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The brain-computer interface is being improved

Engineers from Stanford University have created a new algorithm for decoding the electrical activity of the brain, which has doubled the efficiency of the machine-brain interface.

20.11.2012
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The hormone of monogamy

Researchers are sure that from now on oxytocin can be considered a hormone of monogamy and marital fidelity.

19.11.2012
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Therapeutic parasites

The results of another study showed the possibility of therapeutic use of microscopic parasitic worm to normalize the composition of intestinal microflora in chronic inflammatory bowel diseases.

19.11.2012
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Contagious Parkinson's disease

The assumption that Parkinson's disease can be transmitted from neuron to neuron using the wrong spatial conformation of the alpha-synuclein protein was confirmed in healthy wild-type mice.

19.11.2012
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Histones against bacteria

Biologists from the University of California at Irvine have found that histone proteins, whose main function is the packaging of DNA in the nucleus of the cell, are able to suppress the vital activity of intracellular bacteria.

15.11.2012
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Appoptosin is a killer of neurons

The protein appoptosin may become a target of new drugs for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic brain injuries.

12.11.2012
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Lungs-on-a-chip will replace guinea pigs

Scientists from the Wyss Institute of Bioengineering are striving to ensure that the organ-on-a–chip models they have developed – the heart, intestines, kidneys and lungs - could gradually become a replacement for animal drug testing.

09.11.2012
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Is a little radiation useful?

Despite the fact that the mice used in the experiment had a genetic anomaly, low doses of radiation can also be useful for humans.

09.11.2012
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Encapsulated probiotics will make yogurts healthier

Many probiotic bacteria added to foods such as yogurt are unable to reach the intestines. Most of them die in the stomach. Maybe it's worth trying to use a protective coating?

08.11.2012
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Live 120 years!

In the UK, some insurance companies have started to prepare pension programs based on the expectation that the client can live up to 120-125 years.

07.11.2012
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What prevents embryonic stem cells from differentiating?

Scientists from the Carnegie Institute have uncovered a mechanism integrating signaling pathways involved in the process of self–renewal of embryonic stem cells, and found a key link in this process - the Utf1 protein.

02.11.2012
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Cancer stem cells: new data

Three independent groups of researchers for the first time traced the fate of individual tumor cells in the organisms of laboratory mice and received new evidence of the existence of cancer stem cells.

01.11.2012
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Stem Cell Bodyguards

A rare and previously unknown subgroup of immune cells – macrophages – maintains the "eternally young" state of hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow, preventing their differentiation.

29.10.2012
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A new target for drugs against Parkinson's disease

The mutation responsible for the development of both familial and sporadic cases of Parkinson's disease causes deformation of the membrane surrounding the nuclei of brain stem cells. "In vitro" the normal function of mutant cells has already been restored.

24.10.2012
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Regeneration in mammals: new data

Scientists have described the process of regeneration of the rat bladder, the essence of which is the alternate proliferation of cells of different types.

18.10.2012