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New in Gerontology

You can't jump higher than the ceiling

The maximum life expectancy has already been reached and is 115 years. The absolute limit is 125 years: the probability of finding a person who has lived to 125 is less than 1 in 10,000.

06.10.2016
Nanotechnology

Cantilever for infectious diseases

Researchers from the University of Alberta have invented a device that can quickly identify harmful bacteria and determine how resistant they are to antibiotics.

05.10.2016
Genetics

Are you sweeter or fatter?

Some people do not like sweets and prefer fatty foods due to a mutation in the MC4R gene. Mutations in this gene are often found in people suffering from obesity.

05.10.2016
Biomedicine

What to do with the Zika virus?

The phenomenon of the Zika virus can be used in epidemiology textbooks as a vivid example of an underestimated threat. There is only one question on the agenda – what to do?

05.10.2016
New in Gerontology

Take care of the children

The stress suffered in childhood leads to accelerated telomere reduction. As a result, the cells age faster, and the person dies earlier than it could happen in other conditions.

04.10.2016
Other life sciences

Microflora and breast cancer

Microbes living in the breast, even in small quantities, in some cases can increase or, conversely, reduce the risk of breast cancer.

04.10.2016
Other life sciences

How the tumor hides from the immune system

Experts from the University of British Columbia have discovered a new mechanism that prevents the recognition of carcinoma cells by the immune system.

04.10.2016
Other life sciences

Neurotransmitters, part 2

In the second part of the story, we will talk about mediators who perform important invisible work: stimulate and inhibit other neurotransmitters, help us learn and remember.

04.10.2016
Other life sciences

"Nobel Prize" in medicine – 2016: details

Autophagy, for the study of which the prize was awarded this year, is a set of processes that allow a cell to get rid of accumulations of intracellular "garbage" with the help of lysosomes.

04.10.2016
Biomedicine

Two polyvalent influenza vaccines

The first one was created for the USA and is effective against 95% of influenza virus strains common in this country. The second protects against 88% of the world's existing strains.

03.10.2016
Your health

Scarier than heroin

If the requirements of the current drug classification were met, alcohol would be classified as a Class A drug, much more dangerous than heroin and crack.

03.10.2016
Your health

Recovery after stroke

On September 23-24, the All-Russian conference with international participation "Innovations in Angioneurorehabilitology" was held at the First St. Petersburg State Medical University named after Academician I.P. Pavlov.

03.10.2016
Genetics

Genes for immunity are not the main thing

Generalization of all data on factors affecting immunity showed that genetics determines only 20-40% of individual differences in the immune system.

30.09.2016
Other life sciences

Superelastic bones

A flexible polymer from which bone blanks can be printed does not cause an immune response, fills with cells on its own and ossifies naturally.

30.09.2016
Controversial

Let's remember the whole Wikipedia

The American startup Kernel has announced the beginning of the development of an implant to improve the memory and learning ability of people with disorders of these functions – for example, in Alzheimer's disease.

30.09.2016