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Prolonging youth

Pills for a healthy old age

The fact that many elderly people are trying to improve their appearance and generally slow down or even reverse the aging process has become very relevant for attending physicians.

27.09.2012
Biomedicine

A crutch for a disabled sperm

British biologists were able to fertilize female eggs using defective spermatozoa by adding the protein PLCz, which is missing in sperm, necessary for the fusion of male and female germ cells, to a test tube with cells

27.09.2012
Biomedicine

microRNAs will protect the heart from hypertrophy

Scientists hope that miR-212 and miR-132 micro-RNA inhibitors, alone or in combination with other therapeutic techniques, can become a completely new approach to the treatment and prevention of heart failure in humans.

27.09.2012
New in Gerontology

Positive results of progeria treatment were obtained for the first time

Lonafarnib is a drug for the treatment of cancer, improved the condition of children with progeria. The study of its and other farnesyltransferase inhibitors will help to better understand the causes of diseases of the cardiovascular system and the mechanisms of normal aging.

27.09.2012
Other life sciences

Alzheimer's disease: an offensive on all fronts

September 2012 received the status of the first world Alzheimer's Disease month. In this regard, Professor Philippe Amuel, director of the DISTALZ program, answers questions from the correspondent of the Indian Express Pharma website.

27.09.2012
Your health

The nocebo effect

While the placebo effect, in which a patient's positive expectations can have a therapeutic effect, is relatively well known and studied, the nocebo effect is its little-known bad twin brother.

26.09.2012
Biomedicine

Keratin antibiotic?

Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley found small fragments of keratin proteins with powerful antimicrobial properties in the cornea of the human eye.

26.09.2012
Healthy skepticism

Harm of GM corn: the opinion of non-pseudo-scientists

The comments of the scientific community about the article on the oncogenic effect of genetically modified corn do not leave a stone unturned from the horror stories of French pseudoscientists.

26.09.2012
Other life sciences

Naked diggers will help to cope with pain

The study of mechanisms that allow naked diggers to live in conditions of carbon dioxide concentrations incompatible with the vital activity of other mammals gives hope for the development of new methods of anesthesia.

25.09.2012
Biotechnologies - into life

The most innovative cluster in St. Petersburg

Of the ten St. Petersburg clusters, Life Science promises to be the most innovative, created this year by combining two clusters – medical and pharmaceutical and radiation technologies.

25.09.2012
Your health

Workaholism is a dangerous disease

Workaholics have a significantly increased risk of heart disease, stroke, early senile dementia, guaranteed problems in the family. And chronic fatigue increases the risk of professional mistakes.

24.09.2012
Nanotechnology

Another nanopore design for DNA sequencing

The new technology of DNA sequencing using nanopores has the potential to greatly increase the speed and reduce the cost of this procedure.

24.09.2012
Other life sciences

Natural killers protect against lung cancer

The result of the study is not that the responsibility for cancer was assigned to poor immunity (its role in the development of cancer has long been known), but that it was possible to find out which immune cells protect us from lung cancer.

24.09.2012
Nanotechnology

A new method for imaging nanoparticles in vivo

Spanish researchers demonstrated on the example of laboratory rats that positron emission tomography can be used to track the distribution of nanoparticles labeled with radioactive fluorine throughout the body.

24.09.2012