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Your health

Scientists have refuted a big and fat misconception

The idea that being overweight can be good for health is a misconception, Canadian scientists have found. Obesity is dangerous even in cases where cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar are within the normal range.

05.12.2013
Healthy skepticism

Sheathe your underpants with lead!

The Fukushima accident will undoubtedly contribute to the sales of anti-radioactive wetsuits that protect the most important thing with a lead insert that holds gamma rays, and less important parts of the body, except the face, from beta rays.

04.12.2013
Biomedicine

Caries prevention: eat candy!

The amount of Streptococcus mutans, one of the main "corroders" of tooth enamel, fell in the oral cavity of volunteers who ate several sweets daily with Lactobacillus ragasei bacteria killed by heating.

04.12.2013
Biotechnologies - into life

Clinical studies of breast cancer cell therapy

On Monday, clinical trials of a breast cancer treatment method developed in Tomsk began at the Research Institute of Clinical Immunology in Novosibirsk.

04.12.2013
Biomedicine

The end of the AIDS pandemic?

The newly developed synthetic molecules inhibit the release of HIV genetic material from the nucleus of an infected cell into the cytoplasm, thus, virus replication is blocked and avoids infection of other cells.

04.12.2013
New in Gerontology

Cell aging is the biggest risk factor for cancer

In old age, the cause of the development of malignant tumors may be not so much mutations as the loss of aging cells of the mechanism that causes them to stop dividing.

04.12.2013
Other life sciences

Cardiomyocytes recover, only slowly and low

A few years ago, the regenerative capacity of the mammalian heart was considered almost zero. However, scientists now know that heart muscle cells are constantly regenerating, albeit at a very low rate: only one to four percent of cells are replaced in the heart muscle every year.

03.12.2013
Other life sciences

Separate collection of mitochondrial debris

For more economical and efficient use of mitochondria, cells collect damaged mitochondrial proteins in a single mitochondria, which is then sent for disposal.

03.12.2013
Other life sciences

Drink, yes FOXO3 understand!

The transcription factor FOXO3 helps protect the liver from the damaging effects of alcohol.

03.12.2013
Grants and competitions

Innovation Corridor to America

Russian startup companies operating on the basis of universities and entrepreneurs - heads of innovative projects can apply for participation in the American-Russian Innovation Corridor in the winter of 2014.

03.12.2013
Cellular technologies

Stem cell lungs: the first step has been taken

Scientists from Columbia University Medical Center have managed to obtain functioning lung and respiratory tract cells from human stem cells for the first time.

03.12.2013
Other life sciences

Another danger of cholesterol

The causative agent of breast cancer is a cholesterol metabolite, which increases the aggressiveness and activity of the tumor, acting on it in the same way as the hormone estrogen.

02.12.2013
Genetics

"Ancestral memory" found in mice

Epigenetic inheritance through generations is quite common in plants, but much less common in animals. Researchers from Emory University have shown the epigenetic mechanism of memory transmission through a generation of mice – from grandfathers to grandchildren.

02.12.2013
Controversial

Be careful with antioxidants

The balance between oxidants and antioxidants is crucial for our physiology, but this balance is individual for each person. Taking supplements with antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E, we can upset this balance.

02.12.2013
Genetics

FDA vs. 23andMe: Details

The dispute between 23andMe and the FDA, in fact, boils down to the question of whether it is worth giving people free access to their genetic data or whether they are so dangerous that it is better to leave this right only to specialists.

02.12.2013