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The author of the STAP cells made concessions

After several months of steadfast resistance to accusations of falsification of data and unfair conduct of the experiment, the lead author of two articles in Nature about a new method for obtaining stem cells agreed to withdraw one of them.

05.06.2014
Biomedicine

A new target for the treatment of type 2 diabetes

The signal that promotes insulin secretion and reduces hyperglycemia in animals with a type 2 diabetes model is enhanced by inhibition of a new enzyme discovered by Canadian scientists.

05.06.2014
Various

About the demographic pit and supermortality in Russia

Excerpts from the report "In 10 years it will be too late" prepared by the Institute of Scientific and Public Expertise. In the worst case scenario, the population of Russia may decrease to 100 million people already in the early 2040s.

05.06.2014
Nanotechnology

Micro – robots - spermatozoa

Researchers have developed micro robots in the form of sperm cells, the movement of which can be controlled using a weak alternating magnetic field.

05.06.2014
Healthy skepticism

There is no food without chemicals

"Chemical food" is a horror story of our time. People do not want to eat harmful chemicals, but want to eat healthy natural products. But what they mean by this is mostly myths.

04.06.2014
Biomedicine

Treatment of melanoma: two promising drugs

The results of two international studies on the fight against skin cancer give new hope to thousands of cancer patients. Both studies were aimed at helping the immune system recognize late-stage melanoma and attack it.

04.06.2014
Other life sciences

From the life of hair follicles: eggs teach a chicken

The signal to activate the resting stem cells of hair follicles is given by descendant cells – an intermediate link between stem cells and their final product, fully differentiated cells.

04.06.2014
Other life sciences

A model of synapse operation with the accuracy of a molecule

Scientists have created a detailed three-dimensional model of a single synapse, having a molecular level of detail and numbering 300 thousand protein molecules involved in the functioning of the synapse itself.

04.06.2014
Cellular technologies

Three-dimensional printing of blanks for blood vessels

Using hydrogel designs developed on the basis of the latest advances in three-dimensional bioprinting and biomaterials, scientists at Brigham Women's Hospital have created extensive networks of artificial blood vessels.

04.06.2014
Prolonging youth

Metformin anti-aging: new data

Metformin, the most widely used antidiabetic drug worldwide, slows down the aging process and increases the lifespan of nematodes.

04.06.2014
Your health

Immunity should be in moderation

A lack of an immune response is very bad, and an example of this is immunodeficiency, but excess is not a protection factor, but a pathogenesis factor.

03.06.2014
Cellular technologies

Tissues from cells

5 facts about regenerative medicine, artificial tissues and prospects for growing a heart.

03.06.2014
Other life sciences

NCoR1 – coordinator of cholesterol metabolism

Corepressor 1 of liver cell nuclei (NCoR1) is able to actively regulate the concentration of cholesterol in the blood; the development of drugs that affect NCoR1 is a new promising direction in the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis.

03.06.2014
Biomedicine

Cancer Stem Cell drug gives hope

Encouraging results of a clinical trial of an experimental drug OMP-54F28 (FZD8-Fc) selectively acting on cancer stem cells have been published.

03.06.2014
Genetics

The thousand-dollar genome: the goal is almost achieved

With the help of a unique program for financing promising developments, the US government has almost managed to achieve the long-awaited goal: to reduce the cost of genome sequencing to thousands of dollars.

03.06.2014
Biomedicine

Quadropeutics: a quadruple blow to the tumor

Researchers from Rice University conducted the first preclinical study of an innovative approach to cancer treatment, consisting in a combination of four existing therapies and called "quadropeutics".

02.06.2014
Biomedicine

A new method of repairing damaged bones

The complex of heparin microparticles and growth factor – bone morphogenetic protein – increases the effectiveness of the restoration of traumatic bone tissue damage.

02.06.2014