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Your health

Coenzyme Q10 will help with heart failure

The use of coenzyme Q10 in the treatment of heart failure halves both the risk of a sharp deterioration in the condition of patients and their mortality rate from all causes.

28.05.2013
Your health

How to reduce the risk of hearing loss?

Household appliances, highways, audio devices with headphones, loud music are threats to our hearing. In addition, there are about 200 drugs and chemicals that can damage the structures of the inner ear.

28.05.2013
Your health

What is the good of the anti-smoking law

On the eve of the entry into force of the anti-smoking law on the impact of smoking on lung cancer and other types of cancer "to the Newspaper.Ru" said corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, President of the Cancer Society of Russia David Zaridze.

28.05.2013
Various

Where to go to study?

On the eve of the summer admission to universities, the Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation published its version of the answer to the question "Where to go to study?" – rating of higher educational institutions in Russia.

28.05.2013
Biomedicine

Urine analysis for early and rapid diagnosis of cancer

During testing, P-scan detected breast cancer even in cases when it was not detected during mammography. The researchers hope to optimize this technique for diagnosing other types of cancer from a urine sample.

27.05.2013
Other life sciences

Another property of rapamycin

The discovery of the mechanism by which rapamycin slows down cell division makes it a promising drug for the treatment of certain cancers and other proliferative diseases.

27.05.2013
Cellular technologies

Coming out of a coma

Nine weeks after the brain damage, the boy began to be injected intravenously with his own umbilical cord blood, after which a relatively rapid improvement in his condition was recorded.

27.05.2013
Your health

Patient errors

Yes, medical errors do happen, but these are usually only isolated cases. But the wrong actions of the patients themselves in everything that concerns their health often lead to more serious consequences.

24.05.2013
Your health

The most useful drinks for the kidneys

Beer is the most effective in this regard – its regular consumption reduces the likelihood of developing kidney stones by almost half.

24.05.2013
New in Gerontology

Alzheimer's treatment: another ray of hope?

The introduction of TSPO (translocator protein, carrier protein) ligands significantly mitigated pathological phenomena in old mice with Alzheimer's disease model and improved animal memory.

24.05.2013
Grants and competitions

Elevator to the future – the next stage

The charitable Foundation "Sistema" announces a new round of the scholarship program "Elevator to the Future" – for the first semester of the 2013-2014 academic year.

24.05.2013
Healthy skepticism

PR-mastectomy

Although Angelina Jolie is leading a brilliant public campaign, her actions potentially provide billions of dollars in revenue to the industry of owners of patents for human genes.

24.05.2013
Your health

"Chinese flu": be careful, but don't panic

The risk of infection is high for medical workers who are in close contact with patients. As for the transmission of the virus by air, animal studies have shown that it is unlikely. The same applies to people.

24.05.2013
Other life sciences

Microbes-calculators

A group of bioengineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created "analog calculators" based on living unicellular microorganisms.

24.05.2013
Biomedicine

Universal nanovaccine against influenza

American scientists have developed and successfully tested on animals a universal flu vaccine based on the use of self-ordering protein nanoparticles synthesized in the laboratory.

24.05.2013
Grants and competitions

We answer children's questions

The Elevator to the Future program and MSU announce a competition "Just about Difficult" for students, postgraduates, young scientists to popularize their own scientific ideas and the ideas of their research groups, as well as for novice scientific journalists.

23.05.2013
Various

UN Report on Human Development in Russia

The report, which was presented at the Analytical Center under the Government of the Russian Federation, reports that living conditions are deteriorating in the country by many indicators.

23.05.2013
Grants and competitions

The possibilities of synthetic biology in projects

The project "Synthetic Biology" (ERASynBio) announced the holding of the first joint transnational competition of research projects: "The possibilities of synthetic biology through transnational innovative projects".

23.05.2013
Grants and competitions

The program "Mikhail Lomonosov" 2014-2015

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) announces the acceptance of applications for participation in the program of research scholarships and scientific internships "Mikhail Lomonosov" 2014-2015.

23.05.2013