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Your health

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Many vaping users do not stop smoking regular cigarettes. This increases the unpleasant consequences of tobacco use: coughing, wheezing and sputum production.

12.09.2017
Other life sciences

Beta-amyloid in high resolution

A group of German scientists published the structure of the β-amyloid fibrillae – the main component of amyloid plaques – with a resolution of 0.4 nm.

12.09.2017
Other life sciences

Treatment of alcoholism: a new target

Scientists hope that the discovery of the molecular pathway of alcohol addiction formation will allow developing new methods of its treatment.

12.09.2017
Cellular technologies

Measure it seven times

If the results obtained by Mitalipov's group are really contradictory, then such manipulations seem extremely risky.

12.09.2017
Healthy skepticism

Scientists criticized the "DNA portrait"

Craig Venter's statements about the possibility of reconstructing a person's face from small mutations in his DNA do not correspond to reality

11.09.2017
Cellular technologies

Direct reprogramming

Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis were able to turn skin cells taken from healthy adults directly into motor neurons

11.09.2017
Your health

The Kremlin Diet

It is dangerous even for absolutely healthy people, since large amounts of protein and fats can provoke diseases of the liver, kidneys, stomach, intestines.

11.09.2017
Cellular technologies

The third is not superfluous

Recently, the news flew around the world: the first "child from three parents" was born. Why do we need this technology, and is this the first child with a third parent?

11.09.2017
Nanotechnology

Magnetotactic bacteria

Microbes accumulating particles of iron compounds in the cytoplasm were "armed" with liposomes with an antitumor drug and sent to the center of the tumor.

11.09.2017
Biomedicine

So as not to cut off the excess

Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin have developed a device that, when touching tissue, distinguishes a healthy area from a tumor area in 10 seconds.

08.09.2017
Genetics

The new "porphyria gene"

In addition to the ferrochelatase enzyme, "vampire disease" can cause the ClpX protein, mutations in the gene of which disrupt hemoglobin synthesis and cause photophobia.

08.09.2017
Other life sciences

Not a gram of carbohydrates

The cyclic ketogenic diet reduced mortality in mice in middle age and improved cognitive abilities in older animals.

08.09.2017
Biomedicine

A label for a brain tumor

The fluorescent dye makes it possible to distinguish pituitary adenoma cells from healthy ones during the operation, which significantly reduces the risk of recurrence.

08.09.2017
Genetic engineering

CAR-T: Obstacle Race

Novartis wins the race – last week the regulator approved the company's gene therapy for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

07.09.2017
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of choroideremia

Treatment of progressive blindness involves virus-vector delivery of recombinant DNA developed for the synthesis of a functioning REP-1 gene.

07.09.2017
Genetics

Human evolution continues

Scientists have found out that natural selection still affects representatives of our species, eliminating carriers of harmful mutations.

07.09.2017
Your health

About the benefits of mobile phones

The use of mobile phones during pregnancy does not harm either the mother or the child and, although indirectly, contributes to its psychomotor development.

07.09.2017