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Your health

Puncture on puncture

In Britain, one in ten adults has a piercing located in non-traditional places on the body. At the same time, more than a quarter of fashionistas (28%) faced various kinds of complications, and 13% had serious health problems due to poor-quality piercings.

24.06.2008
Bioethics

Informed consent (2)

Informed consent is a process, an active dialogue between a doctor and a patient (a healthy volunteer), which begins even before the start of the study and ends significantly later than its completion.

23.06.2008
Other life sciences

The brain has become wiser from a good electrical contact

The exchange of impulses (that is, the management of all the activities of living organisms) is carried out through synapses – biochemical complexes responsible mainly for the contact between the axon and the dendrite. Scientists believe that it was the complication of these contacts that contributed to the emergence of more advanced behaviors in mammals, and subsequently in humans.

20.06.2008
Genetics

"Genes of homosexuality" – a secret weapon in the struggle of the sexes

Scientists have modeled the spread of potential homosexuality genes. The authors believe that these same genes are associated with increased fertility in women and represent a way to control and maintain balance in the entire population. Roughly speaking, the more gays there are on the planet, the more fertile women are, and vice versa.

20.06.2008
New in Gerontology

Where can I get a pill for old age?

At the VIII International Symposium "Biological Mechanisms of Aging", scientists analyzed the results of research on the mechanisms of aging of various biological systems, discussed new theories in this field and the features of new experimental approaches, as well as social aspects of gerontology.

19.06.2008
Biotechnologies - into life

Russian-European biotechnologies

The winners of joint scientific projects in which scientists from Russia and the European Union participated for the first time were named. Three of the four projects relate to biotechnology.

19.06.2008
Your health

Allergy to cosmetics

The loud statement of cosmetics manufacturers that their products are "hypoallergenic" and "allergen–free" is nothing more than an advertising ploy.

18.06.2008
Healthy skepticism

The Universal Combinator

The humanoid opened Vorillon's eyes to the origin of the human species and explained in detail what and how this species needs to do next.

18.06.2008
Your health

Medications + alcohol = ?

In principle, the whole article can fit into one phrase: "Medicines should not be washed down with alcoholic beverages."

17.06.2008
New in Gerontology

Psychologists believe that in old age a person really becomes wiser

If the accumulated information is knowledge, and wisdom is the ability to organize this knowledge and use it, then of course old age is associated with wisdom. But over the years, wisdom does not always come: it is inherent only in the aging brain, not pathologically, due to diseases, but naturally.

17.06.2008
Bioethics

"God's Gene"

The idea of the "God gene" was accepted by theologians with hostility, although this discovery has nothing to do with the question "Is there a God?". It was only about the fact that people are religious for quite physiological reasons related to their hereditary information.

16.06.2008
Your health

When machos cry in vain…

Some serious misconceptions of the "stronger sex" about their health are debunked by andrologist, Professor Armais Kamalov and cardiologist Tamara Ogieva.

16.06.2008
Biotechnologies - into life

Show me your DNA

Established in 1993, the DNA Technology company was involved in the operation of a landmark world discovery and today sells DNA analysis equipment for $ 10 million a year.

16.06.2008
Theories of aging

Anti-oncogenes, aging and anti-aging: the more we know…

Anti-oncogene p16 is an effector of physiological aging of cells and aging of the whole organism; protein p19, which is also an anti-oncogene, suppresses these processes. The lack of the BubR1 protein induces an increase in the expression of both of these regulators of aging and, most likely, some other, as yet unknown...

11.06.2008
Biomedicine

Prick and not drink

Injection of glial neurotrophic factor into a certain area of the brain relieved alcoholic rats from the desire to drink.

11.06.2008
Grants and competitions

Competition of innovative projects of students, postgraduates and young scientists

The competition is held within the framework of the federal target program "Research and development in priority areas of development of the scientific and technological complex of Russia for 2007-2012" and is aimed at selecting the best innovative projects of students, postgraduates and young scientists.

11.06.2008
Biotechnologies - into life

Pharma 2020: from generics to innovative drugs

According to the authors of Pharma 2020, the growth of the innovative component of the industry can be ensured only if the volume of investments in it reaches about $ 200 million per year.

10.06.2008