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The brain is the head of everything
Probably, a fully "charged" brain helped our ancestors better navigate dangerous situations and save their lives more often than fresh muscles.
20.10.2017- English version
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Genetics
From one to ten
British geneticists have calculated for the first time how many mutations are required for the origin of most of the most common types of cancer.
20.10.2017
Biomedicine
Obesity in monkeys cured with injections
An injection of an appetite-reducing protein helped the experimental monkeys lose 10% of their weight and reduced the risk of diabetes.
20.10.2017
Genetic engineering
Gene therapy for horses
Biologists from Moscow, Kazan and the UK have created an experimental gene therapy and cured a horse of lameness with its help.
20.10.2017
Other life sciences
What does DNA look like
The short video simply and clearly shows what DNA actually looks like and how it is packed inside cells.
19.10.2017
Various
Well, for mutual understanding!
Small portions of alcohol allow a person to pronounce words more correctly and communicate more actively in foreign languages.
19.10.2017
Your health
Athletes, take care of the vessels
In overly active white men, the risk of coronary artery blockage increases by 86% in middle age.
19.10.2017
Biomedicine
The second gene therapy of lymphoma
The FDA has approved the Yescarta gene therapy method for the treatment of certain types of large-cell B-cell lymphoma.
19.10.2017
Your health
Vaccinate boys against papillomavirus
One in nine American men is infected with oral HPV, which can cause throat and head and neck cancer.
19.10.2017
Other life sciences
Fertilization on the screen
Two biologists made a realistic short film about how a sperm fertilizes an egg.
19.10.2017
Genetics
Once again about the benefits of garbage
The ancestors of humans could gain intelligence and take the first steps to create tools due to the doubling of the so-called junk DNA
19.10.2017
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
Accurate prediction of malignancy
Diagnostics using machine learning methods could reduce the number of optional mastectomies by a third.
18.10.2017
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
Your health
What prevents sex after menopause
Almost half (48%) of respondents reported that they had not had sex at all in the last 6 months.
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