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Biomedicine

Cholesterol Debate: Past, Present and Future (2)

Modern standards for the treatment of patients with high cholesterol are definitely outdated. It's time to start a dialogue, the purpose of which will be to correct them.

31.01.2012
Other life sciences

Blood pressure and free radicals

Free radicals, which are one of the causes of aging and cancer development, play a positive role in the regulation of blood pressure.

30.01.2012
Various

Murderous inequality

Social inequality is killing us. And in the literal sense of the word. Scientists have finally found an explanation for this phenomenon.

30.01.2012
Genetics

Are you afraid of Alzheimer's disease?

The opinion that if a person in the family has a "gene predisposition to Alzheimer's disease", he will also necessarily get sick is nothing more than a myth. In fact, such a connection is detected only in 1% of cases.

30.01.2012
Various

A free donor or a sex maniac?

Women who use the services of a voluntary sperm donor save a couple hundred dollars, but take on a risk comparable to conception from a casual relationship.

30.01.2012
Biomedicine

Check for yourself if you have a papilloma virus

Self-testing for human papillomavirus, which is the cause of cervical cancer in more than 90% of cases, can become the main method of screening women regardless of the availability of medical monitoring programs.

27.01.2012
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy for the treatment of blindness

The results of testing on dogs indicate that a new method of gene therapy for retinal pigment degeneration in the near future may solve the problem of one of the main causes of blindness.

27.01.2012
Cellular technologies

Alzheimer's in vitro

Scientists have obtained neurons with Alzheimer's syndrome from skin cells of people suffering from this disease.

27.01.2012
Various

Economy and diseases: the prognosis is unfavorable

Increasingly, public organizations and governments regard the increase in the incidence of non-communicable pathology as a dangerous medical and social problem and one of the main threats to the growth of the world economy.

26.01.2012
Prolonging youth

Forever young and forever drunk

The main rules for prolonging youth with alcohol: take a little, but regularly, start from the first days of life, do not snack and ... be born a worm.

24.01.2012
Note to the businessman

Startups are expensive now

The average cost of launching an innovative startup in Russia in April-June 2011 was 53 million rubles.

24.01.2012
Genetics

Genes and intelligence

Intellectual abilities are at least 75% inherited. Dieter Zimmer, a well-known scientific journalist and long-time editor of the culture department of the newspaper Die Zeit, comes to this conclusion in his new book.

24.01.2012
Biotechnologies - into life

Artificial organs: Russian gasoline, Italian ideas

On the basis of the Kuban Medical University, Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini is deploying a laboratory of regenerative medicine. It is assumed that in two years in Krasnodar they will learn how to grow human organs.

23.01.2012
Biomedicine

Spinal cord injury: how to keep intact nerves

Perhaps in the near future in the arsenal of veterinarians, and subsequently doctors, there will be a means to minimize the consequences of spinal cord injury.

23.01.2012