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Genetics

Eternally young giants

Changing the expression of just one gene keeps tobacco plants forever young and increases their growth several times. Currently, researchers are trying to apply the developed approach to potatoes.

10.01.2013
Genetics

The Pitfalls of Personalized Medicine

Before personalized medicine becomes a reality, society needs to think through a lot of ethical, legal, economic and social issues.

10.01.2013
Controversial

Get fat on your health?

The results of a large meta-analysis proved that mild and moderate obesity (body mass index less than 35) does not significantly affect life expectancy. However, BMI is not the best criterion for obesity…

10.01.2013
Biomedicine

Breaks in chemotherapy enhance its effectiveness

A group of researchers from Switzerland and the USA announced a discovery that, in principle, can significantly prolong the life of patients suffering from one of the forms of melanoma – skin cancer – in its last, inoperable metastatic stage.

10.01.2013
Note to the businessman

Business at the incubator

A business incubator can be quite a successful business. The only question is how to properly build his work and "run in" the business model.

10.01.2013
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy helps to restore the blood vessels of the heart

The results of a survey of participants in a clinical study of the method of gene therapy for severe coronary heart disease indicate the prospects of this approach and the feasibility of conducting larger-scale studies.

09.01.2013
Biomedicine

Homunculus

This is what the Moscow Scientific and Technical Center called the BioClinicum microbioreactor, which allows replacing the testing of drugs and cosmetics on animals and selecting medicines for personalized therapy.

09.01.2013
Various

A comedian will help to study prostate cancer

To draw public attention to the problem of insufficient funding for prostate cancer research, the charity Prostate Cancer UK is launching a campaign, the face of which will be the English comic actor Bill Bailey.

09.01.2013
Healthy skepticism

Fake science

What makes scientists, willingly or unwittingly, falsify the results and what can be done about it?

09.01.2013
Nanotechnology

Quantum dots from worms

Earthworms have been turned into a factory for the production of biocompatible quantum dots from cadmium telluride.

28.12.2012
Various

Informatized healthcare in Russia

The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation summed up the results of the implementation of measures for the informatization of healthcare in 2012.

28.12.2012
Other life sciences

Atherosclerosis and immunity: is it the opposite?

Researchers from Columbia University have shown that the immune response to atherosclerosis is dominated not by pro-inflammatory T-lymphocytes, as is commonly believed, but by protective regulatory T-cells.

27.12.2012
Your health

Call the doctor!

The doctor search service DocDoc has opened its first branch in St. Petersburg, where it plans to become in 2013 the only Internet resource with the maximum amount of information about specialist doctors and major medical centers.

26.12.2012
Your health

The doctor who is always with you

The device attached to the arm monitors blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rate and temperature. With its help, the doctor can remotely – via a PC, tablet or smartphone – monitor the patient's health around the clock.

26.12.2012
Various

Healthcare-2020

Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 2511-p of December 24, 2012 approved the "State Program for the Development of Healthcare of the Russian Federation".

26.12.2012