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Other life sciences

Parthenogenesis: undivided motherhood

Parthenogenesis in wildlife is not something exceptional. It is surprising, however, that sometimes species of living organisms resort to parthenogenesis, which previously, as they say, were not noticed in this.

11.03.2009
Healthy skepticism

Sellers of immortality

The most famous product from the price list of sellers of immortality is cryopreservation. Anyone can buy an even more shaky surrogate of immortality, and not for tens of thousands of dollars, but for absolutely ridiculous money.

11.03.2009
Biomedicine

Vaccine for all diseases

Scientists from the Research Institute named after Ellen Scripps cured mice of two types of tumors at once with one vaccine and an additional injection: melanoma and colon cancer. Moreover, tumor resistance was only a demonstration of a new approach, which, according to the authors, with appropriate modification, will be suitable for HIV, influenza, and any other infections.

10.03.2009
Biomedicine

Satellite cells will repair damaged muscles

Researchers from the University of Colorado have found among the "satellite cells" surrounding myofibrils, a population capable of repairing any defect in muscle tissue.

10.03.2009
Biomedicine

Will hydrogen sulfide help with erectile dysfunction?

The recently discovered vasodilating effect of hydrogen sulfide gives hope for the development of new drugs for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. However, if "hydrogen sulfide viagra" appears in pharmacies, it will not be very soon.

10.03.2009
Biomedicine

Who will get the medicines from the shelf?

According to Evgeny Sverdlov, the project manager for the development of the first domestic gene therapy drug against cancer, the appearance of innovative drugs under the brand "Made in Russia" in the coming years is unlikely. Prototypes of drugs that have already been created in our laboratories, which theoretically could compete with Western developments, are being shelved due to the lack of funds for clinical trials, patenting, licensing, production and promotion of drugs to the market.

10.03.2009
Prolonging youth

How Aubrey de Grey Old Age Wins

During an exclusive interview with the famous British biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, it turned out that he does not plan to test an anti-aging remedy, which is being developed under his leadership by a huge consortium of scientists from around the world.

10.03.2009
Biomedicine

Personalized medicine: from bombing to sniper shooting

Personalized medicine is among the leading trends in the global pharmaceutical industry: some companies specialize in the creation of innovative drugs and develop precisely targeted drugs, others – the latest diagnostic systems.

10.03.2009
Healthy skepticism

Three clones from the clown

The infamous Italian Severino Antinori said that he cloned three people at once. They live in Eastern Europe, grow old suspiciously fast and surprisingly change their gender.

05.03.2009
Controversial

In search of the secrets of longevity

Cautious scientists note that none of the studies of the aging process has yet achieved a breakthrough in this area. They draw attention to the need to distinguish the pseudoscientific production of anti-aging products from the genuine science of aging and declare that it is not yet possible to stop, slow down or reverse the passage of time.

03.03.2009
Other life sciences

How to connect to the brain

How far can science go in developing brain-machine interfaces? Will we be able to inject any information directly into the brain, as if this organ were a giant flash disk?

02.03.2009
Grants and competitions

"Science is beautiful!" – 2009

The publication "Science and Technology of Russia – STRF.ru "together with the Park-Media company, with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science and the Federal Agency for Science and Innovation, they are holding a scientific photography contest "Science is Beautiful!".

02.03.2009
Biomedicine

Nanotechnology in medicine: successes and prospects

Recently, nanotechnology has been increasingly being introduced into many areas of human activity. This trend has not bypassed medicine. Today, macromolecules and artificially prepared particles are used for the diagnosis, treatment of various diseases and restoration of damaged tissues. The new direction was called nanomedicine. Russian scientists have achieved considerable success in this field.

02.03.2009
Other life sciences

Injustice, dirt and bitter food cause the same reaction

Maybe impurity and injustice are processed by the brain separately and just trigger the same reaction – the same one that automatically provokes a bitter taste. Or maybe the body has adapted the same evaluation system for processing moral stimuli as for hygienic stimuli.

02.03.2009
Prolonging youth

Immortality for nothing

"I believe that we will be able to defeat aging in the near future. There is a 50 percent chance that the person who will be the first to live to 150 years old is already living, and he is now 60 years old," di Gray said on Saturday at a meeting with journalists in Moscow.

02.03.2009
Other life sciences

The most famous medical experiments on yourself

History knows a lot of doctors who got sick while doing their duty. But there were also those who deliberately infected themselves or harmed themselves in order to test the hypothesis by experiment.

26.02.2009
Healthy skepticism

Phantoms of the wave genome

The bulletin "In Defense of Science" No. 4 again exposes the pseudo- and anti-scientific activities of a number of "scientists" that harm the development of science, the health of the population, weaning people from critical thinking and contributing to the spread of obscurantism. Two articles are devoted to the theory of the "wave genome".

26.02.2009
Cellular technologies

Stem cells: the present and the near future

Most likely, the breakthrough in advanced medicine associated with stem cells predicted in the next decade will be based not on embryonic, but on the so–called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs, from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) - ordinary differentiated mature cells reprogrammed into a state of pluripotence.

25.02.2009