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Your health

There is no animal scarier than a cat

Every fourth Muscovite is a carrier of a parasite that causes toxoplasmosis, and therefore may be at risk of developing schizophrenia.

16.07.2019
Various

The largest in Europe

Siemens Healthineers has completed a large-scale project to create the largest laboratory complex in Europe.

16.07.2019
Nanotechnology

Nanomuscles for prosthetics and robots

A new system for creating twisting fibers has been developed, which will be useful in the production of biomedical devices and robotics.

15.07.2019
Genetic engineering

CRISPR/Cas taught reversible edits

A group of scientists from the USA has expanded the range of CRISPR/Cas capabilities by teaching it to correct RNA sequences.

15.07.2019
Your health

How to reduce the risk of dementia

The more activities that stimulate mental activity are present in people's lives, the better their brain works in old age.

15.07.2019
Biomedicine

Kill cancer seeds

Discovered by American scientists, the molecule "starves" cancer stem cells, cutting off their access to nutrients.

15.07.2019
Other life sciences

Why are athletes so smart?

During training, the formation of dendritic spines and postsynaptic excitability increased in mice, the axon sheath thickened.

15.07.2019
Nanotechnology

Physicists go out to fight cancer

This was told by Viktor Tymoshenko, Professor of the Engineering Physics Institute of Biomedicine at MEPhI.

15.07.2019
Other life sciences

On the way to spinal cord regeneration

Peripheral nerves can recover after injury. The same mechanism can be activated in the cells of the central nervous system.

15.07.2019
Biomedicine

Supercharging for T-cells

MIT researchers have developed a vaccine that significantly increases the population of CAR-T cells and enhances their ability to penetrate solid tumors.

12.07.2019
Biomedicine

New antibiotics are being tested

They are effective against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria and, apparently, do not cause resistance with prolonged use.

12.07.2019
Nanotechnology

Graphene from a test tube

Scientists from the UK and the Netherlands have come up with a new way to get nanomaterials from graphene: mix oxidized graphene and bacteria.

12.07.2019
Various

Just business

More than half of the "innovative" medicines appearing in pharmacies in European countries turned out to be no better than old drugs.

12.07.2019
Other life sciences

Cancer risk and microflora

In women with mutations in the BRCA1 gene and with ovarian cancer, an equally low number of vaginal lactobacilli was found.

12.07.2019
Biomedicine

Better than stitches

Local application of collagen powder effectively promotes skin healing by primary tension.

11.07.2019
Prolonging youth

Magic genes

A variant of the LAV gene found in people with a lifespan of more than a hundred years rejuvenated the cardiovascular system of mice.

11.07.2019
Biomedicine

How to cast a "magic bullet"?

Chemist Maxim Abakumov – about the causes of side effects of drugs, monoclonal antibodies and nanocontainers for drug delivery.

11.07.2019
Note to the businessman

Run to stay put

The words of the Black Queen also apply to the situation with the race of bacteria and the pharmaceutical industry.

11.07.2019
Genetics

The crooked mirror of life

An excerpt about hereditary breast cancer from a book by molecular biologist Maria Kondratova about cancer myths.

11.07.2019