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Your health

Careful, varicocele!

Researchers have established a link between the symptoms of varicocele and metabolic disorders, as well as cardiovascular diseases.

04.12.2017
Prolonging youth

The Fountain of Eternal Youth (2)

Rejuvenation with the help of "young blood" or its components remains controversial, but a promising area of research in gerontology.

01.12.2017
Your health

Bone marrow cancer

This is a group of diseases affecting people of all ages, widespread everywhere and requiring serious treatment.

01.12.2017
Other life sciences

Features of national AIDS

On the first of December, the World Day against Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome – HIV/AIDS (World AIDS Day) is celebrated.

01.12.2017
Bioethics

Leave quietly

Providing a patient with a decent life, even if it lasts for several months or days, is not an easy task, but it can be solved.

30.11.2017
Note to the businessman

Investing in diabetes treatment

An American startup hoping to cure type one diabetes with an implant with insulin-producing cells has raised $114 million.

30.11.2017
Genetics

Why do smart people live longer?

Many of the alleles associated with high intelligence turned out to be characteristic of people with a long life expectancy.

30.11.2017
Genetic engineering

The God games continue

Semi-synthetic bacteria have been taught to synthesize protein based on information encoded in DNA with six bases.

30.11.2017
Other life sciences

Brain, augmented edition

How is scientific research in the direction of "brain-computer" developing now and can interfaces become a reality for ordinary people?

29.11.2017
Other life sciences

Travel in the company

Tumor cells can take bacteria with them on a journey through the blood vessels to help them settle in a new place.

29.11.2017
Healthy skepticism

Those Yetis again!

A study of the mitochondrial DNA of the remains of the "yeti" showed that the bones, teeth and skins actually belonged to bears and dogs.

29.11.2017
Genetic engineering

A bright future

You can teach cells to react to light and control them with a flashlight. Let's try to figure out how optogenetics is convenient.

29.11.2017
Other life sciences

Learning to manage entosis

Scientists hope to turn one of the forms of cellular "cannibalism" into a powerful weapon to fight cancer.

29.11.2017
Your health

Probiotics and prebiotics

Probiotics and prebiotics are easy to confuse. The author tells how the first differ from the second and whether it is necessary to include them in the diet.

29.11.2017