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Genetics

Psychogenetics

Psychogeneticist Robert Plomin – about the role of genes and upbringing in the formation of personality, the ability to foreign languages and gemini studies.

10.07.2017
Other life sciences

Apple trees won't bloom on Mars

Scientists believe that at the moment the surface of Mars has a detrimental effect on microorganisms. Even liquid water is harmful to cells if it contains perchlorates.

10.07.2017
Other life sciences

A new type of dendritic cells

Their main task is to get infected with the virus, die and spread information about it among other components of immunity.

10.07.2017
Innovative Russia

Exoatlet Asia

Korea is the first foreign market where ExoaThlet launches sales. The next stage will be certification in China, Japan, Singapore.

07.07.2017
Biomedicine

Hypotensive oligonucleotides

Novosibirsk scientists have created a fundamentally new method of combating hypertension, experimenting with short DNA chains of 10-20 "letters"-nucleotides.

07.07.2017
Other life sciences

The problem of resistance is getting worse

Currently, only three new drugs for the treatment of gonorrhea are being developed, and there are no guarantees that they will successfully pass clinical trials.

07.07.2017
Genetics

Stop colorectal cancer

The development of colon and rectal cancer can be suppressed by blocking the work of the STRA6 protein associated with the transfer of vitamin A and the growth and reproduction of stem cells.

07.07.2017
Your health

What kind of disease is cancer? Part 2

Experts of the Solo project of the Atlas biomedical holding talk about real and mythical factors that increase the risk of cancer.

07.07.2017
Theories of aging

Aging – the program

The fact that we will break this program, the author has no doubts. A matter of time. And I would really like it to happen not in 50 years, but in 20.

07.07.2017
Genetics

White, brown, cave…

Millions of years ago there were no white, brown, or Himalayan bears, but thanks to evolution, their ancestors adapted to environmental conditions, dividing into the species we know.

06.07.2017
Biomedicine

Melanoma vaccines

Two research groups from different countries conducted clinical studies of individual melanoma vaccines, which confirmed their effectiveness and safety.

06.07.2017
Your health

One glass at a time, a small one at a time…

The authors of the new work have shown that chronic daily alcohol consumption in terms of the development of cravings for alcohol is about as dangerous as binge drinking.

06.07.2017
Other life sciences

I eat what I want and don't get fat

When a mouse cannot smell its food, it may "think" that it has eaten more than it actually has, and this encourages it to expend more energy.

06.07.2017
Other life sciences

Metastases, I can see right through you!

A Japanese team of scientists has developed a new method of tissue processing that allows us to examine cancerous tumors in mice with an accuracy of individual cells.

06.07.2017
Healthy skepticism

Rally, don't rally…

Reasonable people sit at their workplace, working for the good of the Motherland, and go to rallies and demonstrations only at the call of the party and the government.

06.07.2017
Other life sciences

Can atherosclerosis be reversed?

In the course of a new study, scientists have found that "therapeutic" macrophages of type M2 are necessary to reduce atherosclerotic inflammation and "dissolve" plaques.

06.07.2017
Genetic engineering

Gene delivery to neurons

New viral vectors solve this problem: one of them penetrates the blood-brain barrier, and the second is selectively absorbed by peripheral neurons.

05.07.2017
Cellular technologies

Stem cells identical to natural ones

Induced pluripotent stem cells differ little from natural ones in the microRNA profile, which means that the technology for their production is quite reliable.

05.07.2017