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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
Innovative Russia

Start upgrading from yourself!

The head of RVC: modernization of consciousness is necessary for the modernization of the economy.

08.09.2010
Healthy skepticism

Scientists have rediscovered...

Reports on scientific discoveries should be read carefully, without rushing to immediately believe everything and exactly in the form in which it is written in a magazine or newspaper. Even if it looks written very seriously.

08.09.2010
Genetics

Gene recombination of genes

Recombination of genes makes possible the genetic diversity of people. Jeffries and colleagues were able to localize the DNA regions where most of the recombinations occur and isolate the gene that encodes the protein that provokes this phenomenon.

08.09.2010
Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology: definitions and classification

"The development of definitions and classifications in the field of nanotechnology is a rather difficult task," the authors of the article write in the introduction. They quite managed to solve this difficult task :)

08.09.2010
Nanotechnology

Graphene Nanoparticles against cancer

The ability of graphene to accumulate in cancer cells and absorb radiation well in the near infrared frequencies gives hope for another way to burn out tumors using nanoparticles.

08.09.2010
Cellular technologies

We will grow neurons according to the customer's sketches

Growing the right neurons is more difficult than you can imagine. The fact is that populations of nerve cells have several hundred subpopulations, each of which has its own individual "route" of development.

07.09.2010
Other life sciences

A prosthetic kidney instead of hemodialysis?

Tests of a prototype of an implanted artificial kidney, which may someday replace hemodialysis, were successful. True, the model still occupies an entire room, but the developers promise to make it smaller in five years.

07.09.2010
Healthy skepticism

Malakhov minus

Journalists of Komsomolskaya Pravda have already joined the search for Gennady Malakhov. His current and past partners in the Malakhov+ program also do not know about Malakhov's whereabouts.

07.09.2010
Innovative Russia

The Innovation and Investment Salon opens today

About 500 applications have already been submitted for participation in the traditional Competition of innovative developments and technologies, the purpose of which is to determine the most promising and ready-to-use innovations.

07.09.2010
Innovative Russia

Small innovative entrepreneurs! Keep your pocket even wider!

Subsidies for the technological development and modernization of the production of small and medium-sized innovative enterprises for the development and manufacture of medical devices and the creation of pharmaceuticals have been increased to 10 million rubles.

06.09.2010
Biomedicine

JAML – activator of epithelial immunity

The detection of a molecule that activates gamma/delta T lymphocytes gives pharmacists a potential target for controlling the healing processes of damaged epithelium.

06.09.2010
Biomedicine

Gene therapy against lower limb ischemia

For more than 20 years, scientists have been developing non-surgical methods for the treatment of lower limb ischemia. Gene therapy drugs are now considered one of the most promising areas in this field.

06.09.2010