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Your health

Eat butter, butter, gentlemen!

Replacing butter with vegetable fats rich in linoleic acid leads to a decrease in cholesterol levels in the blood, but does not affect the indicators of cardiovascular diseases.

14.04.2016
Other life sciences

Partial and temporary, but a victory

The first case in the history of medicine: a brain implant allowed a completely paralyzed person to control his hand. Unfortunately, the funding of the scientific project is coming to an end…

14.04.2016
Other life sciences

Why study capsid structures?

There are hundreds of places on the shells of viruses to which molecules can be attached, allowing the diagnosis and treatment of malignant tumors.

14.04.2016
Biomedicine

Sugar against atherosclerosis

Carbohydrates cyclodextrins inhibit the development of new atherosclerotic plaques in the vessels and help the old ones to dissolve.

14.04.2016
Genetics

Universal "aging genes"

Different species (C.elegans roundworms, fruit flies, mice and humans) have both species-specific and several dozen common mechanisms of aging and mortality.

14.04.2016
Your health

Esophageal cancer

One of the most characteristic malignant tumors of an elderly person is esophageal cancer. Much in the prevention of esophageal cancer and in its early detection depends on the patient himself.

13.04.2016
Genetic engineering

GM-mosquitoes fly to the rescue

The Brazilian authorities have allowed the release of genetically modified mosquitoes, which should reduce the population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that spread the Zika virus.

13.04.2016
Genetics

Protection against deadly mutations: details

Perhaps gene backups are not the only way to avoid the negative impact of mutations, and genes may have different systems of "safety net" for each other.

13.04.2016
Nanotechnology

Peptide nanotubes by template

Molecules of a certain class of peptides in an aqueous solution independently form transparent nanotubes with a diameter and length of exactly 100 nanometers.

13.04.2016
Biomedicine

Biosensor for the detection of tick-borne encephalitis

By the same principle, it is possible to develop probes for the detection of other viruses: take the right antibody and combine it with a bioluminescent protein using an already known technology.

12.04.2016
Biomedicine

Monoclonal antibodies

Timofey Nemankin, Head of the Antibody Development Department at BIOCAD Corporation – about one of the most modern and promising areas in cancer treatment.

12.04.2016
Genetics

Protection against deadly mutations

Analysis of the genomes of almost 600,000 people revealed that 13 of them were completely resistant to one of the mutations, which were 100% likely to lead to fatal diseases.

12.04.2016
Various

Pedophiles need your help

Approximately 1.2 million pounds is not enough to continue clinical studies of the drug, which may save pedophiles from their orientation.

12.04.2016
Cellular technologies

Beta cells from fat deposits

Using genetic methods, adipose tissue stem cells were differentiated into mature functional insulin-producing cells, almost identical to the patient's beta cells.

12.04.2016
Genetic engineering

On the same rake

Chinese biologists have made a new attempt to use the CRISPR/Cas9 system to edit the genome of human embryos – the same unsuccessful as the last time.

11.04.2016
Healthy skepticism

How a virus makes a boy out of a girl (2)

The end of the story is about a popular science duck, born through the joint efforts of popularizing journalists from different countries.

11.04.2016
Healthy skepticism

How a virus makes a boy out of a girl (1)

The story is about how popularizers spread ignorant obscurantism instead of knowledge and turned the fascinating history of scientific research into shameful clowning.

11.04.2016
Genetic engineering

Cellular gene therapy of spinal cord injuries

Transplantation of umbilical cord blood cells with a built-in combination of two genes producing axon and vascular growth factors caused a powerful therapeutic effect in rats.

11.04.2016