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When a patient is a source of income

The average patient in the US last year using an orphan drug spent $136,000 on it, and this cost has increased by 38% since 2010.

31.05.2017
Genetic engineering

Useful pests

The females of the genetically modified cabbage moth die before mating, and the males mate with wild-type females, spreading the lethal gene in the population.

31.05.2017
Your health

Starve, don't starve – 2

The magnitude of life extension in primates who lived on a starvation diet, if there is one, is so small that for the sake of these percentages it is absolutely not worth torturing your body.

30.05.2017
Biomedicine

Super-vancomycin

The new antibiotic is 25,000 times more effective than a simple vancomycin. The developers claim that microbes will only be able to develop resistance to it in 50 years.

30.05.2017
Various

Are scientists hiding?

The chapter "Why a pseudo-scientist on the screen looks more convincing than a scientist" from the book by Alexander Sokolov, which will soon be published by Alpina non-fiction publishing house.

30.05.2017
Cellular technologies

Macrophages against non-healing ulcers

Accelerated wound healing in mice was noticeable even to the naked eye – after treatment with reprogrammed macrophages, they tightened twice as fast.

30.05.2017
Genetics

Be careful with genome editing!

The CRISPR-Cas9 method can lead to hundreds of unintended mutations, and algorithms for predicting its effect on the body give erroneous results.

30.05.2017
Biotechnologies - into life

Recipes from the laboratory

Professor Gainetdinov is a vivid example of how the grant system helps to develop Russian science and involve truly talented creators in it.

29.05.2017
New in Gerontology

Biological age indices

Arterial indicators for calculating indices are evaluated noninvasively, by quantifying four indicators of cardiovascular health.

29.05.2017
Genetics

About the benefits of harmful mutations

The more harmful mutations there are in the genome, the more harmful the subsequent ones are. This allows negative selection to more effectively remove harmful alleles from the population.

29.05.2017
Innovative Russia

GenerationS-2016: results

GenerationS partner corporations have chosen the accelerator as a platform for implementing their own innovative programs and developing "open innovation" tools.

29.05.2017
New in Gerontology

Four more "longevity genes"

New rare gene variants are associated with exceptional longevity and a reduced risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and Alzheimer's disease.

29.05.2017
Genetics

Slow down cancer

Biologists from the USA have found a way to suppress or greatly slow down the growth of cancerous tumors by blocking the work of a protein necessary to start the process of division of any living cells

29.05.2017
Biomedicine

Carcinogenic protein will help wound healing

Granulins are involved not only in the formation of tumors. They promote the appearance of new blood vessels and tissue regeneration, including wound healing.

26.05.2017
Your health

And more about the dangers of lack of sleep

Biologists have shown that sleep deficiency leads to hyperactivation of the brain's "self-cleaning" systems, and they begin to remove even the necessary cells and synapses.

26.05.2017
Other life sciences

Baldness and immunity

The cause of early baldness or problems with hair growth may be not only an excess of testosterone, but also the improper functioning of regulatory T-lymphocytes.

26.05.2017
Other life sciences

A film about the life of organelles

Using a whole set of colored fluorescent markers, it was possible to obtain the most detailed video recording of the interactions of cellular organelles inside a living cell.

25.05.2017