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Note to the businessman

Import substitution in a crisis

No one can answer the question of how soon the domestic pharmaceutical industry will be able to produce a sufficient number of medicines of the right quality.

09.09.2015
Biomedicine

Aspirin against cancer

The effectiveness of cancer drugs can be greatly enhanced with a simple supplement – aspirin, whose molecules suppress the ability of cancer cells to hide themselves from the immune system.

08.09.2015
Other life sciences

Neurons of alcoholism

Alcohol consumption alters the structure and activity of neurons in the striatum, the part of the brain responsible for purposeful controlled behavior.

08.09.2015
Other life sciences

Through the thorns…

American neurophysiologists have restored leg mobility to the famous extreme athlete Mark Pollock, who has been completely paralyzed since 2010 as a result of an accident.

08.09.2015
Biomedicine

Everything is poison and everything is medicine

The venom of Brazilian wasps has become an ideal "killer" of cancer cells for the reason that its molecules are "tuned" to work with those fats that are present only on the surface of cancer cells.

08.09.2015
Biomedicine

How Bacteria and Viruses Help Create Antibodies to Treat Humans

The invention of the phage display method made it possible to use the properties of bacteriophages in the search for new antibodies, which are extremely in demand for improving the diagnosis and therapy of many dangerous diseases.

08.09.2015
Various

Grandmothers are burning!

These older women (the group does not invite participants under 80 years old) are incredibly cute when they perform. Their energy and enthusiasm is amazing considering their age.

08.09.2015
Cellular technologies

Corneal restoration will become more accessible

Currently, oral cavity cells for the treatment of diseases of the cornea of the eyes are cultivated only in a few specialized centers in the world. A method that allows you to keep them for a week will make the treatment of vision loss more accessible.

07.09.2015
Other life sciences

Biomolecules on spokes

Bioengineers from the California Institute of Technology have learned how to create non-covalent complexes in the form of threads and tangles from DNA and special proteins.

07.09.2015
Various

Mortality and life expectancy in Russia: who is right?

According to Veronika Skvortsova, Russians live the longest in the world (!). Demographers believe that the situation with mortality has not changed for the better for half a century, and the current statistics do not reflect reality.

07.09.2015
Other life sciences

Mutation for bioremediation

A mutation in the gene of one of the arabidopsis enzymes gives the plant the opportunity to extract from the soil the toxic ones left after the explosions of trinitrotoluene.

07.09.2015
Your health

To the village, to Grandpa!

A new study confirms the "hygienic hypothesis": Belgian scientists have found out why children who grew up in the countryside suffer less from asthma and some types of allergies than urban children.

04.09.2015
Your health

Autoimmune diseases (3)

Some strategies for treating autoimmune diseases can be quite successful, but their side effects are unpleasant and sometimes dangerous. Many developments never reach the stage of clinical research.

04.09.2015
Genetics

Antibodies against the "stone man syndrome"

Researchers from the Regeneron group of biotech companies have uncovered the mechanism of transformation of muscle and connective tissue into bone growths in a rare hereditary disease and have developed antibodies that protect mice from this disease.

04.09.2015