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Your health

Lose weight quickly... and not for long

Six years after the show "The Biggest Loser", only one participant had less weight than at the end of the competition. The remaining 13 gained kilograms back.

10.05.2016
Other life sciences

Play Eterna Medicine!

With the help of the new version of the popular game, you will help Stanford scientists create a new test for diagnosing tuberculosis from a blood sample.

10.05.2016
Other life sciences

What do antibiotics threaten us with

Antibiotics enter the cells, suppress the mitochondria – and the cell does not feel well. The kidneys and liver are almost the first to suffer from them – their work is disrupted.

10.05.2016
Your health

Sprint training

Canadian physiologists have found out that a minute of endurance exercises can replace 50 minutes of regular workouts.

10.05.2016
Other life sciences

"Big brother is watching you"

Compact devices are already being used for diagnostics, monitoring and rehabilitation of patients. It is precisely such innovations that have become the topic of this article.

10.05.2016
Prolonging youth

Work prolongs life

Early retirement can be a risk factor for premature death, and working at retirement age, on the contrary, increases the survival rate of older people.

29.04.2016
Genetics

Twins, triplets and mom's genes

Scientists have identified two single-nucleotide polymorphisms, the presence of each of which increases a woman's chances of a multiple pregnancy by almost a third.

29.04.2016
Other life sciences

DNA for Microsoft

Microsoft is purchasing 10 million strands of synthetic DNA to test whether it is suitable for long-term storage of information.

29.04.2016
Other life sciences

Chronic inflammation tricks stem cells

Through the effects of interleukin-1, chronic inflammation causes hematopoietic stem cells to produce aggressive immune cells, to the detriment of the functioning of the blood system as a whole.

28.04.2016
Your health

Caution: holinolytics!

Elderly people taking drugs of the class of cholinolytics (anticholinergetics) leads to metabolic and structural changes in the brain, which entails the development of cognitive function disorders.

28.04.2016
Genetic engineering

CRISPR awaiting approval in Europe

The US Department of Agriculture has not included the varieties obtained using this technology in the category of GMOs. European regulatory structures intend to make a decision on this issue within a year.

28.04.2016
Cloning

Cloned tumors

Two students from the University of North Dakota have come up with a system for cloning tumors that will help select drugs for the individual treatment of cancer patients.

28.04.2016
Other life sciences

Fireflies – prototype of LCD diplays

Researchers from the Korean Institute of Science and Technology, following the principles of bionics, designed organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) based on the cuticle of fireflies.

27.04.2016
Biomedicine

AACR – 2016 Conference

The topic of individual cancer vaccines was in the spotlight at the annual conference of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

27.04.2016
Healthy skepticism

Happiness for everyone and for nothing

To make the vague prospects quite dizzying, sensational forecasts are regularly made about the imminent immortality, space tourism for several thousand dollars and the "death of hydrocarbons in 15 years."

27.04.2016
Biomedicine

microRNA against myeloid leukemia

A severe malignant blood disease known as acute myeloid leukemia can be cured by increasing the activity of a certain type of microRNA

27.04.2016