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The Nobel Prize in Economics is also for biomedicine!

A side result of the work of economist Alvin Roth was an algorithm for selecting donors for kidney transplantation, with the help of which about 2,000 patients were saved from death over 10 years.

17.10.2012
Grants and competitions

EuroTransBio invites biotechnologists to the competition

The EuroTransBio project is designed to implement projects in the field of biotechnology with an exclusive focus on supporting small businesses and stimulating them for trans-European cooperation.

15.10.2012
Biomedicine

To restore aged muscles, block myostatin

Even patients with reduced muscle mass due to the suppression of the function of satellite cells are capable of some restoration of muscle tone with the help of drug therapy that blocks the activity of myostatin.

15.10.2012
Healthy skepticism

Stem confusion: detailed analysis

The hero of the next stem scandal gave a press conference. At the same time, he changed his testimony, dodged and was repeatedly convicted of lying and falsification. And once in such cases, the Japanese simply did hara-kiri...

15.10.2012
Biomedicine

New drug may ease the effects of stroke

The experimental drug NA-1, designed to prevent irreversible damage in stroke, is safe for patients and reduces the number of ischemic infarction zones in the brain.

12.10.2012
Your health

Stroke prevention: more tomatoes!

The high content of the antioxidant lycopene in the blood reduces the risk of stroke by more than 2 times. Especially a lot of lycopene is contained in tomatoes.

12.10.2012
Various

Unrecognized life expectancy record

Although the birth certificate and passport indicate that Antisa Khvichava was born in 1880, these are not originals, but copies. Therefore, it cannot be officially recognized that she died at the age of 132.

11.10.2012
Biomedicine

Alzheimer's disease: we will go the other way!

Unfortunately, it seems that the fight against the main symptom of Alzheimer's disease – amyloid plaques – is useless. It is possible that workarounds for the treatment of this disease will be effective.

11.10.2012
Biomedicine

Another way to deliver drugs to cancer cells

French scientists propose a new approach to solving an old problem: the enzyme beta-galactosidase generates an active drug from an inactive precursor that can only be captured by cancer cells.

11.10.2012