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Your health

The benefits and harms of mammography

Analysis of the results of 11 randomized clinical trials has shown that routine mammography reduces the risk of death from breast cancer, but at the same time is the cause of overdiagnosis.

01.11.2012
Genetic engineering

The first swallow of gene therapy

For the first time in the EU, it is allowed to use the drug alipogene tiparvovec for gene therapy of a rare hereditary pathology – lipoprotein lipase deficiency (type I hyperlipoproteinemia).

31.10.2012
Theories of aging

Cancer and aging: a mini-review

Old cells, on the one hand, act as tumor suppressors, and on the other hand, the specific metabolism of old cells can cause the malignancy of neighboring precancerous cells.

30.10.2012
Your health

Unhealthy living conditions

The results of the implementation of the Government decree "On the organization in the Russian Federation of a system of federal statistical observations on socio-demographic problems and monitoring of economic losses from mortality, morbidity and disability of the population."

30.10.2012
Cellular technologies

Kidneys "from a test tube": one step closer

Due to incubation in a solution of vascular endothelial growth factor, organoids grown from a suspension of cells continued to mature in rat organisms after implantation and acquired the ability to filter blood and perform other kidney functions.

30.10.2012
Other life sciences

Stem Cell Bodyguards

A rare and previously unknown subgroup of immune cells – macrophages – maintains the "eternally young" state of hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow, preventing their differentiation.

29.10.2012
Grants and competitions

BIO Formula

Graduates of leading Russian biological, chemical, medical, technical and managerial universities will be able to participate in the Formula BIO program.

27.10.2012
Biomedicine

Is resveratrol useless for healthy people?

In a study involving 29 post-menopausal women who did not have type 2 diabetes and were relatively healthy, it was not possible to detect the slightest effect from taking resveratrol.

26.10.2012
Innovative Russia

Biotechnologies in Russia: restructuring and acceleration

The Russian biotech sector, lagging behind IT by about a decade in terms of development, is successfully "catching up" with it, according to Evgeny Zaitsev, general partner of the Helix Ventures Fund.

26.10.2012
Your health

A drop of alcohol kills a rat

Before enthusiastically "treating" yourself with red wine for future cardiovascular problems or warming up your appetite with a portion of something stronger, ask yourself if you are ready to pay for it with your own memory.

25.10.2012
Genetics

How will a placebo affect you?

The ability to predict the placebo effect in advance, based on the analysis of variations of just one gene, will help reduce the scale, cost and duration of clinical trials.

25.10.2012