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Your health

Medications for parkinsonism provoke pathological behavior

Taking drugs of the dopamine receptor agonist group in the treatment of Parkinson's disease increases the risk of "impulse control disorders" several times, expressed in the appearance of various addictions (sexual, gaming, food, etc.).

14.05.2010
Healthy skepticism

Tell the narcogene "face"!

"Narcogen" removes negative information from the DNA of alcoholics and drug addicts and records useful information in its place! Efficiency – 101.5%! But the harsh FAS ordered to stop advertising "Narcogen" and opened a case to determine the amount of the fine.

13.05.2010
Other life sciences

Unequal marriage and life expectancy

Men whose wives are younger live longer. But the life expectancy of a wife is less, the greater the age difference between the spouses. At the same time, it does not matter whether the wife is older than her spouse or younger.

13.05.2010
New in Gerontology

Another way to prolong life: arrest arrestin

Removal of the arrestin gene from the genome of nematodes led to an increase in the lifespan of these organisms by 30%, while a three-fold increase in the expression of this gene reduced it by 30%.

12.05.2010
Biotechnologies - into life

Giamatrix – almost living skin

"Giamatrix", a substitute for living skin based on a polymer of hyaluronic acid, closes a burn or wound and helps healing, as it resolves. A cosmetic version of the bio-skin and an anti-aging peptide complex have already gone on sale.

11.05.2010
Genetics

We are all a bit Neanderthal

The results of the rough decoding of the Neanderthal nuclear genome and its comparison with the genomes of modern Europeans, Asians, Papuans and Africans confirmed the version about the crossing of Neanderthals with ancient Europeans.

11.05.2010
Cellular technologies

Super-pluripotent stem cells

Researchers have created a cocktail of four molecules that increases the pluripotency of human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells.

07.05.2010
Note to the businessman

RUSNANO and MP Biomedicals Anti-aging

RUSNANO and MP Biomedicals plan to implement projects in the field of nanotechnology in biotechnology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, including those aimed at increasing human life expectancy and combating aging.

06.05.2010
Biomedicine

Cancer vaccine: the second and not the last

The Provenge prostate cancer vaccine is the second one approved by the FDA. The first, Gardasil, helps prevent infection of women with papillomavirus, which is the main cause of cervical cancer.

05.05.2010
Bioethics

The Indian DNA Case

The Havasupai Indians sued the scientists for $700,000 because they studied their DNA not only in search of the causes of predisposition to diabetes, as they were going to, but analyzed the DNA and the origin of Havasupai, and their propensity to other diseases.

05.05.2010
Exhibitions and conferences

IV Moscow Venture Forum

As in previous years, the Forum will bring together all participants in the investment process, from developers to business angels and investors.

05.05.2010
New in Gerontology

Aging and ways to prolong life: taking lessons from yeast

Many of the most important mechanisms of aging have hardly changed over billions of years of evolution and work not only in yeast, but also in mammals. The study of yeast aging made it possible to find the most promising geroprotectors currently being developed.

04.05.2010