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DNA transistors

Anatoly Sokolov, an employee of Stanford University, together with fellow physicists, developed a method for producing carbon transistors based on DNA strands.

09.09.2013
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You can lose weight with the help of bacteria...

...with one condition: microorganisms that contribute to thinness are able to displace less useful fellows only if a healthy and not excessively high-calorie diet is observed.

06.09.2013
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Alpha-synuclein rehabilitation?

It is generally accepted that Parkinson's disease is complicated by phosphorylation of the alpha-synuclein protein. Swiss neurophysiologists have managed to show that in fact this process protects the body from the progression of the disease.

03.09.2013
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Diabetes and memory: new data

In patients with diabetes mellitus, the enzyme metalloproteinase-9 is activated, which reduces the production of neuroprotective substances and degeneration of the blood vessels of the brain develops.

30.08.2013
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Obesity is not dangerous for everyone

Obesity is closely associated with disorders such as metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, but with a "healthy" profile of inflammatory markers, even in overweight people, the risk of developing these pathologies is minimal.

30.08.2013
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Electronic telepathy

Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a non–invasive interface that allows one person to control the (so far - uncomplicated) movements of another via the Internet.

29.08.2013
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Stress, cancer and immunity

A cancerous tumor metastasizes more actively when the ATF3 stress gene in immune cells is activated, causing the death of macrophages.

26.08.2013
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Damaged, sick and old muscles will be restored by Pax7

Understanding how the Pax7 protein works will help make satellite cells as active as possible. This may lead to a revolution in the treatment of muscular dystrophy and, perhaps, will preserve muscle strength in old age.

26.08.2013
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Cancer node

The activity of cancer mRNAs depends on the mutual work of two proteins that untangle loops and knots on the regulatory site of such mRNAs and enable the ribosome to begin synthesis of the cancer protein on it.

22.08.2013
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The cause of pain is not inflammation, but bacteria

Scientists have revised the view of the source of pain in infectious tissue damage. Pain neurons are affected not by inflammation, but by multiplying bacteria. In addition, it turned out that pain does not stimulate, but suppresses the immune response.

22.08.2013
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Legalize psychedelics?

Statistical analysis shows that the use of LSD, psilocybin and similar substances does not cause dependence and does not cause long-term damage to the psyche.

21.08.2013
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Celebrity Photos for Dementia Diagnosis

Patients with atrophy of both temporal regions are worse at recognizing a person, and patients with atrophy of the left temporal region recognize a person, but have difficulty remembering his name.

15.08.2013
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New data on the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis-causing white blood cells macrophages replicate inside plaques. Moreover, this growth does not depend on cells outside the plaques – monocytes – as previously assumed.

14.08.2013
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Do you sleep well?

A thin sensor of the Beddit sleep quality monitoring system, located under the sheet, allows you to analyze indicators such as falling asleep time, sleep duration, heart rate, etc.

13.08.2013
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A blood clot after a stroke will be removed by a robot

Researchers from Vanderbilt University have developed a robotic surgical system that allows for the effective and minimally traumatic removal of blood clots from the brain formed as a result of a stroke.

13.08.2013
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Cage Hunting: "beaters" and "numbers"

Chimeric molecules made of DNA and antibodies can recognize cells more accurately if, instead of one such molecular robot, several are sent to hunt for a cell at once.

12.08.2013
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Running from dementia

After training on the "squirrel wheel" in mice with a model of a severe hereditary disease leading, among other things, to dementia, mutant neurons fully recovered and began to create functional networks.

12.07.2013
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The system needs to be changed!

New research, especially in genomics, provides a huge amount of information that modern databases cannot process. Therefore, it is necessary to think about creating a fundamentally new global information system.

10.07.2013