About love, gluttony and other drugs
The neurochemical processes that occur with drug addiction are similar to those that occur with romantic love, Internet addiction or a tendency to overeating.
15.07.2014The neurochemical processes that occur with drug addiction are similar to those that occur with romantic love, Internet addiction or a tendency to overeating.
15.07.2014Mutation in the huntingtin gene leads to the development of severe neurodegenerative disease. But the normal form of this protein is necessary for the proper adjustment of interneuronal connections in the developing brain.
15.07.2014Plasters and medications in the fight against smoking can achieve more than just medications.
14.07.2014Biophysicist Nikolay Borisov – about personalized medicine, targeted medicines, classes of medicines and breast cancer.
14.07.2014One of the typical horror stories, which are used for selfish purposes, was again voiced by the media a few weeks ago. They began to scare us with palm oil, which is supposedly very harmful and dangerous.
14.07.2014The plot about the "disappearance of the red gene" as a result of global warming is a hyped sensation advertising genetic testing. Red hair isn't going anywhere.
11.07.2014A Russian participant in the project to create a genetic atlas of cancer spoke about the study of the molecular picture of a type of lung cancer that is not associated with smoking – lung adenocarcinoma.
11.07.2014An increasing amount of data suggests that widely used inexpensive drugs exhibit antitumor effects and can be used as part of complex cancer therapy.
11.07.2014Some cell phone users believe that it causes cancer, worsens overall health and can even cause a plane crash. Is this really the case?
11.07.2014The use of the most popular gene modification techniques does not increase the number of mutations occurring in stem cells.
11.07.2014Tibetans have rare alleles of this EPAS1 gene, which, among other things, increase the amount of hemoglobin in the blood. The same "Tibetan" alleles are found in the genome of the Denisov man.
11.07.2014According to the advertisement, the device with advanced multi-stage filtration technology based on "non-electric gravity" (!) removes 99.9% of bacteria and viruses, and the buyer receives "clean, safe and vegetarian water".
11.07.2014Chinyu and Camila became the founders of two lines of transgenic goats. They have already had offspring who have successfully inherited the ability to produce human protein important for hematopoiesis.
10.07.2014"If you had told me ten years ago that meditation would become one of the areas of my work, I would have decided that one of us is definitely crazy," Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn told the New York Times in 2007.
10.07.2014Identification of the SOX10 transcription factor in human brain cells, which initiates the process of myelination of nerve fibers, brings scientists closer to the possibility of treating multiple sclerosis by transplanting brain cells synthesizing myelin to patients.
09.07.2014Thousands of hours spent playing a musical instrument will not necessarily make a new Paganini or Horowitz out of a student in the absence of a genetic predisposition.
09.07.2014The number of lost years of life in people with pathological obesity, depending on BMI, ranges from 6.5 to 13.7 years. The increased mortality in this group is mainly due to heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
09.07.2014European neurophysiologists are calling for a boycott of the largest computer brain modeling project, for which more than €1 billion will be allocated. They think it's a waste of money.
09.07.2014Restoration of the expression of microRNA-182 and microRNA-183 induced the formation of outer segments of photoreceptors in the retina grown from embryonic stem cells and restored the retina sensitivity to light.
08.07.2014All the statements underlying the boom in sales and prescriptions of testosterone-containing supplements have almost nothing to do with reality.
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