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Your health

Traffic light in the cafeteria

The use of color markings – as in traffic lights – to indicate healthy and more harmful foods increases sales of healthy products and reduces sales of less valuable ones.

31.10.2013
Biomedicine

Immunosuppressant against immunodeficiency

A type of congenital immunodeficiency caused by a rare mutation can be cured with rapamycin, an immunosuppressant, which 3 years ago became famous all over the world as a "pill for old age".

30.10.2013
Genetic engineering

Will gene therapy help sickle cell anemia patients?

A group of researchers from the Department of Pediatric Oncology at the Dana-Farber Institute (Boston, USA) has discovered a new potential target for the gene therapy of sickle cell anemia.

30.10.2013
Other life sciences

Taking anabolic steroids will be remembered for years

In the muscles of people who have taken anabolics for a short time, a cellular memory mechanism is formed, and even short-term exposure to anabolic steroids can affect the process of building muscle mass for years.

30.10.2013
Biotechnologies - into life

Breast milk will help cure cancer

Preclinical trials of an antitumor drug based on lactaptin, one of the proteins of breast milk, have been completed in Novosibirsk.

30.10.2013
Innovative Russia

Skolkovo was caught in sawing and kickbacks

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation implements a set of measures to compensate for damage and eliminate violations of the law during the implementation of the project to create the Skolkovo Innovation Center.

30.10.2013
Biomedicine

Antibody fragments help with Alzheimer's disease

Five days after a single intraperitoneal injection, the animals showed improved memory and learning ability as a result of a decrease in the number of toxic aggregates in brain tissue and an increase in the number of neurons.

30.10.2013
Healthy skepticism

Three myths about cancer

Experts from the cancer center of the Houston Methodist Clinic refute common misconceptions about malignant tumors.

29.10.2013
Cellular technologies

Gene therapy of skull injury

A genetic supplement developed by Russian scientists improves the restoration of skull defects.

29.10.2013
Your health

The optimal age of childbearing is a relative concept

Half a century ago, a 25-year-old girl was called an old-born, and nowadays women at 30 are just starting to think about children. Modern medicine works wonders... but are they always justified?

29.10.2013
Various

Support biomedicine!

The possibilities of biomedicine, including personalized medicine, problems and prospects of its development in Russia were discussed by the participants of the round table "Support for biomedicine today – a breakthrough in healthcare tomorrow".

29.10.2013
Bioethics

WHO against human trafficking

The shortage of healthy organs for transplantation leads to the phenomenon of "transplant tourism". The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Trafficking Joy Ngozi Ezeilo warned the General Assembly about this on Friday.

29.10.2013
Nanotechnology

Stealth nanoparticles with an anti-cancer warhead

MIT researchers have developed multilayer nanoparticles invisible to the immune system for precise drug delivery, attacking cells of non-chemotherapeutic breast cancer.

29.10.2013
Biomedicine

Will microRNAs save your vision?

A new approach to the treatment of ophthalmic diseases is based on the use of microRNAs that suppress the activity of the gene responsible for the process of pathological vascular growth.

28.10.2013
Your health

Life-saving cuff

Danish scientists from the University of Aarhus have proposed using a cuff from a conventional medical tonometer as a means of preventing large-scale myocardial necrosis in heart attack.

28.10.2013
Other life sciences

Transcriptomics methods are being improved

A method has been developed that allows you to quickly and accurately study the transcriptome (the totality of all RNAs) in an extremely small amount of biological material.

28.10.2013
Controversial

Is the harm of saturated fats exaggerated?

The health risks posed by saturated fats contained in foods such as butter, cakes and fatty meats are overstated and demonized, says a British cardiologist.

28.10.2013