Better forty times at a time…
Small two- to three-minute physical activity sessions, totaling 30 minutes a day, can be as good for health as a long trip to the gym.
01.02.2013Small two- to three-minute physical activity sessions, totaling 30 minutes a day, can be as good for health as a long trip to the gym.
01.02.2013Experiments on C.elegans roundworms have revealed a previously unknown mechanism for increasing life expectancy by blocking certain mitochondrial enzymes.
01.02.2013Sergey Kiselyov, Professor, Doctor of Sciences, Head of the Laboratory of Genetic Foundations of Cellular Technologies at the Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Medical News about the process of developing a therapeutic vaccine against melanoma (skin cancer) and the results of its testing.
01.02.2013Overexpression of the SIRT3 gene rejuvenates hematopoietic stem cells of an aging organism by increasing the efficiency of the antioxidant defense system.
01.02.2013UCLA researchers have discovered a unique hairpin structure on a certain fragment of the toxic form of beta-amyloid, facilitating its adhesion. It may turn out to be the most relevant target for the creation of drugs against Alzheimer's disease.
01.02.2013Perhaps in the future, manipulations over the energy centers of the cell – mitochondria – will increase the sensitivity of cells to insulin, reduce body weight and even increase life expectancy.
01.02.2013Medical scientists pin their greatest hopes on the development of cellular technologies and personalized medicine.
01.02.2013The introduction of specialized cardiac stem cells promotes the restoration of the heart muscle after a heart attack by stimulating the division of preserved cardiomyocytes and attracting the patient's stem cells to the injury zone. At the same time, the transplanted cells die quickly.
31.01.2013Life expectancy after transplantation and indicators of respiratory function in patients who received the lungs of a smoker and those who received the organs of non-smokers practically do not differ.
31.01.2013A new type of flu vaccine, in the production of which neither the virus itself nor chicken eggs are used, will soon appear on the American market. The main feature of this vaccine is that when it is created, an insect virus and recombinant DNA are used.
31.01.2013What is useful bioinformatics and what is interesting about "useless" bioinformatics, why one should not be afraid of GMOs and how one can study the cell as a whole, in his lecture on "Gazeta.Ru" says Professor Mikhail Gelfand.
31.01.2013According to the forecasts of experts of the analytical company Cowen & Co, 2013 may become the year of "antisense technologies" due to the large number of promising experimental drugs at the stage of clinical trials.
31.01.2013The decrease in CD98hc protein synthesis observed in old mice confirms its role in tissue preservation, hair follicle cycle and skin healing, which are disrupted with age.
31.01.2013A clinical pharmacologist commented on the information of foreign media about the "decline of the era of antibiotics."
30.01.2013Seminar on the BIO-2020 program in Rusnano: 2013 will be decisive in the selection of regional projects for state programs to support biotechnology.
30.01.2013Known due to the characteristic smell of rotten eggs, hydrogen sulfide gas can slow down the aging process through a wide range of mechanisms.
30.01.2013Together with the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore, IBM specialists have created a biocompatible hydrogel. Its antibacterial and antifungal properties are due not to chemical, but exclusively to physical effects.
30.01.2013The average life expectancy of people with Fabry disease without treatment is no more than 40 years. The first object of clinical trials of gene therapy for this disease was a 34-year-old Canadian.
30.01.2013Why is there still an open field on the site of innograd? When will the first product "Made in Skolkovo" appear? Is our developments in danger of an "innovative hap"? The correspondent of "RG" talks about this with the vice-president of the Skolkovo Foundation Alexander Chernov.
30.01.2013American biologists have learned how to correct damaged molecules of the p53 protein in cancer cells, which protects healthy cells from the appearance of fatal mutations in DNA, which will quickly and practically guarantee to rid patients of some forms of cancer in the near future.
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