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Will you make such a sacrifice?

For six months, the subjects who ate 60% of the normal portion began to weigh half as much. But they have increased the density and length of their hair.

13.09.2017
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Pork for transplantologists

A major supplier of packaged meat products and pork producer in the United States plans to decellularize pork organs and sell them to medical institutions.

18.04.2017
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Welfare concerns

The non-state pension Fund "WELFARE" and the Government of the Moscow region will create a network of rehabilitation centers for the elderly in the Moscow region.

17.06.2016
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Mitosis under control: new details

The discovery of a biochemical pathway called "mitosis control factor-2" raises more questions than it provides answers, because so far a lot is unknown about how the components of the mitosis control mechanism interact with each other and how an exceptionally high accuracy of chromosome separation is achieved.

16.07.2008
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Life expectancy in the European Union

The shortest life expectancy of men was recorded in Lithuania – 68.5 years, the longest – in Italy (80.3 years). Women live the least in Bulgaria (78.6 years), the longest in Spain (86.1 years).

22.07.2015
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At your age, Grandfather, it is harmful to lack of sleep!

In elderly people, lack of sleep can aggravate already, as a rule, impaired protective reactions to abnormal folding of protein molecules, the frequency of which increases as the cell ages. The accumulation and aggregation of abnormal proteins in the cell is associated with many diseases, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

30.06.2008
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DNA analysis accurate to the area

Scientists of the Tomsk Research Institute of Medical Genetics have developed a technology that allows you to calculate a person's place of birth from a sample of his DNA.

16.02.2015
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DNA and the brain (In search of genes for mental illness)

One of the hottest areas of research today is genetics in psychiatry. James Watson, who will come to Moscow at the invitation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, will tell about how DNA works in the holy of holies of our body – in the brain, how genes affect the formation of schizophrenia, autism and other mental disorders.

18.06.2008
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Two Ebola vaccines ready for trial

From the beginning of November, clinical trials of two of the most promising vaccines against the Ebola virus will begin in Switzerland.

22.10.2014
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Rusnano will save Americans from alcohol poisoning

The financing attracted by the American company Aldea Pharmaceuticals will go to the organization of clinical trials of the drug AD-6626, designed to help patients with acute alcohol intoxication.

04.09.2014
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Cytomegalovirus vaccine helps in the treatment of glioblastoma

cytomegalovirus is registered in the blood and in the tumor tissue in more than 80% of patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma. Duke University scientists have suggested that vaccinating patients against cytomegalovirus may help in the fight against the tumor.

30.05.2008
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The discovery was taken for inspection

A Japanese scientist, whose recent research in the field of stem cell research was called revolutionary, announced the need to withdraw the results of his scientific research due to doubts about their accuracy.

11.03.2014
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Patient, it's time for you to die!

In the Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal, a rheumatologist at one of the English clinics described a curious case that occurred in his department in April of this year.

16.12.2013
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907 candidates

According to a report by the Association of Researchers and Manufacturers of Pharmaceutical Products of the USA, American pharmaceutical companies have 907 drugs and vaccines in development for the treatment of more than 100 diseases.

13.03.2013