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Prolonging youth

Marijuana rejuvenated the brains of old mice

Course administration of the main active substance of marijuana is able to restore cognitive functions (in particular, learning and memory) of elderly mice to the level of young animals.

11.05.2017
Other life sciences

Virtual Psychiatrist

We can confidently talk about good prospects for using virtual reality to treat various phobias, anxiety disorders and other mental ailments.

11.05.2017
Genetics

Important letter

Russian researchers have identified a letter in the genome that may be involved in the mechanisms of development of autoimmune diseases, in particular, multiple sclerosis.

11.05.2017
Other life sciences

The liver grows after eating

Why the liver increases and decreases is unclear; most likely, it's about the assimilation of nutrients that enter the body at a certain time of day.

11.05.2017
Other life sciences

Prototype of a soft bionic retina

This is a field of 16 cubes of hydrogel with droplets of the bacteriorhodopsin protein, which, like the pigment of the cones of the retina, creates an action potential when illuminated.

10.05.2017
Your health

Blood type and heart disease

Researchers from the Netherlands have found that people with any blood type other than I are more susceptible to cardiovascular pathologies, including the occurrence of a heart attack.

10.05.2017
Other life sciences

The sighted hand

British engineers are preparing to test prosthetic hands that automatically determine the shape of the object to be taken and "adjust" to it.

10.05.2017
Other life sciences

A real macho man acts without hesitation

American scientists have found that elevated testosterone levels reduce men's ability to critically evaluate impulsive and intuitive judgments.

10.05.2017
Genetics

Sexual dimorphism at the molecular level

Israeli researchers have for the first time fully described the sexual characteristics of the expression of genes common to women and men. Guess where they found the maximum differences?

10.05.2017
Various

Congress of Gerontologists

The II All-Russian Congress on Gerontology and Geriatrics was held in Moscow on April 27-28. According to the organizers, more than 1,000 people took part in the congress.

10.05.2017
Various

And let no one leave offended!

The Chan-Zuckerberg initiative will sponsor bioRxiv, a free archive of science preprints, the creators of the service reported from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

28.04.2017
Biomedicine

Stivarga against liver cancer

The FDA has expanded the list of indications for the use of the drug regorafenib (Stivarga). Now it can be prescribed to patients who suffer from hepatocellular carcinoma.

28.04.2017
Genetics

Genomics of cave soil

The DNA of Neanderthals and Denisovans can be successfully identified in samples taken not from bones, but from sedimentary rocks of archaeological locations.

28.04.2017
Biomedicine

Antimicrobial peptides from maggots

The staff of the Laboratory of Biopharmacology and Immunology of Insects of St. Petersburg State University proposed a new approach to solving the problem of drug resistance of bacteria.

28.04.2017
Biotechnologies - into life

Chlorella harvest – 2 times faster

Now chlorella is grown in Russia, but it takes at least a day. In a bioreactor developed at TPU, 12 hours are enough to obtain the desired concentration.

28.04.2017
Healthy skepticism

Did they like getting a Shnobelevku?

This time, the winners of the 2015 Nobel Prize were interested in the time of defecation, which is "determined by the ratio of the length of feces to the speed of feces."

28.04.2017
Cellular technologies

Optogenetics for diabetics

An international group of researchers proposed to shift the control of artificial cells implanted in the body to produce insulin to a smartphone.

28.04.2017