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Atherosclerosis: another target for preventive drugs

As shown by researchers from the USA and Sweden, the key substance in the prevention of atherosclerosis of the arteries is an inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinase 2B. This fact will allow us to develop fundamentally new pharmacological agents for the prevention of cardiovascular pathology.

24.03.2014
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A peptide in an hour

MIT scientists have adapted the synthesis reactions of short (from 30-40 amino acids) proteins in such a way that the entire peptide can be assembled not in a few weeks, but in a little more than an hour.

21.03.2014
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Three-dimensional printing in medicine

Many people say that three-dimensional printing will radically change our lives, allowing people to create the things they need in everyday life. Perhaps this is still a long way off, but in one area 3D technologies have definitely made a revolution - in medicine.

21.03.2014
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Chocolate without bacteria is a waste of money

Intestinal bacteria break down the polyphenols contained in chocolate to smaller and easily absorbed molecules with anti-inflammatory properties, which have a beneficial effect on the heart and blood vessels.

21.03.2014
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Watson continues to investigate

Twenty patients suffering from an aggressive form of brain cancer will soon have another member of the medical team serving them. In this role, the artificial intelligence of the famous Watson supercomputer will act.

21.03.2014
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How to restore aging immunity

Inactivation of the Cbl-b protein restores the capacity of aging natural killers, which begin to perform their functions more effectively and actively suppress tumor metastasis.

20.03.2014
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N-acetylglucosamine against neurodegeneration

The natural metabolite N-acetylglucosamine promotes the elimination of toxic protein aggregates associated with neurodegenerative diseases from the body of nematodes and increases their life expectancy. In human cells, this compound is also synthesized, and maybe…

17.03.2014
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Live biosensors for medicine and pharmacology

A universal mouse model, each cell of which expresses a fluorescent "biosensor", allows you to observe diseased cells and drugs injected into the body in real time in three dimensions.

14.03.2014
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Gemini in Space

NASA plans to send one of the identical twins to the ISS in order to fully assess the impact of space flight on the human body at the molecular, physiological and psychological level.

12.03.2014
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How to see small biomolecules in a living cell

Scientists from Columbia University have developed a technology for monitoring the movement of low-molecular substances in cells, whose size does not allow the use of conventional fluorescent labels.

03.03.2014
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In situ RNA sequencing

Biologists led by renowned geneticist George Church have created a method of in situ RNA sequencing ("on the spot"), which allows you to map the expression of thousands of genes on a scale from the subcellular level to the whole brain or embryo.

03.03.2014
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Death Test

Estonian and Finnish doctors have learned to find out from a blood test whether a person will die in the next five years or not. But experts cannot yet say from which disease he will die, and it is not very clear what to do with such information.

27.02.2014
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The main thing is that the suit should sit

A woman paralyzed from the waist down was able to give up a wheelchair and take an independent walk thanks to a robotic exoskeleton, created for the first time by individual measurements on a 3-D printer.

26.02.2014