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Prolonging youth

Sedentary lifestyle

Reducing the time a person spends sitting to less than three hours a day can extend their life by two years. And by reducing the time of watching TV to two hours a day, you can "throw" yourself almost another year and a half of life.

10.07.2012
Biomedicine

Obesity vaccines show promise

Do you want to lose weight? Hurry up to enroll in clinical trials: two obesity vaccines have demonstrated good results in experiments on mice.

10.07.2012
Biomedicine

Anti-cancer nanocreme

Therapeutic nanoparticles mixed with ordinary moisturizer not only penetrated the skin, but also attacked cancer cells without causing any side effects.

10.07.2012
Controversial

Cancer and aging – is everything not as we thought?

According to the author of the new hypothesis, the reason for the age-related increase in cancer risk is not the accumulation of mutations, but changes that occur with tissues during aging.

09.07.2012
Nanotechnology

Into a blood clot with nanometer accuracy

Nanoparticles made of biodegradable material release a medicinal substance – a tissue plasminogen activator – only at the site of a vessel blockage, destroying a blood clot in a matter of minutes and causing no side effects.

09.07.2012
Innovative Russia

Victories and defeats of modern Russian innovators

In response to accusations of insufficient innovation, domestic business blames the fact that science is divorced from reality and works most often for itself. Scientists themselves partly agree with this. But there are changes in this area.

09.07.2012
Genetics

Genetic race with Pursuit

Academician Konstantin Scriabin: "If we lag behind in the genetic race, the consequences will be heavier than if we lag behind in the nuclear or space field."

09.07.2012
Nanotechnology

Disposable chip for rapid diagnosis of cancer

The microfluidic device provides reliable diagnosis of oral cancer in just 50 minutes. The technique can be easily adapted to detect other forms of cancer.

09.07.2012
Biomedicine

Healthy cells Help Cancers Resist Chemotherapy

The ability to resist chemotherapy is determined not by the cells of the tumor itself, but by healthy "neighbors". This finding will improve the effectiveness of cancer treatment.

09.07.2012
Other life sciences

Stop the development of cancer?

It is possible that the identification of a protein complex that allows cancer cells to bypass the mechanism of self-destruction will allow us to develop a way to prevent the formation of malignant tumors.

06.07.2012
Innovative Russia

Rusnano did not fire for four reasons

In general, these four reasons mean that Rusnano Corporation is run by not very honest people who are very far from the business that they are entrusted with and entrusted with. Having very vague ideas about him.

06.07.2012
Bioethics

Paid donation is legalized

A federal court has ruled that leukemia patients will be able to buy bone marrow stem cells needed for transplantation from a donor for $ 3,000.

05.07.2012
Other life sciences

Bacterial enzyme against caries

The most thorough cleaning of teeth is not able to guarantee that you will not get caries in the future. The enzyme of the bacterium Bacillus licheniformis proved to be an effective remedy against plaque.

05.07.2012
Genetics

Breast cancer: Size matters

Of the 7 identified single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with large breast size, 3 are closely related to other "snips" correlating with an increased risk of breast cancer.

05.07.2012
Innovative Russia

Skolkovo billions

The state does not spare money for Skolkovo – until 2014 it will pump about 85 billion rubles there. This is without taking into account voluntary and compulsory deductions of state-owned companies – also by tens of billions. How is this money distributed?

05.07.2012
Genetics

New "osteoarthritis genes"

Scientists from the University of Newcastle have managed to identify eight new DNA sites responsible for the development of osteoarthritis. Previously, three areas of the genetic code responsible for osteoarthritis were identified.

04.07.2012