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Your health

Allergy: facts and myths

If you think you have an allergy, you should contact an allergist for proper examination, diagnosis and treatment. Incorrect diagnosis and inappropriate treatment can be dangerous to health.

13.11.2013
New in Gerontology

Is accelerated aging a result of depression?

Clinical depression can accelerate the aging processes in cells, which is manifested not only by a deterioration in well–being, but also at the molecular level - by a reduction in the length of telomeres.

13.11.2013
Other life sciences

Unraveling cancer's resistance to chemotherapy

The method by which the activity of any gene in a cell can be turned on has made it possible to detect all the molecular tricks by which skin cancer cells acquire resistance to chemotherapy.

13.11.2013
Your health

Diabetes: who is warned…

Endocrinologist L.Zaitsev tried to collect and present to readers little-known and curious facts about diabetes mellitus – one of the most common diseases of our time.

12.11.2013
Other life sciences

Metabolomics for dummies

Metabolomics, one of the powerful analytical approaches known as "–omics", is designed to determine the chemical profile of cellular metabolism in unprecedented resolution.

12.11.2013
Other life sciences

Mapping cancer markers: Join us!

Another biomedical project, Mapping Cancer Markers, has joined the distributed computing network based on the World Community Grid association.

11.11.2013
Cellular technologies

Induced absolutely pluripotent stem cells

Researchers from the Weizmann Institute have created induced pluripotent stem cells, completely returned to the earliest state, and have learned to suppress the desire of cells to differentiate.

11.11.2013
Prolonging youth

Language? Give me two!

Senile dementia (dementia) in people who speak two languages occurs four and a half years later than in those who speak only their native language.

08.11.2013
Other life sciences

He'll heal like a young man

Scientists have discovered a gene whose activation causes the tissues of adult mice to recover as quickly as in young animals.

08.11.2013
Your health

Flu-2013: get vaccinated or not?

Apparently, this year we will have to protect ourselves from the flu by washing our hands (a very effective measure) and hope that domestic vaccines will someday become no worse than imported ones.

08.11.2013
Cellular technologies

An unexpected side effect of blood cancer treatment

Bone marrow transplantation not only saved the life of a ten-year-old child with acute lymphocytic leukemia, but also saved him from peanut allergy, which was previously considered incurable.

08.11.2013
Various

Philippines: the fashion for stem rejuvenation

The elderly Filipino elite is actively rejuvenated by stem cells, including those obtained from sheep embryos. The poor are offered cheap, but clearly quack methods of "cell therapy".

08.11.2013
Innovative Russia

"Biopharmaceutical Nobel Prize" – to Russian scientists

The winners of the Galen Prize in 2013 were A.Sobolev and A.Rosenkrantz from the Institute of Gene Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as V.Lunin from the Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology.Gamalei. Their development will allow thousands of times to increase the effectiveness of drugs and, above all, in oncology.

07.11.2013
Biomedicine

Micro-RNAs, omnipresent and omnipotent

In 2001, microRNA was recognized as the "molecule of the year" by the journal Science. For 12 years, the number of publications on this topic has exceeded one million.

07.11.2013
Biomedicine

Hepatitis C: victory is close

In the course of phase 2 clinical trials of hepatitis C treatment methods with various combinations of drugs, one hundred percent cure of patients was achieved.

06.11.2013