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Your health

Everything is good in moderation, even milk

Drinking large amounts of milk not only does not reduce the risk of fractures, but may be associated with an increased risk of premature death for both men and women.

31.10.2014
Cellular technologies

IPSK – in a couple of days, not in 2-4 weeks

The addition of two small molecules to the four classic "Yamanaka factors" makes it possible to obtain mouse induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in the fastest way known today.

30.10.2014
Controversial

Dementia virus?

Unlike many other viruses that have passed to humans from animals, the ATCV-1 virus came to us from algae. But so far, he has not been noticed in anything serious – except for a slight weakening of some brain functions.

30.10.2014
Cellular technologies

Another "organ in a test tube"

Scientists from the Medical Center of the Children's Hospital in Cincinnati for the first time managed to obtain miniature organoids from human pluripotent stem cells that perform all the functions of a real stomach.

30.10.2014
Innovative Russia

Treatment of allergic diseases: eliminate the cause

A new anti-allergenic drug is undergoing the final stage of clinical trials. It does not just allow you to remove the symptoms of diseases, but affects their causes, which lie in the work of the immune system.

30.10.2014
Your health

Microbiota Health Test

It is planned that patients of the Atlas Medical Center will be able to pass these tests in a pilot mode, and then they will become available to residents of all Russia.

29.10.2014
Other life sciences

The heart in a supercomputer

The mathematical model created by Japanese scientists takes into account the behavior of each molecule of the heart tissues, which at a higher level of processing allows you to see the entire dynamics of the heartbeat.

29.10.2014
Innovative Russia

GenerationS: innovations in biomedicine

A device that will allow you to remove malignant tumors without surgery and general chemotherapy, and a technology that allows you to simplify and speed up the procedure of genetic analysis.

29.10.2014
Your health

Screening for prostate cancer is useless

The Committee for the Prevention of Diseases under the Government of Canada has issued recommendations indicating that there is no need for regular screening for prostate cancer.

29.10.2014
Prolonging youth

SkQ1 protects the heart from senile diseases

Prolonged intake of antioxidants that selectively affect the mitochondria reduces the risk of cardiovascular diseases associated with age-related changes in the myocardium.

28.10.2014
Biomedicine

Colonoscopy with your own hands

The Cologuard kit for home use detects not only blood contained in feces, but also DNA associated with cancer cells, as well as precancerous neoplasms, without such an unpleasant procedure as a colonoscopy.

28.10.2014
Other life sciences

Transplantation of "dead" hearts

The transplantation of hearts that stopped beating to three patients was an epochal event: the new technique will significantly increase the number of organs suitable for transplantation, which will save at least 30% more lives.

28.10.2014
Grants and competitions

X Eurotransbio Competition

The Foundation for Assistance to the Development of Small Forms of Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere announces the launch of a transnational competition within the framework of the ERANET project in order to finance projects of small enterprises in the field of biotechnology in 2015.

28.10.2014
Other life sciences

A contagious tumor

A malignant tumor sends special membrane bubbles with molecular instructions to the healthy cells surrounding it, which turn a normal cell into a cancerous one.

27.10.2014
Prolonging youth

Cocoa flavonols restore age-related memory impairment

The flavonol-enriched diet significantly improved the results of memory tests. If at the beginning of the study the participant's memory corresponded to the age of 60, after three months it improved to the indicators of a 30-40-year-old person.

27.10.2014
Biomedicine

The past, present and future of antibiotics

The development of new classes of antibiotic drugs became more and more expensive and more difficult, and eventually fundamentally new drugs stopped appearing. Now the microbes are winning, but the situation is not hopeless.

27.10.2014