Articles

Healthy skepticism

Scientists have not proven the negative impact of computer games on teenagers

A number of news outlets wrote that "scientists have proved it". In fact, not scientists, but one psychologist, are not convinced, but assumes, not a causal relationship, but a correlation, and not negatively, but in different ways.

08.04.2015

Various

Contamination of science and medicine by plagiarism and fraud

Arthur Kaplan of NYU Langone Medical Center notes that people responsible for the quality of scientific publications do not make enough efforts to solve the problem of the quality and reliability of scientific papers.

08.04.2015

Controversial

Transplant my head!

The first patient who volunteered to undergo a head transplant operation was Valery Spiridonov, a thirty-year-old programmer from Vladimir suffering from spinal muscular atrophy.

08.04.2015

Other life sciences

Go further away

A small exoskeleton is worn on the legs and does not require power sources. The device saves up to 7% of the energy that the body spends when walking. The device weighs 300-500 g, so the advantage in energy is not canceled by carrying heavy loads.

08.04.2015

Various

OPG "GA-40"

The participants of the criminal group misled patients about the properties of GA-40, which was not registered in Russia and had not passed preclinical and clinical studies, as a drug for the treatment of cancer, hepatitis and other serious diseases.

07.04.2015

Other life sciences

Morbidity statistics by search queries

The analysis of queries entered by users into search engines will allow predicting the spread of non-communicable diseases, such as cancer, stroke and cardiovascular diseases.

07.04.2015

Innovative Russia

GenerationS-2015

In 2015, GenerationS will become the world's first platform for creating corporate and industry accelerators focused on the needs of Russian and international corporations.

07.04.2015

Cellular technologies

Cancer treatment with stem cells in Russia will be waiting for a long time

On World Health Day, the Science department of the Newspaper.Ru" figured out when in Russia they will be able to treat oncological diseases with the help of stem cells.

07.04.2015

Various

Russian gerontologists have begun to compile a register of centenarians

"We started compiling the register of centenarians only recently," said Igor Arkhipov, president of the Russian Association of Gerontologists and Geriatricians. – Now there are about 10 thousand people in our register of those who are over 90 years old."

07.04.2015

Biomedicine

Poliovirus for the treatment of glioblastoma: details

Scientists from Duke University began looking for volunteers and announced a fundraiser for the first phase of clinical trials of a new method of glioblastoma therapy.

07.04.2015

Various

Don't keep Your Genomes secret

Most people, especially those with familial genetic disorders, most likely realize that they will gain more from potential discoveries than they will lose by revealing their biological identity.

07.04.2015

Other life sciences

Prosthesis with wireless control

American biotechnologists have created a unique prosthetic arm that connects to the brain through a simple "cap" for EEG and does not require implantation of electrodes into the cerebral cortex or other invasive medical procedures.

06.04.2015

Genetics

Genetics suggests, and epigenetics disposes

Epigenetics has become the link between the outside world and genes that scientists have been looking for for so long. She finally put all the dots over the "I" in more than a century of discussion about sociogenetism and biogenetism.

06.04.2015

Other life sciences

What do magnetic waves look like?

A solid-state compass chip that transmits signals to the cortex of a blind rat responsible for processing visual information allowed the animal to "see" geomagnetic fields.

06.04.2015

Genetics

The complete Encyclopedia of oncogenes

A detailed catalog of cancer genes will allow selecting the optimal therapy for each patient, selecting targets for the development of anti-cancer drugs, creating experimental models of animals and cell lines for cancer research, testing new drugs and treatment methods.

06.04.2015

Cellular technologies

Non-oncogenic embryonic stem cells

Embryonic stem cells treated with a drug for the treatment of oncological diseases, after differentiation into dopaminergic neurons and transplantation into the brain of mice, unlike "untreated", do not turn into cancerous.

06.04.2015

Biomedicine

Dendritic cells against melanoma

The development of a prototype cancer vaccine from mutated tumor proteins has become a small breakthrough in personalized medicine, on which most hopes are pinned in the fight against cancer.

06.04.2015

Biomedicine

Not from cancer, but from Alzheimer's

The substance AZD0530 as a cure for cancer has not shown encouraging results, and would have been forgotten if not for a new project of the National Institutes of Health, which launched a project giving a second chance to non-working drugs.

03.04.2015

Prolonging youth

Immortality and extended youth

It seems that prolonged youth is no longer a fantasy, and very soon we will be able to maintain beauty and health throughout our lives. But immortality still seems like an impossible mission.

03.04.2015

Genetics

A "family tree" has been compiled for prostate cancer

Peculiar genealogical trees compiled by scientists show that most of the oncogenic mutations are common to all secondary tumors in each patient. These shared genetic roots could potentially be the Achilles heel of metastases.

03.04.2015