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"Successful aging" should become a global priority

Unless effective strategies are developed to address the problems of an aging population, the growing burden of chronic diseases will have a very strong impact on the quality of life of older people.

10.11.2014
Other life sciences

Will verapamil help with diabetes?

Experiments on mice and human cells have demonstrated the ability of the antihypertensive drug verapamil to cure type 1 diabetes mellitus. Clinical trials of this approach will begin in the near future.

10.11.2014
Cellular technologies

When will an artificial heart become a reality?

Biophysicist Konstantin Agladze, a specialist in cardiac tissue engineering, talks about the current state and prospects of artificial tissues and organs.

07.11.2014
Nanotechnology

Nanosecurity: are you going the right way, comrades?

In many of the more than 6,000 articles analyzed in the review, the authors neglect the basic rules of toxicological studies, and it is impossible to draw any acceptable conclusion about the toxicity of nanoparticles from their results.

07.11.2014
Cellular technologies

Will embryonic stem cells help Parkinsonics?

Dopaminergic neurons from human ESCs started working in the brains of rats and restored their motor functions. The authors hope that the success of preclinical trials makes it possible to plan the start of clinical trials.

07.11.2014
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy in oncology

Previously, when patients were diagnosed with cancer, it seemed like a miracle to overcome the disease. But even today, medicine can safely resist the disease using a powerful weapon – gene therapy.

06.11.2014
New in Gerontology

The senile brain lacks chaperones

In the brain cells of both healthy and suffering from various (especially neurodegenerative) diseases of aging people, there is a decrease in the expression of genes of protective proteins – chaperones.

06.11.2014
Other life sciences

Medical laboratory in a home medicine cabinet

The wireless system with the help of miniature sensors will allow for comprehensive monitoring of the health status of patients at risk of developing cardiovascular diseases at home, including blood analysis.

06.11.2014
Other life sciences

Patch-biosensor

The unique patch is able to collect and transmit medical data in almost real time based on the analysis of the patient's sweat. In order to find out the results, you only need a smartphone.

05.11.2014
Innovative Russia

Made in Russia: Three-dimensional bioprinter

Russia has entered the race to create the perfect machine for organ printing: the first domestic 3D bioprinter called FABION was presented at the Open Innovations International Forum.

05.11.2014
Your health

Try the rabbit droppings…

Alternative medicine can be not only useless, but also dangerous. When does it make sense to convince people who firmly believe in the miraculous properties of beaver jet and homeopathy, and how to do it correctly?

05.11.2014
Genetics

The mysteries of the Y chromosome

Scientists have repeatedly predicted the imminent end of the Y chromosome, but it still holds – as befits a real male chromosome.

05.11.2014
Other life sciences

For athletes, resveratrol is useless and even harmful

Taking resveratrol alters the body's normal response to high-intensity physical activity. At the same time, resveratrol not only does not increase the effectiveness of training, but on the contrary, it neutralizes their effect on the body.

05.11.2014
Cellular technologies

Boiling histotripsy

Tissue treatment with high-intensity ultrasonic waves dilutes cells, leaving an almost intact extracellular matrix, theoretically suitable for use as a framework for growing tissues and organs.

05.11.2014
Note to the businessman

Peptides against alcohol addiction

Scientists from ADG-Pharm LLC, graduates of Lomonosov Moscow State University, presented a development that can bring the treatment of alcoholism to a qualitatively new level.

05.11.2014
Biomedicine

Gene therapy of leukemia

It can already be said that the trials are extremely successful: 27 out of 30 patients had complete remission, 19 are still in remission, and 15 out of 19 patients did not need additional treatment for this.

05.11.2014
Other life sciences

Cardiac epigenomics

Scientists at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg have mapped the epigenome of cardiac muscle cells – cardiomyocytes.

31.10.2014