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Sick humanity

Only 5% of the world's population is healthy, and about a third of us suffer from five or more diseases at the same time, which indicates the need for a complete reformatting of the healthcare system.

09.06.2015
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The technique of head transplantation has been worked out on mice

Surgeon Xiaoping Ren from Harbin Medical University is conducting experiments on head transplantation. Now the professor is operating on mice, this summer he plans to switch to monkeys and admits the possibility of such an operation for humans.

08.06.2015
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Drainage for the brain

The lymphatic system still has its own representation in the brain: the sinuses of the meninges turned out to be very similar to its vessels, they have immune cells and they are connected to the cervical lymph nodes.

03.06.2015
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Is Staphylococcus the cause of diabetes?

Type 2 diabetes can develop in humans not because of some internal processes, but because of chronic infection of the skin with colonies of Staphylococcus aureus.

03.06.2015
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Mice cured of retrograde amnesia

A new study has helped resolve a long-standing dispute about the nature of memory: retrograde amnesia is caused not by irreparable damage to brain cells, but only by blocking access to intact memory.

02.06.2015
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Another target for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy

In addition to the already known vascular growth factor, another signaling protein, angiopoietin–4, is involved in the destruction of the retina in diabetes, which is also involved in the appearance of new vessels, and that their blocking successfully prevents the growth of defective capillaries.

29.05.2015
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A useful side effect of Neupogen

The drug, which has been used for a long time to relieve the side effects of chemotherapy, was allowed to be used in the United States to eliminate the consequences of radiation exposure during nuclear disasters.

28.05.2015
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Alzheimer's Disease Prevention Experiment

American scientists have announced the launch of a project during which they will analyze the effect of an experimental drug against Alzheimer's disease with the participation of people at risk, but without symptoms of the disease.

27.05.2015
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Doshirak chromosomes

The Lomonosov supercomputer helped researchers from Moscow State University solve one of the main mysteries of molecular biology and show the benefits of DNA stacking according to the "doshirak" principle.

25.05.2015
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Nematodes do not lose their memory after freezing

The use of cryonic technologies does not destroy the long-term memory of the simplest multicellular organisms. Nematode worms Caenorhabditis elegans were used as experimental subjects.

25.05.2015
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GDF-11 out of trust

Another molecular "rejuvenating apple" is in no hurry to meet expectations – the same protein, tissue differentiation factor 11 (GDF-11), in different experiments can both promote muscle regeneration and suppress it.

22.05.2015
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A video about the work of killers

A unique video demonstrates the process of destroying tumor cells by specialized immune cells known as T-killers, or cytotoxic T-lymphocytes.

22.05.2015
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We divide the mitochondria fairly

During division, the stem cell transfers newer (i.e. "healthy") mitochondria to the daughter cell that will remain stem. The second cell, which will follow the path of specialization, will not be too active, and it gets older mitochondria.

21.05.2015
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Nerves for a cyborg

The GalvaniBionix team, consisting of students and postgraduates of MIPT, headed by Timur Bergaliev, set themselves the task of facilitating the process of mutual adaptation, making it as simple and fast as possible.

19.05.2015