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Healthy skepticism

Dietary supplements and poisons

Only three packages of miracle dietary supplements for the price of two (kilograms of caviar :) they will allow you to find the desired forms – the advertisement helpfully suggests.

19.10.2017
Biomedicine

Against diabetes and leukemia

The antidiabetic drug restores the maturation of healthy hematopoietic cells and suppresses the growth of malignant ones.

18.10.2017
Other life sciences

The cause of schizophrenia

The results of a new study have shown that in schizophrenia, the structure of white matter throughout the brain is disrupted.

18.10.2017
Other life sciences

Uninvited guests

Cross-contamination of cell lines could distort the results of tens of thousands of studies in biology and medicine.

18.10.2017
Other life sciences

New HIV reservoir

Molecular biologists have discovered a third type of immune cells in which the immunodeficiency virus can hide indefinitely.

18.10.2017
Other life sciences

Pancreas from Harvard

The next clinical trials of the artificial "pancreas" were successful.

18.10.2017
New in Gerontology

Friend and foe

Depending on the conditions, the protein product of the TREM2 gene contributes to the development of Alzheimer's disease or protects the brain from damage.

17.10.2017
Genetics

Biotechclub–2017

Hereditary diseases, gene therapy and editing of the human genome were among the main topics of the conference "Biotechclub–2017".

17.10.2017
Genetic engineering

Controlled evolution

The term "genetically modified organism" implies that the genome of an object has been changed. How and why is it changed?

17.10.2017
Other life sciences

How long do I have to live

The mtDNA copy number is a new biomarker capable of accurately predicting the risk of sudden death from cardiac arrest for 10 years or more.

17.10.2017
Genetic engineering

Buy Arctic apples!

Arctic Apples, which do not change color in the air, will be available to buy in 400 supermarkets in the United States in November 2017.

17.10.2017
Other life sciences

Cancer and glycolysis

New data on the Warburg effect in the future may allow more purposefully "starving" sick cells.

17.10.2017
Your health

Alzheimer's disease

The first manifestations of the disease are separated from the stage of severe dementia by about ten years. At the initial stage, the treatment will be most effective.

17.10.2017
Other life sciences

Tip of the iceberg

Carbapenem resistance genes in non–pathogenic bacteria are just the beginning. If they (and many that have not yet been discovered) are transmitted to pathogenic microbes…

16.10.2017
Nanotechnology

Nanoteranostics and nanosecurity

One of the main participants of the symposium "Engineering and Physical technologies of biomedicine" - about innovations in the field of nanoteranostics.

16.10.2017
Theories of aging

KLF protein and aging

An increase in the concentration of proteins of one of the families of transcription factors increases the life expectancy of roundworms and mice.

16.10.2017
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of Leber's amaurosis

The FDA Advisory Committee recommended approving a method of gene therapy for a disease that inevitably leads to complete blindness.

16.10.2017