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Your health

Smoking is harmful. And why?

Many smokers realize that they are doing, to put it mildly, not quite right. But in disputes with non-smokers, they usually throw the phrase "And prove to me that smoking is harmful!". Well, they ask – we will prove it.

21.11.2008
New in Gerontology

Biological age can be determined by the activity of genes

Calculating biological age is not an easy task. Now it is possible to measure aging by the activity of certain genes, but so far only in roundworms – the favorite of geneticists Caenorhabditis elegans.

21.11.2008
Cellular technologies

Gemabank turns 5 years old!

Gemabank became one of the first institutions in Russia to collect umbilical cord blood at birth, extract stem cells from it and store them at an ultra-low temperature for many years.

21.11.2008
Healthy skepticism

Do they lose weight from pills?

There can be no good pills for excess weight. Now there are only three medicines whose effectiveness in the fight against excess weight is clinically proven. These drugs have a lot of contraindications and side effects. All over the world, these products are sold strictly according to a doctor's prescription and are not recommended for everyone losing weight, but only for those whose body mass index is above 30.

20.11.2008
Nanotechnology

Tracer nanoparticles

Harmless calcium phosphate particles with a size of 20-50 nanometers successfully pass into cells and dissolve, releasing their "cargo" – a drug and a fluorescent dye.

20.11.2008
Biomedicine

Cocktail for little roommates

Developed more than thirty years ago, a special solution for the recovery of patients after surgery later found registration in toxicology, and in the light of new knowledge about the symbiosis of humans and bacteria proved to be in demand in the treatment of a number of diseases.

19.11.2008
Biomedicine

Biomedicine News

Neurons from the stem cells of the tooth pulp; what is the difference between the brain of old people with a clear mind; an experimental drug based on "anti-microRNA" to protect the heart.

19.11.2008
New in Gerontology

Old people! Don't be afraid of sex!

Now a person aged 65 can safely expect to live another two decades or so. Naturally, many people want to make up for those hours of sex that were "lost" earlier due to stressful work, crying children or fears of getting pregnant.

18.11.2008
Other life sciences

Insidious test tubes

Perhaps many of the problems faced by geneticists and microbiologists when growing cell cultures in the laboratory are due precisely to the influence of the test tube material, due to which some indicators may differ from the correct ones by dozens of times!

18.11.2008
Innovative Russia

Business angels invest in innovative Russia

In the near and distant future, the activities of business angels seem promising. This is also relevant because the deficit of financial resources at the "sowing" stage in Russia is about 100 billion rubles. And investments in small innovative businesses bring high returns.

18.11.2008
Nanotechnology

Nanomedicine and Nanobiology at Rusnanotech-2008

Details of the scientific and business program of the forum and exhibition can be found on the Rusnanotech-2008 website. And here are the sections of his program concerning medical and biological applications of nanotechnology.

17.11.2008
Healthy skepticism

Free medicine

The deplorable state of Russian free medicine has become a byword. It's no secret that the level of treatment on a commercial basis, as a rule, is practically no different from what "free" patients receive. Nevertheless, the relevance and timeliness of the FAS's intentions to introduce a ban on the provision of paid medical services in public health facilities are highly questionable.

17.11.2008
Grants and competitions

SMART GUY-2009

The Bortnik Foundation begins accepting applications under the program "Participant of the youth scientific and innovative competition" ("U.M.N.I.K.") for 2009.

17.11.2008
Your health

Botulinum toxin in cosmetology — poison or medicine?

The desire of people to rejuvenate and become prettier at all costs and their willingness to pay a lot of money for it has led to the fact that very risky methods are often used in modern cosmetology.

14.11.2008
Healthy skepticism

Rejuvenate your oncology!

Across the ocean, painfully familiar healers are hustling, offering to rejuvenate your everything. Even urology, gynecology and oncology.

14.11.2008