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Your health

A drop of alcohol kills a rat

Before enthusiastically "treating" yourself with red wine for future cardiovascular problems or warming up your appetite with a portion of something stronger, ask yourself if you are ready to pay for it with your own memory.

25.10.2012
Genetics

How will a placebo affect you?

The ability to predict the placebo effect in advance, based on the analysis of variations of just one gene, will help reduce the scale, cost and duration of clinical trials.

25.10.2012
Genetics

Intelligence genes are multiplying rapidly

Scientists predict that the number of intelligence genes may be more than a thousand. Why has always rational nature in this case turned out to be so wasteful?

24.10.2012
Various

Stars don't age

At the recent New York Fashion Week, 81-year-old fashion model Carmen Dell took to the catwalk’Offer. Her appearance again stirred up the debate about whether it is worthy to flaunt yourself at such an age and whether it's time for Grandma to have a well-deserved rest.

24.10.2012
Other life sciences

A new target for drugs against Parkinson's disease

The mutation responsible for the development of both familial and sporadic cases of Parkinson's disease causes deformation of the membrane surrounding the nuclei of brain stem cells. "In vitro" the normal function of mutant cells has already been restored.

24.10.2012
Prolonging youth

Passport, biological, psychological age…

With the so-called successful aging, not only the biological, but also the psychological age of a person lags behind the chronological one. However, the concept of psychological age is not scientifically developed enough.

23.10.2012
Biomedicine

A new epigenetic marker of breast cancer

The DOK7 gene as a marker of breast cancer has unique prognostic characteristics: hypermethylation of one of its promoters in peripheral blood cells can be detected several years before diagnosis.

23.10.2012
Cellular technologies

The neuron lived, the neuron is alive, the neuron will live!

The unexpectedly high survival rate of embryonic neurons in the brains of newborn mice gives hope for the effective use of nerve cell transplantation for the treatment of neurodegenerative and other neurological diseases.

23.10.2012
Healthy skepticism

There are no barriers for us!

In Skolkovo, they are seriously going to discuss the possibility of creating a perpetual motion machine – a unique power plant with an efficiency of more than 100%.

23.10.2012
Various

Bra against breast cancer

Engineers at First Warning Systems have developed a bra with a temperature sensor system that allows you to detect breast tissue abnormalities years before the appearance of a registered tumor.

22.10.2012
Various

Reverse mortgage will help you live out your retirement

To the delicate question of what will happen to a pensioner who will survive the 10 years required for payments, the Agency for the Restructuring of Mortgage Housing Loans confidently answers that he will not be evicted to the street, and banks will not be at a loss either.

19.10.2012
Cellular technologies

New data on endothelial stem cells

Researchers at the University of Helsinki have confirmed the importance of the role played by endothelial stem cells in the formation of new blood vessels.

19.10.2012
Prolonging youth

Young blood is indeed the source of youth

Transfusion of the blood of young animals to old mice changes the expression of genes in neurons and weakens the symptoms of senile dementia. It remains to find out which of the hundreds of proteins provide this effect.

18.10.2012
Cellular technologies

Let's hit the micropallets with cells with ultrasound!

The use of ultrasound makes it possible to selectively separate micropallets in a fraction of a second. In addition, the survival rate of cells at the same time exceeds 90%, which is much better than the indicators of any modern technology, the highest achievement of which is 50%

18.10.2012
New in Gerontology

Stem cell dysfunction, aging and cancer

Scientists from the Barcelona Center for Genomic Regulation have managed to discover new processes that control the aging of skin stem cells and link the aging process with diseases such as cancer.

18.10.2012
Other life sciences

Regeneration in mammals: new data

Scientists have described the process of regeneration of the rat bladder, the essence of which is the alternate proliferation of cells of different types.

18.10.2012
Controversial

Are medical examinations a waste of time?

A meta-analysis of 14 studies involving almost 183,000 people showed that regular medical examinations do not reduce either overall mortality or mortality from serious diseases such as cancer and heart disease.

18.10.2012