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Your health

HIV and AIDS: facts and myths

For example, among the surveyed students of Turkish universities, 16% believe that HIV infection and AIDS are a punishment for sins, 8% - that proper nutrition and sports will protect them from the virus, and 9% – that strong and passionate love is stronger than the disease.

20.01.2014
Other life sciences

Stem cells give their mitochondria to sick neighbors

The mitochondrial transfer carried out by mesenchymal stem cells with the help of the Miro1 protein promotes the restoration of the pulmonary epithelium in a mouse model of allergic inflammation of the respiratory tract.

20.01.2014
Cellular technologies

Leave stem cells embryonic

Scientists from the University of California at San Diego have identified a receptor for one of the key genes and a signaling pathway important for maintaining the undifferentiated state of human embryonic stem cells.

20.01.2014
Other life sciences

Cancer and alternative telomere lengthening: new data

So far , the explanation of the phenomenon of alternative telomere elongation has been reduced to the thesis: cancer cells can repair long, albeit "sloppy" looking, telomeres without telomerase. But exactly how this is done remained unclear.

20.01.2014
Healthy skepticism

Develop like steel!

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has approved the forecast of scientific and technological development of Russia until 2030.

20.01.2014
Genetic engineering

Choroideremia gene therapy: success is developing

With the help of gene therapy, scientists from the University of Oxford were able to partially restore vision to six more patients with a hereditary progressive form of blindness – choroideremia.

17.01.2014
Other life sciences

Barcode of tumor proteins

The new method allows you to find out with a minimum amount of material which proteins are synthesized by malignant tumor cells, and it can be found out in much more detail than traditional methods allow.

17.01.2014
Prolonging youth

Jonah Skulachev: Past, present, future

Do attempts to slow down aging contradict the data of modern science? What are mitochondrial antioxidants and why can they defeat age-related diseases? What have the developers of "ion Skulachev" managed to achieve today?

17.01.2014
Biomedicine

Anti-inflammatory microparticles will help with a heart attack

Negatively charged microparticles of a copolymer of lactic and glycolic acids with a diameter of 500 nm force inflammatory immune cells to commit suicide, so that damage to the heart after a heart attack is reduced by 2 times.

17.01.2014
Biotechnologies - into life

The thousand-dollar genome: close to the barrier

Gene therapy is entering a new era: the American company Illumina has created a comprehensive installation that allows radically reducing the cost of the genome decoding procedure.

17.01.2014
Note to the businessman

Money is the cause of all evil (G. Flaubert)

The richer we are, the less inclined we are to empathize with others and the stronger our confidence that we deserve everything we have. In addition, a high level of well-being determines the idea of avarice as a virtue, as well as the desire to represent the pursuit of personal gain as natural and moral.

16.01.2014
Various

Residences for the elderly

A hundred prosperous commercial nursing homes are a drop in the bucket. But not so long ago there were no private institutions in our country at all – so there is progress. It's up to the little ones – for the well-off old people.

16.01.2014
Genetic engineering

Why do scientists need glowing pigs

Genetic manipulation of mammals is aimed at solving serious medical and agricultural problems. But what connection can there be between a glowing pig and a human disease?

16.01.2014
Cloning

Hundreds of clones per year

The Chinese company BGI, engaged in genetic modification and cloning of pigs, has become one of the largest in this field. During the year, the organization's specialists produce several hundred clones of these animals.

16.01.2014