Healthy skepticism
Lies, blatant lies and advertising
Advertising and packaging of various kinds of products contain countless amounts of information that is either half-truth or half-lie.
25.07.2011- English version
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Bioethics
Rules for Dr. Moreau's heirs
The authors of the report "Animals containing human material" believe that the area of special attention should be attempts to give animals the traits that make up human essence.
25.07.2011
Your health
A pill for sclerosis
Almost half of patients with chronic diseases forget to take their medications on time. And if a course of several medications and a complicated schedule is prescribed? Here a healthy person will feel like a sclerotic.
22.07.2011
Biomedicine
A vaccine against heroin addiction has been created
In response to the introduction of the "dynamic vaccine", antibodies against heroin and its derivatives began to be synthesized in the body. As a result, four out of seven experimental drug addicts voluntarily and without additional treatment refused heroin.
22.07.2011
Your health
Sunscreen? Better a hat and an awning!
Staying in the shade and wearing hats and closed clothes protects the skin from burns and possible development of skin cancer much more reliably than widely advertised sunscreens.
21.07.2011
Other life sciences
If you want to be a father...
Half of the men have one defective copy of the DEF126 gene, a quarter have both, and their sperm cannot reach the egg. With all the consequences. And it's better not to read about what smoking, even passive smoking, does to sperm…
21.07.2011
Genetics
Moore 's Genome
The personal genome of Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel and the author of the famous Moore's law on the rate of increase in the number of transistors on a chip, was sequenced using thousands of chips with 1.2 million tiny holes on each.
21.07.2011
Exhibitions and conferences
Patents'2011
The second All-Russian practical conference "Patents'2011" will be held on October 7, 2011 in the building of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (6 Ilyinka St., Moscow).
21.07.2011
Note to the businessman
Buy BigFarma shares!
Shares of Big Pharma players are always popular with investors who consider such an investment as one of the reliable ways to get a stable income and increase the cost of capital.
20.07.2011
Note to the businessman
Your health
Breast cancer: who is forewarned is armed
Breast cancer detected in the early stages is cured in almost 90% of cases.
20.07.2011
Other life sciences
Where is the mainspring of the "clock of life"?
DARPA hopes to find the "main clock generator" of the internal chronometer that sets the rhythm of all life processes in the human body.
19.07.2011
Genetics
The burden of whites: alcoholism, obesity, depression
According to a study by Scottish scientists, Europeans have a tendency to fatty foods, alcohol and the development of depression literally in the blood. Or rather, in the genes.
19.07.2011
Cellular technologies
Another way to directly convert fibroblasts into neurons
Adding two microRNAs to the usual genetic material of skin cells is enough to turn these cells into fully functional neurons, bypassing the stem cell stage.
18.07.2011
Biomedicine
Are you afraid of Alzheimer's? Chew grape seeds!
After treatment of mice with an Alzheimer's disease model with polyphenols isolated from grape seeds, the content of the beta-amyloid peptide oligomer in their brains decreased significantly.
18.07.2011
Cellular technologies
Will the treatment of blindness lift Advanced Cell out of the financial pit?
Researchers regard the experiment with blindness as an important milestone. This is also a significant step for Advanced Cell, which is experiencing serious economic difficulties due to disputes about the ethics of using embryonic stem cells.
18.07.2011
Genetic engineering
Editing genomes
The technology of replacing some codons in the genome with others in the future will allow us to create organisms with a genetic code that differs from the existing one and completely new properties.
18.07.2011
Grants and competitions
The second competition for developers of medicines and medical equipment
The Bortnik Foundation announces the PHARMA 2011-2 competition for the development of technologies for the production of medicines, medical equipment and medical devices used in the diagnosis and treatment of socially significant diseases.
18.07.2011
Cellular technologies
Mouse-mouse, here's a tooth for you!
Researchers at the University of Tokyo managed to grow full-fledged teeth with dental bones and connective fibers from mouse stem cells and successfully transplant them into the jaws of animals.
15.07.2011
Other life sciences
Ependymal cells are the "source of youth" of the brain
The secret of the ability of brain stem cells to turn into neurons lies in the cellular structures formed by ependymal cells that provide stem cells with the necessary support.
15.07.2011