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We were robbed again

The Ministry of Health submitted unreliable expense reports, forgot to finance high-tech medical care to the population and purchased a vaccine that will have to be written off.

29.06.2017
Your health

Smart people live longer

A high IQ in childhood and adolescence is associated with a longer life expectancy and a lower probability of dying from cancer, heart disease and neurodegenerative diseases.

29.06.2017
Controversial

Doubtful doubt

The authors of the discovery of the "limit of life" consider the criticism of their work to be incorrect. They are sure that their opponents are using the wrong methods of analysis.

29.06.2017
Biomedicine

The cemetery of "unicorns"

Yuri Deigin, Vice President of the Science for Life Extension Foundation, talks about what is happening in the Alzheimer's market and why companies fail over and over again.

29.06.2017
Biomedicine

A negative result is also a result

Unlike the first series of the project on reproduction of works in oncology, in the second it turned out to reproduce not all the results, but most of them.

28.06.2017
Nanotechnology

Electronic synapses

American researchers have created the first semiconductor analogue of the synapse, which will allow scientists to create computing systems that simulate the work of the brain.

28.06.2017
Biomedicine

Anti-flu patch

American scientists have proven the effectiveness of soluble patches as a method of vaccination against influenza. In the near future, this method may replace painful injections.

28.06.2017
Theories of aging

A false trail in the fight against aging?

The fact that there are more senescent cells in the body as we age does not mean that they are the cause of it. And it looks like they may be a false trail.

28.06.2017
Other life sciences

Eyes on magnets

Scientists from University College London and Oxford University implanted a magnetic prosthesis into the eye socket of a patient suffering from nystagmus.

27.06.2017
Cellular technologies

Chimeric patch for the heart

Cardiomyocyte cultures are able to fuse into synchronously contracting tissue, even if they belong to different animals or representatives of different species.

27.06.2017
Genetic engineering

Schizophrenic rats

A line of rats, bred by Novosibirsk scientists, prone to catatonia, depression and involuntary arousal, is used as a model for the study of schizophrenia.

27.06.2017
Controversial

Korean folk antipokhmelin

Having studied everything that can be obtained from anti-intoxicating drugs in South Korea, Lee and his colleagues created a recipe that combines the advantages of all other folk remedies.

27.06.2017
Other life sciences

Hello, brain! The intestines are bothering!

Scientists from Australia and the USA have discovered that special enterochromaffin cells of the intestine send information about the state of this organ to the nervous system.

27.06.2017
Genetics

How cancer is protected from apoptosis

The secret to the survival of many tumors is that they use the "fifth column" in their own DNA to suppress the work of the cell self-destruction system.

27.06.2017
Other life sciences

Autoimmune Parkinson's disease

An autoimmune reaction to alpha–synuclein contributes to the development of Parkinson's disease, one of the most common age–related neurodegenerative diseases.

26.06.2017
Prolonging youth

Cephalosporin against senile dementia

NSU scientists have studied the effect of ceftriaxone on rats with genetically determined accelerated aging for the correction of cognitive impairment.

26.06.2017
Healthy skepticism

NASA vs. Gwyneth Paltrow

In the XXI century, the problem of wide-ranging hoeing of a sucker is associated with the inability to keep it a secret from those whose good name you are trying to hide behind.

26.06.2017