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The paradox of Alzheimer's disease sheds light on the mechanisms of memory loss
If a person lives in a happy marriage, his blood pressure is in good condition. But if stress happens in a marriage, they are accompanied by sudden pressure surges.
21.03.2008Soy Genistein Prevents prostate cancer metastasis
Derivatives of one of the bile acids activate vitamin D receptors without causing an increase in the level of calcium in the blood.
18.03.2008Anxiety is the source of female longevity
The problem was to obtain phosphors of a very small size, comparable to the thickness of the cell membrane of a living organism. And Kharkiv residents succeeded – they managed to obtain single crystals with a size of only two nanometers, each of which contains only 100 molecules.
18.03.2008Biomedicine in Skolkovo
The Skolkovo Foundation will invest up to 2 billion rubles in six biomedicine projects.
28.02.2011Arthritis helped to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease will probably be defeated with the help of arthritis. More precisely, a protein that is synthesized in cells with this disease affecting the joints.
24.08.2010You can fight HIV from the inside
Salmonella bacteria can be turned into micro-terminators that penetrate deep into malignant tumors, where traditional chemotherapy drugs cannot penetrate. Once at the destination, the bacteria begin to synthesize compounds that destroy tumor cells.
04.03.2008Electronic nose for intestinal infection
OdoReader analyzes gases evaporated by patient stool samples and detects the presence of Clostridium difficile, the causative agent of a dangerous hospital infection of the gastrointestinal tract.
08.02.2010The passion for cloning
The headlines that appeared in the media on Friday like "The State Duma indefinitely banned human cloning" are somewhat exaggerated.
25.01.2010Diagnosis of trisomies: congratulations to Sequenom sovramshi!
The data of Sequenom's experiments to test the methods of intrauterine diagnosis of Down syndrome and other trisomies by analyzing the mother's blood were invalidated, work on it was temporarily suspended.
15.10.2009Russian pharmaceutical industry will be treated in clusters
Zelenograd Technopark for pharmaceutical companies became the third, the creation of which was announced over the past month: earlier, the authorities of St. Petersburg and Yaroslavl reported on the creation of clusters for the pharmaceutical industry.
12.10.2009Prosaposin against metastases
The use of prosaposin will not eliminate the causes of cancer and will not prevent the appearance of tumors, but the development of metastases may be blocked.
24.06.2009While the fat dries...
Good news for fat people: people who are overweight at the age of 40 live on average longer than their slimmer fellow citizens.
22.06.2009An exciting video from the life of synapses
Researchers from the University of California at Davis demonstrated the critical role of the neuroligin protein in the formation of synapses and filmed this process on video.
19.06.2009Alfa-Capital will be engaged in venture and direct investments
The priority sectors for investing funds are those that will develop most dynamically after the end of the economic crisis and bring the highest possible return on invested capital. Among such industries, the experts of the Alfa-Capital Management Company identified information technologies, biotechnologies, energy and nanotechnology.
28.05.2009Hypertension genes
Each of the detected genetic differences is very common in the world, but causes minor fluctuations in pressure. It is the combination of several genes that leads to the development of hypertension.
13.05.2009Growing artificial organs: sheep instead of bioreactors
Scientist Yutaka Hanazono shows a journalist a sheep involved in the experiment. There is a small trace of the operation on her belly, and behind it is a "spare" pancreas grown on the basis of chimpanzee stem cells.
05.05.2009