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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.

Your diet changes the activity of your genes

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The first artificial transposon has been created

Excessive fat intake alters the expression activity of a whole complex of genes, which leads not only to obesity, but also to the development of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Scientists believe that these changes can be predicted using laboratory methods.

If you study well, you will live 7 years longer

From exceeding the dosage of Viagra, the world can turn blue!

Women who quit smoking are getting younger and losing weight

"Jumping genes" of monkeys suggested a new way to treat HIV infection

An international team of scientists has identified a combination of genes that prevent infection of monkeys with retroviruses.

Folic acid improves sperm quality

One of the essential problems of logic elements based on ribozymes, enzymes or optical materials is the different nature of the incoming and outgoing signal, unlike electronic systems that use a common input and output signal (electron). American researchers have tried to work around this problem by constructing logic gates based on DNA.

Need a new antibiotic? Set the bacteria against each other!

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Florida have proposed a new method for creating antibiotics, which consists in "inciting" one type of bacteria against another.

The retina can be stimulated to self-regeneration

Organ Regeneration: Disable miR-133 microRNA

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The first customers of individual genomes

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Ecstasy vaccination

Cold-resistant mice with "bird" muscles

Male infertility can be transmitted through the maternal line

Transgenic mice, insensitive to cold, use the mechanism of heat production in muscles typical of birds, not mammals.

Bile acids instead of vitamin D

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Soy 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.

Anxiety 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.

New target of anti-cancer therapy: pyruvate kinase PKM2

Scientists have isolated an enzyme that gives cancer cells the ability to consume huge amounts of glucose.