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Genetics

About the benefits of genes

The founder of the medical and genetic center Genotek – about why people are afraid of genetic technologies, and how genetic discoveries can affect the life of society in the future.

25.04.2017
Your health

The secret of longevity

The secrets of longevity were shared by Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, MD, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, President of the Russian Association of Gerontologists and Geriatricians, Professor Vladimir Shabalin.

24.04.2017
Genetics

"Junk" DNA helps turn on genes

Regulatory RNAs are often encoded in "junk" DNA – they do not carry information about proteins, but serve as a powerful tool for regulating genetic activity.

24.04.2017
Your health

What kind of disease: diabetes mellitus

According to statistics from the World Health Organization, 1.5 million people die from diabetes a year – this is more than from the human immunodeficiency virus.

24.04.2017
Your health

Cataract: it's waiting for you personally

Cataract is a clouding and compaction of the lens. According to the classical definition, we are talking about opacities of any type. The diagnosis of "cataract" is a reason to replace the lens.

21.04.2017
Other life sciences

High-speed noninvasive neurointerface

Facebook employs more than 60 specialists from a wide variety of companies and organizations in this project, including Berkeley University, Johns Hopkins Hospital and others.

21.04.2017
Your health

Soda on the brain

Drinking large amounts of soda correlates with memory impairment, a decrease in brain volume, an increased risk of stroke and senile dementia.

21.04.2017
Genetics

Huntington's disease

Molecular neurogeneticist David Rubinstein – about this hereditary disease and similar neurodegenerative diseases caused by protein aggregation.

21.04.2017
Other life sciences

Naked diggers can breathe like plants

Small colonial rodents have many unusual abilities. Another of them turned out to be a unique way of breathing for animals.

21.04.2017
Cellular technologies

Three-dimensional "patch" for the heart

A patch of heart muscle cells formed with the help of three-dimensional bioprinting contributes to the restoration of damaged heart tissue after myocardial infarction.

19.04.2017
Your health

Metformin and neurodegenerative diseases

A new large-scale work has shown that long-term use of metformin not only does not reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, but even increases it.

19.04.2017
Other life sciences

Harmful (and unnecessary?) protein

Increased Id1 protein synthesis reduces the ability of beige adipose tissue to burn calories when cooled. It is possible that this protein is not needed for the normal functioning of the body.

19.04.2017
Other life sciences

Where is HIV hiding?

The immunodeficiency virus can hide not only in T cells, but also in macrophages, which will complicate the procedure of its expulsion from the body in the treatment of an old infection.

19.04.2017
Healthy skepticism

Alive and inanimate

Where do myths about water come from? There is a lot of speculation on this topic, and the authors of this article decided to take apart the most popular beliefs about the properties of water.

18.04.2017
Biomedicine

Exosomes protect the brain from epilepsy

Intranasal administration of exosomes of mesenchymal stem cells reduces the severity of brain damage associated with epileptic status.

18.04.2017