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New in Gerontology

Telomeres, histones and aging. And maybe rejuvenation…

The discovery of the connection between the shortening of telomeres and a decrease in the number of histones in the nucleus of cells as they age can be used to develop new methods of rejuvenation of an aging organism.

05.10.2010
Healthy skepticism

Russian scientists! Fight for the Nobel Prize!

The announcement of the Nobel laureates is now in full swing. The presentation of the IgNobelPrize, which in the Russian version is more often referred to as the "Nobel Prize", which took place the day before at Harvard, was also not ignored.

05.10.2010
Other life sciences

Nobel 2010: In vitro fertilization

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was awarded to Briton Robert Edwards for his work on in vitro fertilization (IVF)

05.10.2010
Innovative Russia

Biocluster start-up

How do the prospects for the appearance of a biocluster in St. Petersburg relate to its potential participants, as well as companies that have already entered the existing pharmaceutical cluster?

30.09.2010
Prolonging youth

Telomerase activator tested on humans

A group of independent scientists summed up the results of the study of the effect of telomerase activator TA-65 on the health of elderly people. The drug had the greatest rejuvenating effect on the immune system of the subjects.

17.09.2010
Prolonging youth

"Elixir of youth": explanations of a specialist

His son, Maxim Skulachev, one of the leaders of the largest biological project in Russia, told about whether Russian scientist Vladimir Skulachev really developed the "elixir of youth".

16.09.2010
Innovative Russia

I love huge innovation plans!

The 152-page Yaroslavl Plan provides an overview of the innovative experience of five countries, an analysis of the state of affairs and 15 recommendations for the development of innovations in Russia, plus 20 warnings made on the basis of other people's mistakes.

16.09.2010
Other life sciences

The death switch?

According to the researchers, the results of their work can lead to the creation of drugs that protect human organs from apoptosis – cellular "suicide".

15.09.2010
Other life sciences

Young old mice

Biologists from the USA and Singapore have modeled progeria on mice, a disease whose symptoms resemble signs of aging that appear much earlier than usual.

15.09.2010
Nanotechnology

Electronic touch

Artificial leather E-skin is the first material made of inorganic monocrystalline semiconductors, whose sensitivity to pressure is comparable to human touch.

14.09.2010
Various

Russian healthcare: diagnosis and prognosis

Medicine in Russia has five years left to live. Then a catastrophe will inevitably happen in our country, because the country cannot exist without medicine.

13.09.2010
Innovative Russia

Innovations in Russia: I cried

"The state of Russia's innovative development is deplorable," said Vladimir Lepsky, President of the Innovative Development Club of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

13.09.2010
Various

Advertising dietary supplements: prove that you are not lying!

According to EU legislation, in the advertising of dietary supplements, only those statements concerning the health of people who have passed an expert examination for authenticity and are officially authorized by the authorized body can be used.

10.09.2010
Other life sciences

The Great Immunological Revolution

Revolutionary breakthroughs in any field of science occur infrequently, once or twice a century. In immunology, such a revolution happened at the end of the last century.

10.09.2010
Bioethics

Buy a peaceful death!

An advertising campaign to legalize euthanasia will begin in Australia.

10.09.2010
Other life sciences

The choice between life and death: apoptosis or autophagy?

Under stress, the cell can end its life by apoptosis or survive with the help of partial self–eating - autophagy. Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh have found a key protein for autophagy and a chain of intracellular interactions associated with it.

09.09.2010
Prolonging youth

Horse doses of B vitamins against senile dementia?

In elderly people suffering from moderate cognitive impairment, but receiving vitamins B6 and B12 in doses 300 times higher than recommended, the rate of brain mass reduction slowed by an average of 30%.

09.09.2010
Other life sciences

The talking Brain

A speech synthesizer controlled by the electrical activity of the brain has been created. Perhaps in the foreseeable future, paralyzed patients will have an artificial voice in addition to brain-controlled mechanical limbs.

09.09.2010