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Gentamicin against dementia

The antibiotic was proposed to be used as a medicine of the second most common type of dementia after Alzheimer's disease.

14.01.2020
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Surgical treatment of diabetes

After surgery to combat extreme obesity, 98.9% of patients stopped suffering from type 2 diabetes.

30.12.2019
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The evolution of HIV

According to new data, the trend towards increasing HIV infection is stable and does not depend on the infection control strategy.

27.12.2019
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Homo erectus in our DNA?

About 100 thousand years ago, erectus still lived in Java and could transmit their genes to modern man through a Denisovan.

25.12.2019
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Follicle Simulator

The effect on the muscle that surrounds the hair follicles will help prevent hair loss.

25.12.2019
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Cancer on a chip

With the help of a tumor on a coin-sized device, testing anti-cancer drugs will become easier and more effective.

24.12.2019
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Will there be no universal vaccine?

The imperfection of our immune system leads to the fact that the body is helpless before new strains of the influenza pathogen.

23.12.2019
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Diabetes Profile

The lipid profile of the blood determines the risk of developing type 2 diabetes more accurately than the presence of obesity in a person.

19.12.2019
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AI beat oncologists again

Artificial intelligence has found signs of cancer recurrence that were not noticed by humans.

19.12.2019
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Carcinogenicity was tested on hepatocytes

The new screening method is faster, simpler and more accurate than the existing ones to determine whether a substance can cause cancer.

18.12.2019
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Calculating the risk of death

A simple test will predict the likelihood of dementia patients dying within three years after diagnosis.

17.12.2019
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A breach in the defense

Nanomotors drill through bacterial shells and make antibiotics effective again, even for antibiotic-resistant strains.

16.12.2019
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Prospects for organ replacement

How do scientists create artificial organs? What is the future of transplantology? Experts talk about organ replacement technologies.

16.12.2019
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Colonoscopy with intelligence

The new technique, borrowed from ophthalmology, will allow detecting colon cancer in seconds and with absolute accuracy.

13.12.2019
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Chip Neuron

A team of scientists from the University of Bath has developed an electronic device that, according to the developers, copies the behavior of neurons.

12.12.2019
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Up to a single cell

The ConvPath method classifies different types of cells in a tumor and evaluates their spatial distribution.

11.12.2019
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When we become cyborgs

What are neurointerfaces made of, how are they used in medicine and is it possible to transplant a human brain into a cybernetic body?

11.12.2019
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Snack on lactobacilli

Lactobacilli, which are part of probiotics and fermented milk products, restore the liver in case of damage caused by alcohol.

10.12.2019
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Study of Alzheimer's disease (2)

Biologist Evgeny Rogaev – about the history of studying Alzheimer's disease, the genes and mutations responsible for it, and attempts to find ways to treat it.

10.12.2019