Other life sciences
Cores, be sure to get vaccinated against the flu!
A flu shot will not only protect you from the virus, but also reduce the likelihood of developing a heart attack.
29.10.2012- English version
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Your health
Sensational discovery of British scientists: smoking shortens life!
It turns out that people who smoke all their lives live on average 10 years less than those who have never had this bad habit – and we didn't even know! However, if you quit in time...
29.10.2012
Other life sciences
Stem Cell Bodyguards
A rare and previously unknown subgroup of immune cells – macrophages – maintains the "eternally young" state of hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow, preventing their differentiation.
29.10.2012
Grants and competitions
BIO Formula
Graduates of leading Russian biological, chemical, medical, technical and managerial universities will be able to participate in the Formula BIO program.
27.10.2012
Biomedicine
Is resveratrol useless for healthy people?
In a study involving 29 post-menopausal women who did not have type 2 diabetes and were relatively healthy, it was not possible to detect the slightest effect from taking resveratrol.
26.10.2012
Innovative Russia
Biotechnologies in Russia: restructuring and acceleration
The Russian biotech sector, lagging behind IT by about a decade in terms of development, is successfully "catching up" with it, according to Evgeny Zaitsev, general partner of the Helix Ventures Fund.
26.10.2012
Biomedicine
Are you afraid of Alzheimer's disease? Do not be late with the start of HRT!
Starting hormone replacement therapy no later than 5 years after menopause reduces the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease by 30%. A later start of such therapy does not affect the likelihood of dementia.
26.10.2012
Your health
A drop of alcohol kills a rat
Before enthusiastically "treating" yourself with red wine for future cardiovascular problems or warming up your appetite with a portion of something stronger, ask yourself if you are ready to pay for it with your own memory.
25.10.2012
Cellular technologies
The method of creating "children of three parents" is waiting for permission
This technology, with all its imperfections, can even now be used to fertilize women with mutant mitochondrial DNA. You just need to break through the bureaucratic barriers.
25.10.2012
Genetics
How will a placebo affect you?
The ability to predict the placebo effect in advance, based on the analysis of variations of just one gene, will help reduce the scale, cost and duration of clinical trials.
25.10.2012
Various
The role of grandmothers in prolonging the life of great-great-grandchildren
Anthropologists have received a new confirmation of the "grandmother hypothesis": modeling has shown that the doubling of human life expectancy compared to primates could occur spontaneously due to the care of offspring at a late age.
24.10.2012
Genetics
Intelligence genes are multiplying rapidly
Scientists predict that the number of intelligence genes may be more than a thousand. Why has always rational nature in this case turned out to be so wasteful?
24.10.2012
Various
Stars don't age
At the recent New York Fashion Week, 81-year-old fashion model Carmen Dell took to the catwalk’Offer. Her appearance again stirred up the debate about whether it is worthy to flaunt yourself at such an age and whether it's time for Grandma to have a well-deserved rest.
24.10.2012
Other life sciences
A new target for drugs against Parkinson's disease
The mutation responsible for the development of both familial and sporadic cases of Parkinson's disease causes deformation of the membrane surrounding the nuclei of brain stem cells. "In vitro" the normal function of mutant cells has already been restored.
24.10.2012
Prolonging youth
Passport, biological, psychological age…
With the so-called successful aging, not only the biological, but also the psychological age of a person lags behind the chronological one. However, the concept of psychological age is not scientifically developed enough.
23.10.2012
Biomedicine
A new epigenetic marker of breast cancer
The DOK7 gene as a marker of breast cancer has unique prognostic characteristics: hypermethylation of one of its promoters in peripheral blood cells can be detected several years before diagnosis.
23.10.2012
Cellular technologies
The neuron lived, the neuron is alive, the neuron will live!
The unexpectedly high survival rate of embryonic neurons in the brains of newborn mice gives hope for the effective use of nerve cell transplantation for the treatment of neurodegenerative and other neurological diseases.
23.10.2012
Healthy skepticism
There are no barriers for us!
In Skolkovo, they are seriously going to discuss the possibility of creating a perpetual motion machine – a unique power plant with an efficiency of more than 100%.
23.10.2012
Various
Bra against breast cancer
Engineers at First Warning Systems have developed a bra with a temperature sensor system that allows you to detect breast tissue abnormalities years before the appearance of a registered tumor.
22.10.2012
Various
Reverse mortgage will help you live out your retirement
To the delicate question of what will happen to a pensioner who will survive the 10 years required for payments, the Agency for the Restructuring of Mortgage Housing Loans confidently answers that he will not be evicted to the street, and banks will not be at a loss either.
19.10.2012