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About doping – with love

Is sport useful or harmful for sex and sex for sports? "Newspaper.Ru" understood what the scientific research conducted on this topic shows.

14.02.2014
Nanotechnology

Nanoparticles cured mice of myodystrophy

The introduction of rapamycin-loaded perfluorocarbon nanoparticles provided an improvement in the functions of skeletal and cardiac muscles in a mouse model of Duchenne myodystrophy.

13.02.2014
New in Gerontology

Mitochondrial beacons will predict life expectancy

The new technique makes it possible to predict the life expectancy of nematodes by the number of flashes of a protein that fluoresces when interacting with free radicals in mitochondria.

13.02.2014
Other life sciences

Magic glasses for oncologists

New high-tech glasses allow oncological surgeons to see clusters of malignant cells of millimeter diameter turning blue.

13.02.2014
Genetic engineering

Genomic surgery

CRISPR and other new technologies make it possible to edit specific DNA fragments with high accuracy, up to the replacement of one pair of nucleotide bases. In fact, they allow you to rewrite the human genome at will.

13.02.2014
Other life sciences

Hold the biosensor in your teeth

A sensor built into the training mouthpiece for monitoring metabolites in saliva can provide important information about the athlete's condition in real time.

12.02.2014
Nanotechnology

Improved miRNA Delivery method

Lipid containers carrying therapeutic RNA can be configured for delivery to a strictly defined organ by indicating the final "address" on their surface with the help of amino acids.

12.02.2014
Various

The Olympic old lady

There is nothing special about the 94-year-old participant of the Sochi Olympics. She just doesn't let herself get old.

12.02.2014
Nanotechnology

Prepare the cage for the experience…

The contents of the cell can be turned into a homogeneous soup using intracellular nanomixers controlled by ultrasound and magnetic field.

12.02.2014
Biomedicine

Vitamin C against cancer

Intravenous administration of high doses of vitamin C in combination with standard chemotherapy for ovarian cancer reduces the toxic effect of the latter and contributes to the destruction of cancer cells.

12.02.2014
Biomedicine

About the dangers of smoking and the benefits of nicotine

American popularizer of science Dan Hurley published the book "How to become smarter", in which, among other things, he talked about the benefits of nicotine. The most infamous alkaloid may be the most effective cognitive enhancer.

11.02.2014
Bioethics

Palliative medicine and drugs: pros and cons

One of the most important problems of palliative medicine in our country is a complex procedure for accounting and trafficking of narcotic drugs. As a result, terminal patients do not receive pain relief on time, receive it in insufficient quantities or do not receive it at all.

11.02.2014
Healthy skepticism

Apply for an HIV vaccine!

Experts have great doubts about the idea of the Immunity Project, which offers everyone to chip in to test their HIV vaccine.

11.02.2014
Various

Doping from WOUNDS in the journal Science

Drawing attention to the publication in the journal Science about how German journalists received a new Russian doping from a scientist from the Russian Academy of Sciences, "Gazeta.Ru" found out that the doping in question is not new and not Russian.

11.02.2014
Genetics

How much Indy does it take to extend life?

The maximum lifespan of drosophila is provided by a moderate amount of the protein of the mutant Indy gene (from the English I'm Not Dead Yet – I'm not dead yet); a little less is its overexpression. Flies with two normal copies of this gene live significantly less.

11.02.2014
Biomedicine

Reducing "bad" cholesterol: another promising method

The data obtained by Danish scientists can open a new chapter in the treatment of atherosclerosis and make it possible to develop a new, effective drug to reduce the so-called "bad" cholesterol.

10.02.2014
Various

Visual science

Modern science is complex, and the issue of knowledge transfer to society is more acute than ever. Therefore, those who make visual material should be carried on their hands.

10.02.2014
Other life sciences

What's inside the cage?

The new microscopy method allows to obtain three-dimensional images, which simultaneously represent dozens of different biomolecules that are part of a single cell.

10.02.2014