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Healthy skepticism

From vegetarian cuisine to vegetarian water

According 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".

11.07.2014
Genetic engineering

Pharmaceutical factories on a Brazilian farm

Chinyu 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
Controversial

My telomeres are getting longer... longer... even longer…

"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.

10.07.2014
Other life sciences

Multiple Sclerosis Treatment: SOX10 – another hope

Identification 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.

09.07.2014
Your health

How many years does obesity shorten life?

The 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.

09.07.2014
Cellular technologies

microRNAs will help grow the retina from stem cells

Restoration 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.

08.07.2014
Biomedicine

Cholesterol and breast cancer

A large-scale statistical study revealed the relationship between high blood cholesterol and a more than one and a half times increased risk of breast cancer.

08.07.2014
Cellular technologies

Cell therapy: possible side effects

Experimental stem cell therapy, even conducted under appropriate conditions by qualified specialists, can have unpredictable consequences.

08.07.2014
Other life sciences

Obesity is "good" and "bad"

People with "healthy obesity" and those with obesity should lead to metabolic disorders and type 2 diabetes differ in the level of the enzyme hemoxygenase-1, necessary for the development of metabolic syndrome.

08.07.2014
Other life sciences

The diversity of intestinal microflora has increased by 3 times

Danish biologists have identified more than 500 previously unknown bacterial species in the human intestinal microflora, as well as about 800 new bacteriophages. So far, the genomes of only 200-300 microorganisms living in the intestine have been sequenced.

08.07.2014
Innovative Russia

Biomedtech 2014 Job Fair

At least 200 applicants and 15 employer companies came to Biomedtech 2014, including the largest players in the Russian and global market of pharmaceuticals, biotechnologies, R&D in the field of biopharmaceuticals.

08.07.2014
Genetics

Your genetic uniqueness is a mere trifle

The human genome contains only one thousandth of the unique information that is responsible for his personal uniqueness. This information will fit on one ancient 3.5-inch floppy disk.

07.07.2014
Biomedicine

Remote-controlled contraceptive

MicroCHIPS specialists have developed an ideal contraceptive – a biochip implanted under the skin, effective for 16 years and activated/inactivated at the request of a woman.

07.07.2014
Biomedicine

Method of prevention of deep vein thrombosis

Suppression of the activity of blood clotting factor XIII reduces the number of red blood cells in a blood clot, which reduces its size by 2 times. This discovery is of great importance for people at high risk of developing deep vein thrombosis.

07.07.2014
Various

"Acidic" stem cells: the investigation is over, forget it

Japanese researchers have finally withdrawn from the journal Nature both articles describing the so-called STAP technology for converting adult cells into pluripotent stem cells by immersion in an acidic environment.

07.07.2014
Various

What is not added to the sausage…

Among other things, biotechnologists of the FEFU School of Biomedicine offered their Japanese colleagues to taste sausage with jellyfish and sausages with seaweed, which are 15-30% cheaper than what we consider sausages. Germans and Czechs were not invited to the tasting :)

04.07.2014