Credulity and gratitude are hereditary signs
Differences between people in the degree of "trustfulness" and "gratitude" are at least 10-20% genetically predetermined.
11.03.2008Differences between people in the degree of "trustfulness" and "gratitude" are at least 10-20% genetically predetermined.
11.03.2008For people without medical education, the concept of immunity and its weakening is mainly formed by advertising companies of drugs aimed at "strengthening" and "strengthening" the immunity that is obviously reduced for everyone.
11.03.2008The RVC Board of Directors also unanimously approved the development of the so-called "seed stage" of venture capital. Probably, 1 billion rubles will be allocated from the budget for this project.
11.03.2008How, when encountering unusual hypotheses or discoveries in print, to distinguish a sensational breakthrough in a particular field of science from pseudoscientific fictions? Michael Shermer, an American historian of science, offers ten criteria that will help to do this.
11.03.2008Other discoveries are waiting for us in the near future. We will gradually write down the responsibility of each gene, and 150 years of life will become something natural and normal. This will happen much sooner than many people think. We'll have time to see it.
06.03.2008Homozygous mutants of the second generation lived ten times longer, but turned out to be infertile. Maybe it is possible to somehow compensate for the infertility associated with the age-1 gene and leave only immortality?
04.03.2008Finding a "Macropoulos remedy" that allows you to defeat old age with one pill is a hopeless task, but in recent years, the problems of gerontology have attracted increasing attention from researchers in various fields of life sciences.
04.03.2008Hydrogen peroxide, which is included in tobacco smoke, even in small concentrations activates the receptor responsible for the reaction of lung epithelial cells to growth factor, a signaling molecule with which the body controls the renewal of the lung surface. As a result, the cells begin to divide more actively.
03.03.2008Doctors are confident that Russian patients – both ordinary staff and superiors – will soon realize that it is much more profitable to monitor their health by undergoing medical examinations and doing prevention every year than paying for the treatment of a neglected disease.
29.02.2008A whole industry has developed around weight loss, making a lot of money on the desire to lose "extra pounds". And this topic has become overgrown with myths, like the bottom of a ship with shells.
29.02.2008Hydrocolonotherapy only skillfully pretends to be the latest technique, but in fact it is an ordinary enema. With all the consequences – in every sense of the word.
29.02.2008Cosmetics that would be able to "intelligently" influence the genetic mechanisms of skin cells are still as far from real embodiment as gene therapy of diseases.
27.02.2008The organism of a higher animal is able to get rid of mutant mitochondria extremely effectively: they disappear after 2-6 generations. The selection of normal mitochondria occurs in female germ cells or at the subcellular level.
27.02.2008Every fall, requests appear on Internet forums and women's websites to help you lose weight quickly for the New Year. And after that – by spring. Ladies get a lot of advice and really lose weight, and then return to the previous diet and get back their kilograms.
27.02.2008Vegetarians can be safely considered not only fanatics, but also lost sheep. Almost no one argues with them. It's a difficult business, I'll tell you. Isn't that why the vegetarian movement has turned around so famously, recruiting more and more recruits into its ranks?
27.02.2008The search for ways to reduce the size of chips and increase the number of transistors placed on them led IBM scientists to a completely new way of creating processors using DNA molecules.
26.02.2008The authors agree with the position of most epidemiologists that the most important thing is to stop the spread of the disease at an early stage, even when there is no specific method of its treatment.
26.02.2008A new line of genetically modified mice allowed scientists at the Scripps Research Institute to identify cellular contacts formed during the memorization process.
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