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Atherosclerosis and diabetes – payment for resistance to cold?

The fight against aging is a large—scale task and is beyond the power of any one scientific group. In terms of complexity, it is comparable to S.P. Korolev's project to launch the first satellite or the "world project" to decode the human genome. Hundreds of laboratories, including the US National Institute of Aging, are struggling to solve this problem in the world. To date, there are more than 300 scientific theories of aging.

Hemophilia can be cured by endothelial cell transplantation

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Robots will replace laboratory animals

otik," it says, "but yoghurts have nothing to do with it."

A register of bone marrow donors is being created in St. Petersburg

CDH13 is a marker of recurrent prostate cancer

the largest distributed computing programs – for example, in the BOINC network with a convenient, including Russian, interface.

Rituximab slows down the development of multiple sclerosis

"Interferon" mice are not afraid of viruses

How to make the body transparent

Gene therapy against HIV/AIDS success inspires

The technique developed by scientists at the California Institute of Technology was called "opacity suppression by optical reversal of the wavefront" (turbidity suppression by optical phase conjugation, TSOPC).

The immune system from embryonic stem cells

an acceptable alternative.

Fish, I see right through you!

The program "Molecular cell biology" extended life for another year

Humanity has come to a turning point in its history. It will either find a way to survive in a world that will be changed by global warming and the robotoom, or it will plunge into the era of obscurantism, says English futurist James Martin.

A dead pit bull is being cloned in Korea

In the USA, 5,000 liver transplants are performed every year, in Russia – only 100.

"Leaking" muscle cells are the cause of physical exhaustion

Almost every person at least once in their life had to take any medications three times a day every day for, say, two weeks. And someone has to swallow such funds almost all his life, and at night too. For these people, as well as for those who constantly forget to take a pill on time, scientists have come up with an artificial tooth dispenser.

ESMO's Guide to Cancer Prevention is on sale soon!

The physical exhaustion experienced by marathon runners and other athletes at the end of grueling competitions or hours of daily training is caused by tiny "holes" that let calcium ions into the muscle cells. The same mechanism is involved in myocardial disorders in patients with chronic heart failure.

New HIV target identified

A common mutation shortens the life of smokers

The protein integrin-alpha-4-beta-7 (integrin alpha 4 beta 7), involved in attracting immune cells of T-lymphocytes into the intestine, is an important target for the human immunodeficiency virus entering the body at the first stages of the disease.

Cancer cure found in "mermaid hair"

A chemical compound with pronounced anti-cancer properties was isolated by American scientists from blue-green algae known as "mermaid hair".

A 120-year-old centenarian or an official's mistake?