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Biomedicine

Antitumor grenades with thermosensitive fuses

Doctors from Manchester have created an unusual "packaging" for anti-cancer drugs, which prevents them from killing healthy cells and at the same time works like a kind of "grenade" that reacts to heat.

02.11.2015

Other life sciences

Brain-computer interface accelerated 5 times

The SSVEP system allows a person, looking at a virtual keyboard, to "write" at a speed of 50-60 characters per minute, which corresponds to an information exchange rate of 4.5-5.5 bits per second.

02.11.2015

New in Gerontology

-Omics and aging: from biomarkers to systems biology (4)

After decades of simplistic research, specialists began to apply systematic and integrated data analysis "-omik" to the aging process. However, given the complexity of the aging process, new methods are needed to further decipher the numerous interactions.

30.10.2015

New in Gerontology

-Omics and aging: from biomarkers to systems biology (3)

Most of the studies mentioned at the beginning of the article are devoted to the identification of two-dimensional associations of age (or age-related diseases) and any of the "-omic" data types. However, there are pronounced mutual dependencies both between and within the various "-omic" data.

30.10.2015

New in Gerontology

-Omics and aging: from biomarkers to systems biology (2)

This section of the article provides a brief description of the key results of the application of new technologies for the assessment of various "-omics" for the identification of molecular markers of aging; the focus is on the most recent data.

30.10.2015

Your health

Strokes came out on top among the causes of death in Russia

Three out of four cases of stroke can be prevented if you change your lifestyle and use preventive measures to influence risk factors

30.10.2015

Cellular technologies

ESC and iPSC are almost the same

If we compare embryonic stem cells and their artificial analogues obtained from the same source, it turns out that the differences between them are not so great.

30.10.2015

Genetic engineering

Models of kidney diseases "in vitro"

Bioengineers from several US universities have grown a miniature human kidney from pluripotent stem cells and introduced its genome changes characteristic of two common kidney diseases.

30.10.2015

Genetics

Neuroscientists of NSU and SB RAS found the "gene of a cruel, cold-blooded killer"

Such "cold-blooded" criminals do not have impulsive cruelty, but "cold", planned aggressiveness is well developed, the presence of which is closely related to individual inactive forms of the dopamine receptor D4.

30.10.2015

Note to the businessman

Commercial medicine is increasingly attracting investors

At the end of November 2015, a new private medical center "Clinical Hospital on Yauza" will open in Moscow. Its main investor was Dmitry Vasiliev, First Deputy General Director of a large IT company Krok.

29.10.2015

Genetics

Three stories from the world of medical genetics

A huge field of application of personal genomics is the study of the genetics of various medical and physiological features: from a tendency to baldness and obesity to a predisposition to serious diseases.

29.10.2015

Healthy skepticism

Rumors about the dangers of meat turned out to be greatly exaggerated

If we believe the findings listed in the report on the impact of consumption of red and processed meat on the likelihood of cancer, this probability does increase – but at the same time by insignificant amounts.

29.10.2015

Biomedicine

Complex therapy in oncology

Immunotherapy is becoming one of the promising areas of the fight against cancer. An even greater effect is achieved in synergy with other methods.

29.10.2015

Innovative Russia

Russia's bid for technoparks

If the spirit of free enterprise is not allowed to settle in Russian technoparks, these huge construction "ticks" paid from our taxes will fly out in orderly rows into the "pipe" of history.

28.10.2015

Healthy skepticism

Anti-aging: myths and reality

What does modern anti-aging medicine offer patients and is it worth trusting tempting promises?

28.10.2015

Various

The Cancer vaccine needs your Money

Scientists from Novosibirsk are using crowdfunding to raise money for the introduction of a cancer vaccine they invented.

28.10.2015

Your health

Six reasons to stop working in the office

Going to the office every day is very bad for your health, and you really need to stop doing it.

27.10.2015

Your health

About flu vaccines and medicines

Vasily Vlasov: "... all medicines are harmful and some are beneficial when used correctly. The same goes for vaccines."

27.10.2015

Biomedicine

From arthritis, cancer and alopecia

Scientists from Columbia University accidentally found out that blocking the activity of a certain enzyme with drugs for cancer and arthritis causes hair follicles to quickly come out of a state of rest and start hair growth.

27.10.2015

Genetics

Nephew of his own dad

American geneticists reported a case of so-called "genetic chimerism": the child inherited the genes not of the father, but of his twin brother, who died in the womb.

27.10.2015