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Genetics

The two - faced MC1R gene

A mutation in the MC1R gene determines the presence of red hair and fair skin in a person and, as it turned out, on the one hand, it reduces the risk of prostate cancer and increases the likelihood of skin cancer – melanoma.

27.08.2013
Other life sciences

Stress, cancer and immunity

A cancerous tumor metastasizes more actively when the ATF3 stress gene in immune cells is activated, causing the death of macrophages.

26.08.2013
Other life sciences

Damaged, sick and old muscles will be restored by Pax7

Understanding how the Pax7 protein works will help make satellite cells as active as possible. This may lead to a revolution in the treatment of muscular dystrophy and, perhaps, will preserve muscle strength in old age.

26.08.2013
Biomedicine

Innovations in oncology

The anti-cancer drugs described here, which the FDA has awarded the status of "revolutionary therapy", are already undergoing clinical trials. It remains to be hoped that their effectiveness will be confirmed and the drugs will soon be approved for use in oncological practice.

26.08.2013
Various

"Clear Internet" for pensioners and the disabled

The III All-Russian Computer All-Around Championship among pensioners and persons with disabilities will be held within the framework of the conference. Its participants will be more than 70 people aged 55 to 73 years.

26.08.2013
Your health

The satiety hormone will not help fat people

When a person gains excess weight or is obese, the "satiety hormone" – glucagon – no longer causes a feeling of satiety, and using it to reduce the level of food consumption in overweight people may be ineffective.

26.08.2013
Various

We don't need bread – let's get a job!

The new study is likely to please workaholics. According to the results obtained, fewer hours spent at work does not add joy to everyday life.

23.08.2013
Various

Beauty is under threat

Evolutionists believe that in three hundred years humanity will be bald. In the meantime, scientists are looking for ways to preserve hair and rely on stem cells.

23.08.2013
Prolonging youth

A new approach to protecting the skin from aging

It was found that it is possible to reduce the intensity of age-related skin changes and improve wound healing processes by inhibiting the activity of the enzyme 11beta-HSD1.

23.08.2013
Exhibitions and conferences

Winter Youth Scientific School

The XXVI Winter Youth Scientific School "Promising areas of physico-chemical biology and biotechnology" will be held in Moscow on February 10-14, 2014.

23.08.2013
Other life sciences

Cancer node

The activity of cancer mRNAs depends on the mutual work of two proteins that untangle loops and knots on the regulatory site of such mRNAs and enable the ribosome to begin synthesis of the cancer protein on it.

22.08.2013
Other life sciences

The cause of pain is not inflammation, but bacteria

Scientists have revised the view of the source of pain in infectious tissue damage. Pain neurons are affected not by inflammation, but by multiplying bacteria. In addition, it turned out that pain does not stimulate, but suppresses the immune response.

22.08.2013
New in Gerontology

Aging by inheritance

Scientists have shown for the first time that the aging process occurs not only as a result of the accumulation of mutations in mitochondrial DNA during life. Mutations inherited from the mother can accelerate the aging process.

22.08.2013
Genetics

New Hope for Alzheimer's treatment

It is possible that existing drugs that suppress the expression of the CD33 gene may have the potential to reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

22.08.2013
New in Gerontology

Senile dementia in diabetes: risk calculator

Dutch and American researchers studied the data of about 30 thousand diabetics aged 60 years and older over a ten-year period. They found 8 factors that most often precede the development of senile dementia.

21.08.2013
Other life sciences

Legalize psychedelics?

Statistical analysis shows that the use of LSD, psilocybin and similar substances does not cause dependence and does not cause long-term damage to the psyche.

21.08.2013