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Your health

Wine is healthier than vodka: tested on pigs

Scientists have concluded that red wine has the greatest positive effect on the heart of pigs with elevated cholesterol levels and its mechanism of action differs from the mechanism of action of vodka.

12.09.2012
Grants and competitions

Postgraduate Course in Biomedicine in Basel

The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research announces the recruitment of young specialists to study under the international postgraduate program with a PhD degree from the University of Basel.

12.09.2012
Note to the businessman

Forbes announces a new startup competition

Startups created no earlier than September 1, 2011, but with an already existing prototype of a technology, product, or the fact of the first sale, if we are talking about services, can take part in the Forbes competition. There are no restrictions on the field of activity.

11.09.2012
Your health

Placebo and nocebo work in the subcortex

Placebo and nocebo effects may occur not as a result of (self-) suggestion, but at an unconscious level, even before information enters the cerebral cortex.

11.09.2012
Genetics

Ancient genome reveals its secrets

The results of the genome analysis of the girl, whose remains were found in 2008 in the Denisov cave in Altai, shed light on the kinship between the "Denisov man" and modern people.

11.09.2012
Exhibitions and conferences

ImagineNano-2013

The second exhibition of achievements of world nanoscience and nanotechnology "ImagineNano" will be held in Bilbao (Spain) on April 23-26, 2013.

11.09.2012
Biomedicine

The brain is wide open

The experimental treatment method, tested so far on laboratory rats, increases the saturation of the brain with low-molecular therapeutic compounds several times.

10.09.2012
Genetic engineering

Alzheimer's disease: a new target

Removal of the gene of one of the enzymes in mice with the Alzheimer's disease model led to a record improvement in all typical symptoms and objective indicators of the disease.

10.09.2012
Genetics

New genes of predisposition to glaucoma

Three genetic variants associated with primary angle–closure glaucoma, a disease that is the leading cause of blindness in the population of Asian countries, were found.

07.09.2012
Other life sciences

Walking with an exoskeleton

The Kessler Foundation charity has released preliminary results of a clinical trial of the Ekso wearable robotic exoskeleton for patients with spinal cord injury.

07.09.2012
Your health

Is thickness a guarantee of health?

The results of two studies on obesity have confirmed the long–known "obesity paradox" - half of fat people have a completely normal state of health, and fat people are less likely to die from heart disease than thin people.

07.09.2012
Genetics

Fanconi cancer and anemia

Data on the genetic mechanisms of DNA repair disorders in a rare hereditary disease – Fanconi anemia – can provide important information about various types of cancer.

07.09.2012
Various

The most effective spinach-based biohybrid photocell

Chemists from Vanderbilt University, combining silicon and spinach protein involved in photosynthesis, have created a photocell that turns light into electricity much more efficiently than existing "biohybrid" devices of a similar type.

07.09.2012
Genetics

DNA is not "junk"

Billions of genome nucleotides considered "junk" play an important role in human biology: for example, they help determine when a gene is turned on or off.

06.09.2012