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Blood pressure and free radicals

Free radicals, which are one of the causes of aging and cancer development, play a positive role in the regulation of blood pressure.

30.01.2012
Genetics

Are you afraid of Alzheimer's disease?

The opinion that if a person in the family has a "gene predisposition to Alzheimer's disease", he will also necessarily get sick is nothing more than a myth. In fact, such a connection is detected only in 1% of cases.

30.01.2012
Biomedicine

Check for yourself if you have a papilloma virus

Self-testing for human papillomavirus, which is the cause of cervical cancer in more than 90% of cases, can become the main method of screening women regardless of the availability of medical monitoring programs.

27.01.2012
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy for the treatment of blindness

The results of testing on dogs indicate that a new method of gene therapy for retinal pigment degeneration in the near future may solve the problem of one of the main causes of blindness.

27.01.2012
Cellular technologies

Alzheimer's in vitro

Scientists have obtained neurons with Alzheimer's syndrome from skin cells of people suffering from this disease.

27.01.2012
Prolonging youth

Forever young and forever drunk

The main rules for prolonging youth with alcohol: take a little, but regularly, start from the first days of life, do not snack and ... be born a worm.

24.01.2012
Genetics

Genes and intelligence

Intellectual abilities are at least 75% inherited. Dieter Zimmer, a well-known scientific journalist and long-time editor of the culture department of the newspaper Die Zeit, comes to this conclusion in his new book.

24.01.2012
Biomedicine

Spinal cord injury: how to keep intact nerves

Perhaps in the near future in the arsenal of veterinarians, and subsequently doctors, there will be a means to minimize the consequences of spinal cord injury.

23.01.2012
Cellular technologies

Cord blood stem cells will cure sore knees

"Kartistem" – a drug from cord blood stem cells – promotes the regeneration of cartilage tissue and is used for various diseases of the knee joints, in particular, deforming osteoarthritis.

23.01.2012
Biomedicine

Sperm vaccine

There are cases when women develop allergic reactions to their partner's sperm. Perhaps this unpleasant phenomenon will help in the creation of a new means of contraception.

20.01.2012
Genetic engineering

Vodka is not made of sawdust

A bacterium capable of efficiently processing brown algae into biofuel – ethanol has been created. Some scientists have already called this work an engineering feat.

20.01.2012
Cellular technologies

Oligodendrocytes from umbilical cord blood

Bioengineers from the University of Central Florida have managed to turn stem cells from the umbilical cord into oligodendrocytes engaged in axon myelination, that is, isolating nerves in the brain and spinal cord.

20.01.2012
Genetics

In his right mind and sober memory

The rate of decline in the intellectual abilities of people in old age by 24% is due to many small differences in the genome.

19.01.2012