Life Sciences

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Prolonging youth

Cocoa flavonols restore age-related memory impairment

The flavonol-enriched diet significantly improved the results of memory tests. If at the beginning of the study the participant's memory corresponded to the age of 60, after three months it improved to the indicators of a 30-40-year-old person.

27.10.2014
Biomedicine

The past, present and future of antibiotics

The development of new classes of antibiotic drugs became more and more expensive and more difficult, and eventually fundamentally new drugs stopped appearing. Now the microbes are winning, but the situation is not hopeless.

27.10.2014
Genetic engineering

Stem Cell Cytotoxins against Brain Cancer

Stem cells encapsulated in a biodegradable gel synthesizing cytotoxins help to kill brain cancer cells in the cavity left after its resection.

27.10.2014
Biomedicine

Russian virologist on an effective way to defeat Ebola

Virologist Alexander Chepurnov, who worked with the Ebola virus for many years, heading the laboratory of particularly dangerous infections at the Vector Center for Virology and Biotechnology, talks about what needs to be done to cope with the deadly disease.

24.10.2014
Theories of aging

Another "closure" in gerontology

The statement of Chinese scientists has been refuted, according to which the main cause of cell aging is the release of free radicals inside the mitochondria.

24.10.2014
Cellular technologies

Human neurons from fibroblasts: direct reprogramming

This was achieved directly, without the stem cell stage. The authors hope that their research will help in the creation of methods for the treatment of Huntington's disease – a severe and incurable neurological disease.

23.10.2014
Other life sciences

Section "Medicine" at the 3D Print Expo conference

At the 3D Print Expo conference (October 23-25, Sokolniki Exhibition and Exhibition Center), a thematic section dedicated to the use of three-dimensional printing technologies in medicine will be allocated.

23.10.2014
Genetics

From drunkenness to alcoholism – one micro-RNA

The reason for the transition from moderate alcohol consumption to alcoholism lies in a decrease in the level of neurotrophic factor of the brain in the prefrontal cortex. In experiments on mice, scientists have shown that this process is controlled by micro-RNA.

22.10.2014
Biomedicine

Money against Cancer

Vladimir Bogin, an expert in the field of clinical research, medical director of the movement "Together against Cancer" – about which cancer drugs are the future, whether it is worth investing money in Russian science and why a lot of tests is bad.

22.10.2014
Cellular technologies

Olfactory nerve cells restored the human spinal cord

Two years after the operation, a patient paralyzed as a result of spinal cord injury can leave the rehabilitation center with the help of a special frame. In addition, he partially regained bladder and bowel control and sexual function.

22.10.2014
Cellular technologies

Intestines from stem cells

The functioning areas of the intestinal mucosa grown from IPSC contain various differentiated cells and are constantly updated due to the division of stem cells.

21.10.2014