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New in Gerontology

Lonely old age is a risk factor

Elderly people who feel lonely are characterized by a 59% higher risk of deterioration of health and a 45% higher risk of death.

20.06.2012
Grants and competitions

Competition of St. Petersburg grants

Subsidies are provided on a gratuitous and irrevocable basis to the winners of the competition of projects in the field of scientific and scientific-technical activities: up to 100 thousand rubles. for individuals and up to 200 thousand – for legal entities.

20.06.2012
Innovative Russia

Should we wash these technoparks or make new ones?

The technopark in Russia is being created for the sake of the technopark itself, and the achievement of its goal – the catalyzation of innovations – is lost in the three pines of economic, organizational and political interests.

20.06.2012
Various

Who is the thickest in the world :?)

All adults on the planet collectively weigh 285 million tons. At the same time, 15 million are overweight and 3.5 million are obese. The highest local body mass index is in North America.

20.06.2012
Your health

Once again about dirt and allergies

Western doctors claim that people who have grown up have the highest immunity... in unsanitary conditions. In a word, if today you forbid your child to dig in the dirt from morning to evening, then tomorrow you will have to take him to an allergist...

19.06.2012
Cellular technologies

The time of stem cells is approaching

More and more methods of using stem cells for the treatment of various diseases, including hereditary and age-related, are approaching clinical practice.

19.06.2012
New in Gerontology

A new way to fight aging and cancer?

Experts hope that preventing the development of cancer and other age-related diseases will only be a side effect of drugs developed based on the results of their work. The main result will be a slowdown in the aging process.

19.06.2012
Prolonging youth

We will make you live longer!

Chief therapist of Russia A.Chuchalin: "If we have an effective fight against tobacco smoking, then plus 10-15 years to the life (of the population)... If it works (the anti-smoking law), then we will come to this result."

19.06.2012
Nanotechnology

Plug the firefly into the socket

Nanorods that mimic the work of the luciferin pigment and the luciferase enzyme in the body of a firefly allow you to create a lighting system that will be much more efficient than LED lamps.

19.06.2012
Other life sciences

Cloud bioinformatics for "-omics"

The questions of where to store, how to store and how to provide access to the data that proteomics, genomics, microbiomics and other so-called "-omics" allow bioinformatic cloud technologies to answer.

19.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Corneal endothelium: cell therapy instead of transplantation

The work of Japanese scientists gives hope for the development of new methods of treating not only corneal endothelial dysfunction – the main cause of severe visual impairment, but also a number of other pathologies.

18.06.2012
Various

Move Grandma across the street!

76% of elderly men and 85% of elderly women are not able to cross the road in time for a green traffic light.

18.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Fetal stem cells against stroke

A stroke treatment method using a stem cell line isolated from the brain of a 12-week-old fetus has shown promising results in a small-scale clinical trial.

18.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Cell Reprogramming for Regenerative Medicine (3)

Human diseases can be considered as the total result of genetic, external and epigenetic factors, which should be taken into account when modeling diseases in vitro using reprogrammed cells.

15.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Cell Reprogramming for Regenerative Medicine (1)

The researchers hope that the differentiation of a patient's own iPSCs into cells responsible for the development of a particular disease will become a powerful new tool for theoretical biomedicine and clinical practice.

15.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Cell therapy of neurological diseases

Cell therapy shows great promise in the treatment of neurological diseases, but today such methods of treatment can only be resorted to within the framework of clinical studies.

15.06.2012