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Your health

Breast cancer: risk factors

The probability of a breast tumor may be higher or lower depending on a person's age, family history, and the location of mutations in oncogenes.

22.06.2017
Other life sciences

"Exoathlet": tests continue

2 upgraded exoskeletons were delivered to MONICA for training. The first training takes place in the uneven bars, and then patients gradually move on to walking forward.

22.06.2017
Your health

Only the first spin!

The daily presence of extra virgin olive oil in the diet protected the brains of experimental mice from the development of Alzheimer's disease.

22.06.2017
Genetic engineering

Selection of carriers of therapeutic genes

The results of the new study will help in the future to consciously choose viral vectors for personalized therapy of neurodegenerative diseases.

21.06.2017
Prolonging youth

Liz Parrish's Gene Therapy

The gene therapy of aging markers has therapeutic potential. And for 15-20 million dollars, it can be brought to the start of clinical trials or refuted.

21.06.2017
Genetics

Two steps away from the super virus

Avian influenza H7N9 will turn into a super-contagious virus capable of killing people and causing large-scale epidemics, after acquiring only two mutations.

21.06.2017
Other life sciences

Biosensors (part 4)

Modern biosensors use a variety of technologies, from electrochemical, electromechanical and fluorescent-optical to genetically modified cells.

20.06.2017
Biomedicine

Superantibiotics are getting closer

Israeli scientists, in the process of studying the antibacterial properties of natural peptides, have created an antibiotic that acts even on multidrug-resistant bacteria.

20.06.2017
Healthy skepticism

This is darkness

The other day, information surfaced that just needs to be told, but it is extremely difficult to refrain from unprintable expressions. Do not treat encephalitis with homeopathy!

20.06.2017
Other life sciences

A snapshot of the virus down to the atom

Each pixel in the resulting image occupies only 0.23 nm, which allows you to see individual atoms and groups of molecules on the surface of the virus shell and inside it.

20.06.2017
Grants and competitions

VIC.Nano 2017

The Foundation for Infrastructure and Educational Programs announced the launch of the 3rd All-Russian Engineering Competition in the field of nanotechnology for students and postgraduates "VIC.Nano 2017".

20.06.2017
Other life sciences

Bowel Cancer Survival Calculator

Researchers from Nottingham have developed a universal online service for calculating survival rates for different types of colorectal cancer.

20.06.2017
Other life sciences

Nebulous calculations for biomedicine

Andrey Voronkov dreams of transferring the project "Drug discovery at home" on the calculation of drugs, proteins, the creation of new generation drugs to a new computing platform.

20.06.2017
Biomedicine

Galkanezumab, eptinezumab and fremanezumab

Three migraine medications based on a new principle of action will soon appear on the market: these are antibodies to a calcitonin-bound peptide.

20.06.2017
Other life sciences

People differ more than we thought

Small differences in the structure of DNA in different people unexpectedly strongly affect the structure of proteins and their work, the consequences of which were previously underestimated.

20.06.2017
Theories of aging

Why would our genes kill us?

It's time to throw off the blinders and admit that the king is naked, and aging is a program honed by group selection. And when we know the enemy by sight, we will be able to defeat him.

19.06.2017
Biomedicine

SkQ1 vs "diabetic foot"

The effectiveness of the mitochondrial-directed antioxidant SkQ1 in the treatment of diabetic wounds was tested on a mouse model of type 2 diabetes.

19.06.2017
Controversial

Canavero continues training

Four weeks after the treatment of the incision site with polyethylene glycol, the rats were already taking steps, while the control rats were practically unable to move.

19.06.2017