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Note to the businessman

Koshcheev 's secrets

Unlike gerontology, antiaging (prevention of aging) offers services, for example, xenotherapy and detox droppers, mainly to patients aged 35-55 years.

01.03.2017
Cellular technologies

Stem cells and neurodegenerative diseases (3)

Will stem cells help with Alzheimer's disease, the leading cause of dementia in an aging population and the sixth leading cause of death in developed countries?

28.02.2017
Genetic engineering

An effective way of DNA editing has been found

Scientists from South Korea have created a new technology based on the CRISPR/Cas system, which allows you to make mutations in DNA with an accuracy of one nucleotide.

28.02.2017
Various

Urgently required!

The bacteria on the WHO list are divided into three groups according to the level of need for the creation of new antibiotics: extremely priority, high priority and medium priority.

28.02.2017
Genetics

Neanderthal genes: new data

"Neanderthal" sections of DNA still affect the expression of human genes – in particular, the manifestations of signs such as growth and the risk of developing schizophrenia.

28.02.2017
Biomedicine

HIV vaccine development continues

At the conference on retroviral and opportunistic infections, scientists presented the results of clinical trials of a new therapeutic vaccine against HIV.

28.02.2017
Genetic engineering

Cancer immunotherapy has become even more effective

American scientists have improved the effectiveness of cancer therapy with T-lymphocytes with chimeric antigen receptors (CAR-T), using the CRISPR/Cas9 system to obtain them.

28.02.2017
Grants and competitions

A new quality of life

ASI and the Industrial Development Fund are selecting projects aimed at the development and production of innovative technical means of rehabilitation of persons with disabilities.

28.02.2017
Cellular technologies

Stem cells and neurodegenerative diseases (1)

The progress that has occurred over the past decade in the field of stem cell applications for the diagnosis, modeling and therapy of neurodegenerative diseases.

27.02.2017
Healthy skepticism

"Meat is harmful" and other health myths

Palm oil is also harmful, antiperspirants cause cancer, and the petunia gene is implanted in peanuts – health myths regularly shake the Internet. We will debunk six of them now.

27.02.2017
Genetics

Total sequencing

The Smithsonian Initiative on Biodiversity Genomics and the Chinese company Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) intend to sequence the genomes of all species of living organisms on Earth.

27.02.2017
Other life sciences

An implant without implantation

Harvard researchers will soon begin testing an implant on monkeys that does not require surgical intervention and is installed outside the skull.

27.02.2017
Other life sciences

The fastest and most accurate

Stanford researchers have managed to create a new type of brain-computer interface that provides a record-breaking speed and accuracy of work to date.

27.02.2017
Genetics

Clock genes change with age

In elderly flies, many genes stopped daily changes in activity, and others that had not previously responded to the instructions of the internal clock became rhythmic.

27.02.2017
Healthy skepticism

Homeopaths don't just sell pacifiers

A homeopathic drug containing belladonna, a poisonous plant that can lead to death from respiratory arrest, has been implicated in 400 cases of complications and even the death of children in the United States.

22.02.2017
Genetics

The cause of autoimmune diseases is point mutations

English geneticists have discovered mutations associated with autoimmune diseases of the mucous membrane of the digestive tract: ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease and celiac disease.

22.02.2017
Your health

Prevention of fractures in old age

Often referred to as a "silent" disease, osteoporosis, which develops with age, has virtually no symptoms and is rarely diagnosed before the appearance of fractures.

22.02.2017