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Pigs will come to the rescue

Scientists believe that even without achieving the ideal xenotransplantation, they will be able to offer their methods for clinical practice.

25.09.2017
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When does size matter?

A new study has shown that the social environment can affect penis size. At least among drakes.

21.09.2017
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A key regulator of male fertility

A molecular "switch" has been discovered that activates the production of male sperm at a certain age.

21.09.2017
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The scale of wisdom

Scientists from San Diego have developed a new scale for measuring the level of wisdom based on the neurobiological and psychological characteristics of a person.

20.09.2017
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Three hundred percent vision

It is quite possible that the bionic lens Bionic Lens of the Canadian Ocumetics Technology Corporation will give its owner super vision.

20.09.2017
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Sex and violence

The neurons involved in the formation of sexual and aggressive behavior in males are woven into one tangle, and in females they are separated into two separate groups.

19.09.2017
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For lack of a stamp…

Whether the fossil species of hominins, in whose bones DNA has decomposed, belong to the ancestors of man, can be understood by analyzing polysaccharides – glycans.

19.09.2017
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Microbes interfere with cancer treatment

Scientists have discovered that the bacteria that often accompany pancreatic cancer allow the tumor to survive by destroying chemotherapy drugs.

15.09.2017
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Again, the microflora is to blame

Two articles in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences linked the initiation of multiple sclerosis with the gut microbiota.

15.09.2017
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Nice correlation

For people who can boast of sexual activity in adulthood and old age, intellectual difficulties are less characteristic.

14.09.2017
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Beta-amyloid in high resolution

A group of German scientists published the structure of the β-amyloid fibrillae – the main component of amyloid plaques – with a resolution of 0.4 nm.

12.09.2017
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Treatment of alcoholism: a new target

Scientists hope that the discovery of the molecular pathway of alcohol addiction formation will allow developing new methods of its treatment.

12.09.2017
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Not a gram of carbohydrates

The cyclic ketogenic diet reduced mortality in mice in middle age and improved cognitive abilities in older animals.

08.09.2017
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Hope for balding

In experiments on mice, two drugs have been tested that stimulate hair growth by correcting the metabolism of hair follicle stem cells.

07.09.2017
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"Obesity Cells"

Problems with feeling full in severe obesity are often caused by a lack of enteroendocrine cells that synthesize the "satiety hormone".

06.09.2017
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Virtual embryo with cellular resolution

Drosophila embryos were disassembled into several thousand individual cells, and then put back together – but already in a computer.

06.09.2017
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Nerve repair can be accelerated

Scientists have found a new key to the process of restoring peripheral nerves by discovering that antisense RNA is expressed when they are damaged.

04.09.2017