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Prolonging youth

How to protect neurons from degeneration?

Scientists were able not only to confirm that reducing the amount of calories consumed slows down the degeneration of neurons, but also to show that drugs that activate the enzyme sirtuin-1 cause the same effect.

23.05.2013
Exhibitions and conferences

Bioindustry – 2013

The III International Exhibition and Conference "Bioindustry" will be held on October 16-18, 2013 at the Lenexpo exhibition Complex as part of the St. Petersburg International Health Forum.

22.05.2013
Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology and nanoscience

These two concepts have the same relation to each other as, say, engineering to theoretical physics. However, one common detail is the size of the object being studied/constructed.

22.05.2013
Other life sciences

Bacteriophages-symbionts

Scientists have found that the mucous membranes of animals attract symbiotic bacteriophages, which are able to protect the body from pathogenic bacteria.

22.05.2013
Your health

Alzheimer's disease: an easy way to prevent

B vitamins reduce the level of gray matter atrophy of the brain by more than seven times in those areas of the brain that are most vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease.

22.05.2013
Bioethics

Death Contract

UK politicians have developed a model of a contract on euthanasia, or a "death contract", which terminally ill people who wish to die can sign.

21.05.2013
Your health

Mediterranean diet against cancer and senile dementia

American scientists were able to establish the molecular mechanism underlying the anticancer effect of the Mediterranean diet, and Spanish scientists were able to identify its positive effect on the preservation of cognitive abilities in the elderly.

21.05.2013
Prolonging youth

Take care of your skin from a young age

The reasons why our skin loses freshness, tone and elasticity over time can be divided into three main categories: biological aging, environmental impact and mechanical aging.

21.05.2013
Grants and competitions

Innovation Forum is looking for startups

The Forum of Innovations Foundation announces the start of a competitive selection of the most promising startups in Russia.

21.05.2013
Genetics

Criminal DNA Database

The Federal Penitentiary Service has started collecting DNA from all Russian prisoners in order to create a single genetic database.

20.05.2013
Your health

Angelina Jolie is an example to all the guys

A resident of the UK has become the first man in the world to have his prostate removed after it turned out that he is a carrier of the "defective" BRCA2 gene.

20.05.2013
Cellular technologies

Cell therapy of the immune system

Scientists warn that they have not created a copy of the thymus gland. However, they have developed a tool that allows you to modulate the immune system in a way that has never been possible before.

20.05.2013
Cloning

Mitalipov is not going to clone a person

Human embryonic stem cells were obtained for the first time by the method of somatic cell nuclei transfer. But this method, commonly called therapeutic cloning, is unlikely to produce human clones.

20.05.2013
Biomedicine

Anti-cancer vaccine: a war on two fronts

The results of the study confirmed that the vaccine really works on two fronts and causes cancer cell lysis and antibody formation at the same time.

20.05.2013