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Genetics

Genes of aggressiveness – a mitigating circumstance?

An Italian court has reduced the sentence for murder after the defendant was found to have "aggressive genes". Lawyers around the world are increasingly trying to use MAO-A deficiency and similar genetic factors to protect the accused.

02.11.2009
Various

Will Russia be left without science?

Russia has 5-7 years left so that scientists and teachers of the older generation have time to prepare a new generation for science, education and high-tech industries.

30.10.2009
Cellular technologies

Eggs and spermatozoa from stem cells

It's still a long way to the clinic. But the fundamental possibility of obtaining germ cells from stem cells has already been confirmed.

30.10.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Russian pharmaceutical production ordered to expand and deepen

In general, as experts note, such a program (a Strategy for the development of the pharmaceutical industry for the period up to 2020) is necessary, even with some (so in the original – VM) utopianness of its main provisions.

29.10.2009
Genetics

Schizophrenia, autism and genetics

Psychiatrists and geneticists have found that doubling a small area on chromosome 16 increases the risk of developing schizophrenia by 8 times. Medical genetics has already encountered this site: its removal leads to the development of autism.

27.10.2009
Various

Do we always honor the elderly?

Elderly people are one of the most disadvantaged categories of citizens. The most difficult problem for lonely old people is their contact with our medicine.

26.10.2009
Biomedicine

Vaccines based on virus–like particles - fast, effective, safe

Safe and effective vaccines, the active component of which are virus-like particles, due to the speed of manufacture, can solve the long-standing problem of the timely appearance of vaccines against rapidly mutating influenza virus.

23.10.2009
Your health

Anti-obesity pills: Don't expect miracles

Modern means for the treatment of obesity have a lot of disadvantages. Drugs that are close to entering the market are combinations of well–known drugs, not something new. In those that are at earlier stages of development, serious side effects may be detected during clinical trials.

23.10.2009
Healthy skepticism

Get a prize and lose weight!

Nanopowning: a unique technique guarantees minus 10 kg and an exciting figure – without dieting and training, in just two weeks. Guess how?

22.10.2009
Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology: less noise!

The final book of the Nano-Hype study, which was funded by the American National Science Foundation, explicitly states the danger of the formation of a "nanobubble". Of course, many wonderful scientists and entrepreneurs are fruitfully engaged in nanotechnology. But it seems to them that all this hype not only helps, but also hinders.

22.10.2009
Nanotechnology

Russian Nanotechnology in Nature

Quirin Schirmayer, a columnist for Nature magazine, presented his vision of Russian investments in ambitious nanotechnology projects.

22.10.2009
Genetic engineering

Genetically modified geniuses

Hobbie-J rats with increased production of NR2B protein in the hippocampus as a result of genetic modification remember new objects three times longer than rats of the original (the smartest among rats) Long Evans line.

22.10.2009
Other life sciences

Scalpel will be able to "sniff out" tumors

A mass spectrometer connected to an electroscalpel installed in the oncosurgeon's operating room will distinguish malignant tissues from healthy ones based on their molecular characteristics.

21.10.2009
Healthy skepticism

Pseudoscience generates a new kind of organized crime

Pseudoscience has become a noticeable phenomenon in many countries of the world. In Russia in the 90s, about 200 different "academies" arose. And the main goal of many "academics" is to gut the pockets of our citizens.

21.10.2009