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Scientists have questioned the ability of dogs to feel the "smell of cancer"

In the new study, unlike the previous ones, dogs showed themselves to be not very effective in performing the task of diagnosing cancer by smell.

29.09.2016

Genetic engineering

Genetically modified plants: expert opinion

Why people are afraid of GMOs, how the GMO ban will affect science, how China is fighting GMOs and multinational companies, and how GMOs interact with nature.

29.09.2016

Biomedicine

Rhinovirus vaccine

Scientists have tested such a vaccine on cell cultures and found out that it provokes the development of an immune response and the formation of antiviral antibodies.

29.09.2016

Your health

"Maiden memory" of genes

After we stopped playing sports, the genes in our muscles quickly return to normal, "unsportsmanlike" activity.

28.09.2016

Nanotechnology

A useful side effect

Scientists accidentally discovered that iron nanoparticles, which were created as a cure for anemia, cause macrophages to attack cancer cells.

28.09.2016

Other life sciences

The propeller in the heart

The tiny Heartmat heart pump is inserted into the femoral artery, along which it is moved to the left ventricle, where it maintains blood flow, helping the heart to recover.

28.09.2016

Cellular technologies

The first "child from three parents"

The boy was born on April 6 of this year, but doctors decided to notify the general public about his birth only now, when it became clear that Ley syndrome was not threatening him.

28.09.2016

Healthy skepticism

Smeared with one world

We recently wrote about the falsification of research results on the effect of sugar on health. And whether to believe the research on the benefits of sweeteners? First find out who funded them :)

27.09.2016

Cellular technologies

Cellular gene therapy

Experiments on an animal model have shown the possibility of treating Duchene's myodystrophy by delivering therapeutic genes in stem cells.

27.09.2016

Healthy skepticism

Natural selection of "bad science"

More than half a century has passed since the publication of Cohen's work, but scientists still talk about successes, hiding defeats, and some even falsify the results.

27.09.2016

Nanotechnology

Therapeutic tattoo

Carbon nanoparticles can selectively suppress the activity of T-lymphocytes and reduce the symptoms of autoimmune diseases. At the same time, it is preferable to inject them under the skin.

27.09.2016

Other life sciences

Neurotransmitters, part 1

In the first part of a small educational course, Atlas talks about three of the most famous neurotransmitters, without which our life would be simply disgusting.

26.09.2016

Biomedicine

Nanoteranostics – the future of oncology

Professor of the MEPhI National Research Institute and the University of Aix-Marseille, Andrey Kabashin, in an interview with RIA Novosti correspondent Yulia Osipova, about the global prospects of nanoteranostics.

26.09.2016

Genetic engineering

RNA against metastases

Modified regulatory RNA molecules sent to the tumor in nanoparticles discourage cancer cells from traveling.

26.09.2016

Nanotechnology

Micro-robots-infusoria

The micro robot created by Korean specialists, raking cilia under the influence of an electromagnetic field, floats eight times faster than its closest competitors.

26.09.2016

Genetics

Greetings to the descendants

Three stories about non-classical methods of inheritance that can pass for telegony: how inheritance can occur that is not related to the transmission of their parents' genes to descendants.

26.09.2016

Other life sciences

Man and his microbiome

There are a lot of bacteria and viruses living in each of us, they help digest food and assimilate medications, affect the hormonal and immune systems and even the brain.

23.09.2016

Genetic engineering

Regeneration of the optic nerve

Restoration of severed nerve pathways is an important achievement in the search for treatment of glaucoma and other eye diseases associated with damage to the optic nerve.

23.09.2016

Healthy skepticism

Shnobelevka-2016

This year, the winners received 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars. By the way, the director of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Mathematics back in 2009.

23.09.2016

Biomedicine

$3 billion to fight diseases

The main goal of the foundation created by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chen is to radically reduce the frequency of dangerous diseases and reduce their impact on the human body.

23.09.2016