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Other life sciences

Human Brain Cells Make Mice Smarter

Transplantation of human astrocytes into the brain tissue of mice improves the memory and learning ability of animals. The researchers hope that the data they have obtained will help in the treatment of human brain diseases.

12.03.2013
Prolonging youth

Death in nature has no purpose – only consequences

Today, an active search is underway for a hypothetical "genetic program of death" in humans and ways to cancel it, but at this stage it is difficult to speculate what achievements we will achieve in this area.

11.03.2013
Grants and competitions

Try to interest the Bortnik Foundation

The Fund for Assistance to the Development of Small Forms of Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere collects proposals in order to identify the most promising topics of R&D in the field of biomedicine.

11.03.2013
Your health

If you want to live, stop drinking!

In 2010, alcohol was the culprit of 5.5% of all diseases and injuries on the planet. Thus, alcohol ranks third after high blood pressure and smoking.

07.03.2013
Other life sciences

Eaters of unborn neurons

Microglia cells "eat" excess stem cells, which can create a dangerous surplus of neurons in the developing brain of the embryo.

07.03.2013
Prolonging youth

How to rejuvenate an old brain

Blocking the genetic switch prevents the maturation of the brain and even allows the adult brain to return to the plastic state characteristic of a young age.

07.03.2013
Cellular technologies

Treatment of Duchenne myodystrophy: the next stage

Researchers at the University of Minnesota, combining three revolutionary technologies, improved a previously developed technique and demonstrated its effectiveness in the treatment of a mouse model of Duchenne myodystrophy.

07.03.2013
Other life sciences

Stem cells are the cause of ovarian cancer

Scientists from MIPT have solved the mechanism of ovarian cancer: it originates in the stem cells of the epithelium. So far, this result has been obtained in mouse models, but scientists hope to find a similar mechanism in humans and use it for treatment.

07.03.2013
Other life sciences

With obesity, fat cells behave like infected

Excessive intake of nutrients into adipocytes causes them to synthesize proteins that send a false alarm signal to the immune system, which leads to the development of inflammation of adipose tissue.

07.03.2013
New in Gerontology

How aging, autism and oxidative stress are related

The brain tissue of elderly people, as well as children with autism, is characterized by low levels of the mRNA enzyme methionine synthase, one of the main regulators of metabolism, the activity of which is blocked by oxidative stress.

07.03.2013
New in Gerontology

Questionnaire-questionnaire, how old should I live?

A simple questionnaire will help doctors assess the medical risks affecting the life expectancy of their elderly patients and improve the quality of medical care for this age group.

06.03.2013
Theories of aging

Aging and carcinogenesis

Carcinogenesis is not called the disease of old age for nothing. It is painful to live up to 150 years, being a collection of all genetic diseases known to science – hardly anyone would want to live so long, but just as bad.

06.03.2013
Cellular technologies

"Milk" pluripotent cells

Unique stem cells have been found in the breast tissue, which are not inferior to embryonic ones in their ability to give rise to different types of body tissues.

06.03.2013
Biomedicine

Triple blow to cancer

Many anticancer drugs hit one target, but the tumor cunningly bypasses the blocked channel. American scientists of Russian origin are creating a unique anti-cancer drug that hits three goals at once.

05.03.2013