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Your health

Healthy Lifestyle – 2013: exposing myths

The year was marked by the exposure of many myths about a healthy lifestyle and healthy nutrition. Antioxidants have fallen into disgrace, omega-acids have been under suspicion – and only bad habits have retained their unconditional harmfulness.

27.12.2013
Biomedicine

Blocking microRNAs to fight atherosclerosis

The experimental method of combating atherosclerosis is to neutralize the microRNA that suppresses the activity of the gene that regulates inflammatory processes in the endothelium.

27.12.2013
Other life sciences

Sirtuins and mitochondria: new data

Researchers have identified hundreds of mitochondrial proteins that undergo modification and subsequent regulation by sirtuin SIRT5. These findings have far-reaching implications for understanding metabolism in both normal and pathological conditions.

27.12.2013
Innovative Russia

Business angels spread their wings

Russian business angels invested more than $116.5 million in early-stage projects in 11 months of 2013. This is almost 4.5 times more than in 2012.

26.12.2013
Various

Medicine-2013

"Newspaper.Ru" recalls the achievements of medicine in 2013: bionic prostheses, cancer immunotherapy, HIV protection and other developments of scientists in the clinic and laboratory.

26.12.2013
Biomedicine

Unique technology will help treat brain diseases

The Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences became one of the winners of the RFBR competition "Complex interdisciplinary fundamental research in the field of molecular and cellular organization of biological structures and processes". However, the size of the grant can only be viewed through a microscope:(

26.12.2013
Nanotechnology

The silver light of DNA

Russian scientists from the Faculty of Physics of St. Petersburg State University managed to stabilize silver clusters in solution using DNA nanoparticles. This made it possible to create chemically stable biocompatible fluorescent labels with high brightness.

26.12.2013
Other life sciences

Open source Nematode

The authors of the OpenWorm project, which aims to create an exact computer copy of the C.elegans roundworm, have announced significant success in modeling this nematode. The source code of the program is published in the public domain.

26.12.2013
Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology against epidemics

Gene-RADAR technology can be used not only to detect diseases of a particular person. Data uploaded to the cloud from multiple Gene-RADAR devices allows you to determine the spread of epidemics.

25.12.2013
Innovative Russia

A unique science park has been formed in St. Petersburg

The most modern and heavy-duty equipment for conducting research in various fields of molecular and cellular biology is concentrated here, which has brought the work of St. Petersburg scientists to a fundamentally new level.

25.12.2013
Biomedicine

Cancer Treatment: a homing virus for targeted gene therapy

American researchers have created a therapeutic gene carrying a self-directed deactivated virus that does not "get stuck" in the liver, the target of which is the inner lining of the blood vessels of the tumor.

25.12.2013
Other life sciences

Big Data for Personalized Medicine

Big Data technologies do not just reduce the research time from a whole year to several weeks. They help doctors identify the increased risks of developing new syndromes and recurrent seizures in patients and prescribe appropriate medications in time.

25.12.2013
Biomedicine

New advances in cancer immunotherapy

An improved method of modifying T-lymphocytes with the help of mRNA gives hope for the use of immunotherapy for the treatment of solid tumors.

25.12.2013
Various

They say that there will be a nylon heart…

Replacing a real heart with an artificial one is monstrously difficult. And every successful step in this direction, such as the one made recently in France, is all the more important.

24.12.2013
Cellular technologies

Artificial kidney – step by step

Scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have achieved differentiation of stem cells into renal tubule cells. This is the fifth article this year about approaches to creating a full-fledged bioengineered kidney.

24.12.2013
Genetics

Shut up, Gen, shut up!

By improving the structure consisting of hairpin RNA and microRNA, scientists were able to significantly increase the efficiency and accuracy of RNA interference for gene silencing (suppression of the synthesis of their proteins, from the English silence - to be silent).

23.12.2013