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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
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