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Your health

Health and education: egg or chicken?

Whatever the root cause, everyone recognizes the existence of an obvious link between the level of education, material well-being, mortality rate and the state of health of people.

24.09.2012
Biomedicine

Big Pharma has cooled to Alzheimer's

Leading pharmaceutical companies have questioned the economic feasibility of developing new drugs for Alzheimer's disease.

21.09.2012
Biomedicine

Capsules for obesity

Implantation of capsules with cells that trigger fat burning relieved mice on a high-calorie diet from obesity.

21.09.2012
Healthy skepticism

Shnobelevka-2012

The next awarding of the Nobel Prize took place. Let's see for what merits the Nobelists were honored this time.

21.09.2012
Your health

Russian men do not value their health

For many men, the topic of a healthy lifestyle is just an excuse for humor. How to make them take care of their health and live no less than women?

21.09.2012
Note to the businessman

Investment Search: Investor Tips

The main theses of the master class of Sergey Gribov, Managing Partner of Startup Access and Director of Minerva Capital Partners.

21.09.2012
Your health

Sewage and the reproductive system

The impact on the ecosystem of synthetic chemical compounds that disrupt the endocrine system of animals and humans may be no less significant than climate change.

20.09.2012
Other life sciences

Another cause of obesity

The absence or insufficient number of so-called AgRP neurons in the center of metabolism in the brain of mice causes obesity in cases when their diet is excessively saturated with sugar and other carbohydrates.

20.09.2012
Various

Tooth cover

An elastic lining with a thickness of 0.004 mm based on calcium hydroxyapatite should protect teeth not only from caries, but also from hypersensitivity. And at the same time, it will make them white forever.

20.09.2012
Various

Young fifties

According to a sociological study conducted in the UK, most residents of this country believe that old age begins after 70 years. And youth ends only at 55.

20.09.2012
Genetics

Diabetes and cancer: bound by the same gene

The discovery of a new function of the PTEN anti-oncogene will allow us to better understand the mechanisms of type 2 diabetes development and advance in the development of its treatment methods.

19.09.2012
Other life sciences

A new look at the placebo effect

Mathematical models developed by scientists from the University of Bristol allow us to take a fresh look at the causes of the placebo effect, and perhaps learn how to control its manifestation.

19.09.2012
Genetics

Diagnosis by genes: truth and fiction

Doctor of Biological Sciences Yuri Aulchenko about genetic tests: which of them can be trusted, and which are outright commerce.

19.09.2012
Bioethics

Should the birth of "three-parent" children be allowed?

The UK has launched a public consultation on the controversial method of in vitro "three-parent" fertilization (IVF with three parents), which will allow families with incurable diseases to have healthy children

19.09.2012
Innovative Russia

Russia is promised a fantastic development of biomedicine

The Ministry of Health will submit to the government a strategy for the development of biomedicine, as well as a law on biomedical products and assures that Russia by 2016 (!) can become a leader in the field of biomedicine.

18.09.2012