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Your health

The obesity epidemic

The number of inhabitants of the Earth with extra kilograms by 2025 will reach 2.7 billion. The proportion of overweight people will be about 46%, and with extreme forms of obesity – 17%.

13.06.2017
Other life sciences

Dogma in doubt

Russian scientists have found that alternative splicing of matrix RNAs contributes significantly less to the diversity of proteins inside the cell than expected.

13.06.2017
Your health

The five most dangerous diets for men

Diets are necessary for people suffering from certain diseases. And those who want to lose weight do not need diets, but a therapist's consultation and a proper diet.

13.06.2017
Biomedicine

Tuberculosis vaccine will help cure diabetes

American doctors have proposed using a conventional tuberculosis vaccine – the well–known BCG - for the treatment of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

13.06.2017
Other life sciences

Biosensors (Part 1)

The use of biosensors has become of great importance in the fields of biomedicine, food security, defense, security and environmental quality monitoring.

09.06.2017
Theories of aging

Age-related diseases and mitochondria

Neurodegenerative and oncological diseases are closely related to intracellular energy metabolism and mitochondrial dysfunction.

09.06.2017
Other life sciences

Prevent a seizure

Scientists have developed and tested on rats a prototype brain-computer interface for predicting and preventing seizures in patients with epilepsy.

09.06.2017
Other life sciences

Protein radiometers

The glow color of the obelin protein changes even at low radiation doses, which opens up the possibility of creating new systems for testing radiation toxicity.

09.06.2017
Other life sciences

Help a neighbor

Cancer cells that have developed resistance to a lack of nutrients and chemotherapy transmit a signal to other tumor cells that includes the same resistance.

08.06.2017
Biomedicine

Yogurt bacteria defeat drug-resistant

Researchers from Howard University reported that bacteria from ordinary yogurt can serve as an effective weapon against "super-microbes".

08.06.2017
Other life sciences

Prosthetics by personal measure

The novelty of the development lies in the fact that the prostheses are created personified for each person, taking into account the individual characteristics of the patient.

08.06.2017
Other life sciences

Accelerated X-ray structural analysis of proteins

Scientists from the University of Grenoble and MIPT have created a highly efficient method for calculating X-ray scattering curves for analyzing the structure of protein molecules.

08.06.2017
Other life sciences

About the benefits of a "beer belly"

Internal fatty deposits of the omentum bring a lot of benefits to the body. Scientists have pointed to another of their functions – protection from infections and toxins.

08.06.2017
Your health

Drank a glass, drank two…

The use of even small portions of alcohol, corresponding to one bottle of beer per week, leads to atrophy of the memory center in the brain and to deterioration of its work in general.

08.06.2017
Other life sciences

Why is the heart not being renewed

The discovery of the fact that the Hippo and DAG signaling pathways act as a "brake" on cardiomyocyte division may lead to the possibility of updating the heart muscle.

07.06.2017
Biomedicine

Cancer Treatment: Good news

Several medicines that have proven themselves well in the fight against common forms of cancer set a new standard for the treatment of many types of cancer.

07.06.2017
Your health

Should I get vaccinated or not?

In Russia, and throughout the world, a heated discussion has recently unfolded on the need and benefits of vaccination. What arguments can be drawn in favor of vaccines?

07.06.2017