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Put lenses in your eyes!

The release of the drug with new lenses can last up to a hundred days. During the tests, the lenses provided an effective concentration of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin throughout this period.

23.07.2009
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The fight against aging: a new approach to an old problem

"Experts have long known that p38MAPK is involved in the development of inflammatory diseases, and clinical trials of pharmacological methods to limit its activity have already begun," notes the lead author of the work D.Bulavin. "Probably, similar methods can be used in the fight against aging."

23.07.2009
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Diabetes and Alzheimer's disease: another link

Scientists have long assumed that there is a connection between type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. Now, after a new role of humanin in glucose metabolism has been discovered, indirect confirmation of this guess has appeared.

23.07.2009
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Mobile Microscope

Scientists from the University of Berkeley (California) suggest using mobile phones as microscopes or "mobiscopes" (CellScope).

23.07.2009
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In vivo visualization: blinking nanostars

The new system can be used to obtain images in medicine and biology. This is due to the fact that "blinking" nanostars provide a very good ratio between the received periodic signal and external noise.

23.07.2009
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How many times have they told the world...

Only four habits are needed for a healthy lifestyle and active longevity – quitting smoking, daily consumption of vegetables and fruits, maintaining an optimal weight and little physical activity. But only 8% of Americans follow these golden rules.

20.07.2009
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The world's oldest man has died at the age of 113

The oldest inhabitant of the planet, one of the three surviving British veterans of the First World War, Briton Henry Allingham (Henry Allingham) died on Saturday at the 114th year of life.

20.07.2009
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Cloned customs officers took up posts

"During the training, these dogs have shown that they can detect drugs better than ordinary bloodhounds," said a customs officer at Incheon Airport, where three of the six bloodhounds were assigned to serve.

20.07.2009
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Alcohol against Alzheimer's: useful, but in moderation and on time

"Most studies of the effect of alcohol on health eventually produce a two–horned curve – that is, the risk is increased for people who do not drink at all and for alcoholics, and for people who drink alcohol moderately, it decreases," comments William Thies, head of the scientific and medical department of the Alzheimer's Association.

15.07.2009
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How the child will grow up, the DNA and EEG analysis will tell

Of those babies who showed increased activity in the frontal cortex of the left hemisphere at 9 months, carriers of the long allele of the dopamine receptor D4 gene grew calm and obedient. However, the same long allele in combination with increased activity in the right hemisphere gave the opposite effect.

14.07.2009
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A small but proud Russian biotechnology

Currently, our country is at the most important stage of making a strategic decision: how to bring the domestic bioindustry from an outsider position in the conditions of the global biotech boom.

10.07.2009
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Antibodies against rabies

Russian scientists have begun developing a technology for obtaining therapeutic antibodies for the treatment of rabies using genetically modified yeast.

09.07.2009
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Sperm from stem cells

British researchers have created a strategy for obtaining in vitro male spermatogenic progenitor cells (germline stem cells - GSCs) from human embryonic stem cells.

08.07.2009
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Glycans as oncosuppressors

Scientists from the Burnham Medical Research Institute have discovered that one of the types of polysaccharides that make up cell membranes can act as oncosuppressors in breast and prostate cancer.

08.07.2009