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Prolonging youth

To grow up to a hundred years ... of sexuality!

A person who regularly lives a sexual life will have sex to the grave. This is normal for a man, unless his health is damaged by alcohol, drugs, some diseases.

27.06.2012
Bioethics

The right to suicide

The European Court of Human Rights will consider two new cases concerning euthanasia and assisted suicide, Koch v. Germany and Alda Gross v. Sweden.

27.06.2012
Genetics

Reading Genomes

An abridged version of the lecture "What have we learned from the Neanderthal genome?" by M. Gelfand, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of the Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics of Moscow State University.

27.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Own kidney on a pig carcass

The researchers removed all the cells from the pig kidney, leaving its skeleton and circulatory system. In the future, the patient's own cells will be seeded into the frame.

26.06.2012
Your health

Cancer in Russia: the truth from the first hand

D.G.Zaridze, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Deputy. Director of the N.N.Blokhin Cancer Research Center, visiting professor at Oxford University: "Cancer mortality is declining in Russia, but there is no merit of healthcare in this."

26.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Almost a real liver "in vitro"

Japanese researchers forced pluripotent stem cells to form rudimentary liver tissue in vitro.

26.06.2012
Biomedicine

Two vaccines for cocaine addiction

Cornell University researchers have developed two vaccines that use different mechanisms to stimulate the production of antibodies that block cocaine molecules before they enter the brain.

26.06.2012
Prolonging youth

Blocking one protein slows down aging

Suppression of the synthesis of a single protein - the nuclear factor-Kappa-bi (NF-Kappa B) – allowed scientists to slow down the aging of mice.

26.06.2012
Genetics

Science on a pea

The exhibition "Science on a Pea" in the Darwin Museum is dedicated to the anniversaries of three remarkable scientists at once - the 190th anniversary of the birth of G. Mendel, the 140th anniversary of the birth of N.K.Koltsov and the 130th anniversary of the birth of M.P.Sadovnikova-Koltsova.

26.06.2012
Biotechnologies - into life

Russians at BIO 2012

At the BIO International Convention, a collective exposition of leading Russian companies developing innovative projects in the field of biotechnology within the framework of the implementation of the Pharma 2020 strategy was presented.

26.06.2012
Other life sciences

Eight million cancer drug candidates

In search of a substance capable of inhibiting P-glycoprotein, a protein that prevents the effect of chemotherapy on cancer cells, scientists tested eight million compounds using computer modeling.

25.06.2012
Healthy skepticism

Horror stories about transplantology

Transplantology is an area, as if deliberately set aside, on the one hand, for real medical miracles, and on the other – for rumors, speculation, gossip, blackmail, bad-smelling PR and dense ignorance.

25.06.2012
Your health

Blood pressure: measured correctly

It would seem that there is nothing easier than to measure the pressure, especially with an electronic tonometer. But here, as in every case, there are pitfalls. If you stumble upon such a one, you will miss or overdo 10-20 mm Hg.

25.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Artificial trachea: technology is being improved

The difference between the Krasnodar operation and the Moscow one is that the frame of the trachea and part of the larynx was not taken from a donor, but prepared artificially. It is planned to carry out a series of such transplants within the framework of the megagrant.

25.06.2012
Your health

We are forced to poison you, Russians

Farmers and producers of agricultural products in private conversations say that most of the products on the Russian markets are counterfeit.

22.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Italians in Russia: tracheal and laryngeal bioprosthesis

The first tracheal and laryngeal transplant operation in Russia was successfully performed at the Krasnodar Regional Clinical Hospital under the guidance of Paolo Macchiarini, Professor of Regenerative Surgery at the Karolinska Institute.

22.06.2012
Your health

Treat diabetes – stay sane longer

In elderly people with diabetes (especially those who do not care about lowering blood sugar), senile dementia progresses much faster than in their healthy peers.

22.06.2012