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New in Gerontology

Another reason for senile dementia

A protein that helps the immune system distinguish "its own" from "strangers", suppresses the appearance of new cells in the brain with age, impairing cognitive abilities.

08.07.2015
Your health

Why are men dying out

The gap between the life expectancy of men and women has not always existed: it was formed only in the twentieth century.

07.07.2015
Innovative Russia

The health of red blood cells will be checked by a laser

A graduate of the Lyceum at Bauman Moscow State Technical University has created an innovative device for conducting a rapid blood test for the elasticity of red blood cells – the main indicator of their health.

07.07.2015
Biomedicine

HIV vaccine: another hope

The experimental vaccine protected half of the experimental monkeys from SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus) – the "monkey" version of HIV. The authors of the study hope that a similar two-stage vaccination will be able to protect a person.

07.07.2015
Genetic engineering

Mosquitoes-"pests" have confirmed their effectiveness

The population of carriers of pathogens of various fevers in the area where male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes with an embedded gene causing early death of offspring were released into the wild decreased by 95%.

07.07.2015
New in Gerontology

Latent viruses reduce life expectancy

The new theory of "micro-competition" describes the role of latent viral infections in shortening telomeres and, accordingly, in reducing life expectancy.

07.07.2015
Grants and competitions

Postgraduate studies in Norway

The University of Oslo accepts applications for participation in the grant competition for postgraduate studies on the topic "Molecular genetics of plants".

06.07.2015
Genetics

Mammoth and Elephant: Find a million differences

During genome-wide sequencing, a group of researchers managed to detect 1.4 million variants of various genes characteristic exclusively for the mammoth, which changed proteins produced by 1,600 other genes.

06.07.2015
Genetics

Environment and heredity – ending

We continue to talk about the extent to which a person's individual qualities – his character traits, inclinations, diseases - are biologically predetermined from birth.

06.07.2015
Genetics

Environment and heredity – the beginning

Congenital or acquired? To what extent is innate, and to what extent is acquired? Disputes of this kind are conducted about almost any property of the human body, and, especially zealously, about deviations from the norm.

06.07.2015
Other life sciences

Repair of "hidden" breaks in the DNA chain

The opportunity to defeat or even prevent a number of diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, was found by Russian scientists and their foreign colleagues who discovered a new mechanism for repairing DNA.

06.07.2015
Genetics

Blockade genes: details

Interview with one of the authors of the article in Science "Did good genes help people outlast brutal Leningrad siege?" ("Good genes helped people survive the brutal siege of Leningrad")?

06.07.2015
Various

Who pays, he orders

The average American doctor receives $1,700 from pharmaceutical companies as a "reward". In general, in 2014, doctors and research institutions in the United States received about $6.5 billion for services rendered to manufacturers of medicines and medical devices.

03.07.2015
Grants and competitions

Bio/mol/text-2015

The fifth contest "bio /mol /text" invites you to talk about the achievements of biomolecular science. This time we will pay special attention to immunology, aging mechanisms, as well as "visual" science.

03.07.2015
Biomedicine

Phagmids are better than bacteriophages

Bacteriophages kill microbes by cell lysis, which leads to the release of bacteriotoxins, and phagmids – synthetic plasmids encoding proteins toxic to bacteria, leave their cytoplasmic membrane intact.

03.07.2015
Various

All sisters…

To update the website about healthy lifestyle (it's good that it's not the same as in the newspaper of the same name) The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation allocated 4.3 million rubles for the creation of its new website – 15.6 million rubles. For the PR of his "positive image" – 54.97 million.

03.07.2015
Healthy skepticism

Harry Houdini Award

A prize of 1 million rubles to any person who has clearly demonstrated psychic, supernatural or paranormal abilities during a strictly controlled scientific experiment.

03.07.2015