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Cancer immunotherapy is the main breakthrough of the year according to Science

Cancer immunotherapy, a therapeutic approach that turns a patient's immune cells into malignant tumor killers, was included (along with five other areas of life sciences) in the list of breakthroughs of 2013 according to the American journal Science.

20.12.2013

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Scientists who changed the world in the past year

Of the ten scientists whose research and actions played a crucial role in the development of world science in 2013 (according to the journal Nature), exactly half are engaged in life sciences.

19.12.2013

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For breakthroughs in the sciences!

On December 12, the winners of the scientific prize for "Breakthrough in Fundamental Physics and in the Life Sciences" were awarded in Silicon Valley.

16.12.2013

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The Nobel Prize Ceremony

On December 10, the day of memory of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish and Norwegian capitals hosted the next ceremony of awarding the most prestigious prize in the scientific world, bearing his name.

11.12.2013

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FDA vs. 23andMe

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ordered 23andMe to stop selling home-made genetic tests until they pass FDA licensing.

26.11.2013

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Eternal life for the eternal president

According to his former personal doctor, the aging Great Leader of North Korea, Kim Il Sung, was obsessed with the idea of immortality.

22.11.2013

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Dear ladies! If you don't want to look younger…

...then you can look pretty much older than your years if you use simple and effective methods, which we will tell you about now.

21.11.2013

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Which is stronger: bad genes or good parenting?

After years of research into the brains of psychopathic killers, neuroscientist J. Fallon accidentally discovered that his brain looks exactly like the brains of cold-blooded murderers. And after analyzing his DNA, he found out that he has several genes that are very strongly associated with violent psychopathic behavior.

14.11.2013

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A five-hundred-year-old centenarian died as a result of an autopsy

"We incorrectly determined the age for the first time, and maybe we were a little hasty with the publication of our data… But now we are absolutely sure that we have determined the age correctly," said the head of the research team.

14.11.2013

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Philippines: the fashion for stem rejuvenation

The elderly Filipino elite is actively rejuvenated by stem cells, including those obtained from sheep embryos. The poor are offered cheap, but clearly quack methods of "cell therapy".

08.11.2013

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In the case of genomic registration, a switchman was found

The only one who can be punished for the purchase of useless sets by the state for 80 million rubles is actually an official of the Federal Penitentiary Service.

01.11.2013

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Support biomedicine!

The possibilities of biomedicine, including personalized medicine, problems and prospects of its development in Russia were discussed by the participants of the round table "Support for biomedicine today – a breakthrough in healthcare tomorrow".

29.10.2013

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They lived happily ever after

Pensioners, having received a lifetime annuity in exchange for a bequest of an apartment, deceived the expectations of businessmen: their life expectancy turned out to be much longer than the estimated one.

24.10.2013

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Two extra years of life for 143 million

If new medicines received faster access to the market and were more accessible to the population, then the average life expectancy in Russia could increase by 2.1 years.

21.10.2013

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Life without old age

A presentation of the book "Life without Old Age" by biochemist, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Skulachev took place in Moscow.

16.10.2013

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Palliative care in Russia

Palliative care specialist Anna Sonkina – about the problems associated with providing care to incurable patients in Russia.

16.10.2013

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Another pension calculator: if you want, reap...

This formula does not increase the wealth of pensioners and makes the calculation even less transparent. And no one guarantees that officials in a couple of years will not want to change this calculation option to something even more abstract.…

15.10.2013

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It is more profitable to treat aging, not senile ailments

Unlike the treatment of age-related diseases, slowing down aging will not bring immediate results, but in the long term it will achieve a lot.

11.10.2013

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Nobel Prize Laureates in Physiology and Medicine named

The winners of the award were James Rothman, Randy Sheckman and Thomas Sudhof "for discoveries in the field of regulation of vesicular transport in cells".

07.10.2013

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Eurasian Congress "Stem Cell Transplantation"

The congress in Minsk, attended by almost 300 leading specialists from more than 20 countries, is timed to the 20th anniversary of the first bone marrow transplantation in Belarus.

27.09.2013