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Other life sciences

Placebo: the most important pill

This medicine can help with colds, headaches, ulcers, alcoholism, depression and many other diseases. Its cost price is literally pennies. However, officially this drug cannot be bought in any pharmacy in the world ... We are talking about a placebo — a dummy that the human psyche perceives as a medicine.

30.10.2008
Controversial

Is "healthy eating" harmful to health?

"Most people consume foods that are unusual for human beings," says Barry Groves, a doctoral candidate in dietetics, who recently wrote the book "How Healthy Eating Makes Us Sick."

29.10.2008
Note to the businessman

The Seven Deadly Sins of Company Websites

Seth Rosenblat, Vice President of Marketing at Interwoven, warns website owners against gluttony, envy, fornication, pride, greed, laziness and anger. They lead to the fact that visitors will not visit your resource and buy your products, and they will not want to deal with your company at all.

29.10.2008
Your health

The myth of "Health"

The national project "Health" is a myth. According to the experts of the Society of Evidence-based Medicine Specialists, there is no special program to improve the level of healthcare in Russia.

29.10.2008
Controversial

Religion: a useful adaptation, a by-product of evolution or a "brain virus"?

"Evolutionary ethics" is already a fully formed and recognized scientific direction, and today, before our eyes, "evolutionary religious studies" is also rapidly gaining strength. Interest in this topic is growing not only in the scientific community, but also among the general public.

28.10.2008
Biomedicine

Postgenomic biotechnologies

The pharmaceutical industry development program assumes that about 200 domestic medicines should be created by 2020. Several dozen of them should be innovative means of a new generation. The creation of such drugs is the main task of the Department of Postgenomic Biotechnologies of the Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

28.10.2008
New in Gerontology

Anti-Aging Science

Russia has developed a global scientific program to combat aging, which can become the basis of a national strategy for life extension.

28.10.2008
Healthy skepticism

Shizelen

7% of Americans belong to the so-called dark green – people who fanatically care about the environment. It is not yet clear whether this behavior is determined by environmental motives or whether we are talking about a disorder bordering on neurosis.

27.10.2008
Genetics

DNA genealogy: Slavs and "Indo-Europeans" (Part 2)

We have sorted out the ancestral homeland of the "Indo-Europeans", who turned out to be Arias, they are also Proto-Slavs. And where is the ancestral home of the "Proto-Indo-Europeans"? What is the picture of the flows, migrations of "Proto-Indo-Europeans" that led to the appearance of the Aryans, the Proto-Slavs in their historical homeland? This is the second part of our investigation.

27.10.2008
Biomedicine

On the way to diabetes treatment

New candidates for clinical research as a means of treating diabetes: epigallocatechin-3-gallate, an antioxidant that is part of green tea, and alpha-1 antitrypsin, a protein that is produced by liver tissue.

27.10.2008
Other life sciences

Eraser for memories

If the "erasure" of memories ever becomes possible, it will require a careful prediction of the consequences and the development of a solid ethical framework that defines the scope of the technique, since there are plenty of obvious opportunities for abuse of it.

27.10.2008
Cellular technologies

Hybrid or chimera?

Has the British Parliament allowed the creation of beastmen?

24.10.2008
Biomedicine

Hydrogen sulfide does not press

Smelly hydrogen sulfide has an unexpected and very useful function – this gas helps the body to expand blood vessels. A previously unknown regulatory mechanism promises the emergence of a whole class of new drugs to combat high blood pressure.

24.10.2008
Your health

What affects the quality of sperm

There are two pieces of news for men: bad and good. The bad news is that almost everything affects the quality of sperm, the good news is that everything is fixable.

24.10.2008
Your health

How to survive in a crisis

What is happening in the country now, of course, cannot but worry us. We think, analyze, worry about the future of our contributions, about the present of our work and are nervous, nervous, nervous... There can be many crises, but life is one. Is it worth spending it on a crisis?

24.10.2008
Other life sciences

Prick and forget

If the script of the movie "Men in Black" were being written today, the characters of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones would be armed not with a flash, but with a genetic vector and a small pill. American and Chinese neurophysiologists have learned to delete unnecessary memories in this way – but so far only in mice.

23.10.2008