to master the methods that allow it to stop.

10.01.2013
Various

Old people for export

"In order to save money," 400,000 pensioners have already been transferred from Germany, the most prosperous EU country, to nursing homes in less affluent countries, and every year there are more of them by 5%.

10.01.2013