Genetics
Chromatin and aging
Chromatin activity modes are periodically switched in cells. With age, the ability to quickly change the "on" and "off" modes is lost.
07.11.2017- English version
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Genetics
Prognosis of adenocarcinoma recurrence
Survival after surgical treatment of pancreatic cancer depends on the state of four genes.
07.11.2017
Biomedicine
Radiofrequency ablation against arthritis
A non-invasive procedure for osteoarthritis of the knee joint gives a better effect than steroid injections.
07.11.2017
Other life sciences
Fibrinogen inhibits remyelination
Researchers from the Gladstone Institute have discovered an interesting relationship between myelin repair and plasma proteins.
07.11.2017
Biomedicine
Hunting for antibiotic-resistant microbes
A computer algorithm allows you to find the genes of "superbugs" in the DNA of the intestinal microflora.
03.11.2017
Other life sciences
Life in Stone
The mechanism that helps carious bacteria not to kill themselves inside the tartar and does not allow to restore the destroyed enamel is revealed.
03.11.2017
Biomedicine
Children's tumor cells will be prevented from repairing DNA
The new method of fighting tumors is based on the violation of DNA repair mechanisms in cancer cells.
03.11.2017
Cellular technologies
Rejuvenation of stem cells
Transplantation of young vascular endothelial cells stimulates "old" stem cells of bone marrow and other organs.
03.11.2017
Biomedicine
Dementia prognosis
The presence of nonspecific biomarkers of inflammation in the blood makes it possible to predict the state of the brain in 20 years.
03.11.2017
Healthy skepticism
Our bodily juices
The USA is the enemy. Ukraine is an enemy and a friend of the enemy. They want to make a virus against us, but in order not to hurt their allies, everything is clear, right?
02.11.2017
Controversial
Aging is inevitable: the opinion of optimists
Aging is not inevitable, says Peter Fedichev, scientific director of Gero.
02.11.2017
Controversial
Aging is inevitable: the opinion of pessimists
It is possible that all attempts to find a way to stop aging and even reverse it are doomed to failure.
02.11.2017
Other life sciences
Breathe into the blood glucose meter
The level of glucose in the blood can be determined not only by analyzing the blood itself, but also by the condensates of exhaled air.
02.11.2017
Your health
What kind of disease is a stroke
Stroke is an acute violation of cerebral circulation. What is a stroke, what causes it and how to detect it?
02.11.2017
Other life sciences
Not the biggest glutton
The human brain is inferior in "voracity" to the brain of many monkeys, lemurs and even tupai – primitive relatives of primates.
02.11.2017
New in Gerontology
How the immune system ages
With age, some parts of the chromosomes of the immune system cells "age" and cease to fully perform their functions.
02.11.2017
Biomedicine
Treatment of tremor without surgery
There is a prospect of treating hand tremor in Parkinson's disease with focused ultrasound of high intensity.
02.11.2017
Prolonging youth
Immunity and prolongation of youth
A model of the relationship between the activity of the immune system and the process of biological aging of the body is being developed.
01.11.2017
Biomedicine
"Self-guided" medicine
We can say that this idea is "borrowed" from nature, which created "self–guided" drugs - protein antibodies.
01.11.2017
Genetics
Space epigenetics
Being in space leads to an additional activation of the methylation process responsible for the "on" and "off" of genes.
01.11.2017