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Life expectancy in Russia: horror-horror-horror :(

Russia was in the penultimate place among the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in terms of life expectancy, according to the WHO report.

The island of centenarians is not Okinawa, but Manhattan

The life expectancy of Manhattan residents is 82 years, New Yorkers – 80.6 years. The average life expectancy in the country is three years less.

For the safety of cellular technologies

Legal regulation in the field of biomedical cell technologies in Russia is not systemic and has significant gaps.

The "artificial cell" does not only know how to reproduce

the eyes focus and refract light.

The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation is also against the violation of the human dignity of embryos

The Deputy Minister of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation approves the decision of the EU Court to ban patents for manipulations with embryonic stem cells.

Stem cells against viral hepatitis

The aim of phase II clinical trials is to evaluate the effectiveness of the allogeneic mesenchymal bone marrow stem cell transplantation technique in patients with hepatic insufficiency caused by the hepatitis B virus.

Don't confuse old people with thoughts!

Neurologists from the University of California explained why with age the human brain loses the ability to work in multitasking mode.

The third Nobel Prize in Skolkovo

Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Lehn joined the Advisory Scientific Council of the Skolkovo Foundation.

The shape of tomatoes is determined by the SUN gene

If prostate cancer does not give up, it is destroyed by blocking the Stat5 gene

Homozygous mutants of the second generation lived ten times longer than ordinary C.elegans, but they were sterile. Maybe it is possible to somehow compensate for the infertility associated with the age-1 gene and leave only a long life? A number of data points to the fact that it is impossible – at least in one action.

Will mice teach cows to milk cream?

Experiments with transgenic mice that have begun in the USA should help to find out what affects the fat content of milk.

Is amyloid oligomers the cause of Alzheimer's disease?

Another confirmation that Alzheimer's disease is caused by beta-amyloid oligomers, and not the infamous amyloid plaques.

Breast cancer risk: Is genetic testing useless?

The assessment of the probability of developing breast cancer based on long-known factors turned out to be correct in 58% of cases. The addition of the ten most common genetic risk factors to the model increased the accuracy of the forecast by less than 4%.

VEB will finance the construction of a pharmaceutical plant

The Bank participates in the financing of a project in the pharmaceutical industry. Medical equipment and pharmaceuticals were included in the list of industry priorities of the Bank's investment activities at the end of 2009.

The secret of Asian longevity

According to Chinese researchers, their research will help shed light on the phenomenon of "Asian longevity". The results of their colleagues' work also confirm the more frequent occurrence of mitochondrial haplogroup D4 in Japanese over the age of 100 years.

Rusnano-2015: rainbow nanoprospects

Rusnano Group has reached its design capacity and intends to repay debts to the state by 2015. However, according to the expert of IC Finam Alexey Kurasov, by 2015 the Russian nanoindustry will amount to about 1.5% of the world, i.e. there will be no breakthrough.

Stem cells: waste – to income!

Stanford University researchers used adipose tissue as a starting material instead of skin to produce induced pluripotent stem cells, which is now being destroyed after liposuction.

Live Artificial Heart Valves

An artificial heart valve, if it is implanted in a child, is bad, in particular, because its size does not change as the patient grows. In the laboratory of Biotechnology and Artificial Organs of the Hanover Medical School, the operation to transplant a biotechnological heart valve to children of different ages was performed sixteen times.

Analysis for worm eggs and at the same time – for cancer

DNA analysis of patients' stools makes it possible to detect different forms of cancer more accurately than previously thought.

Survivin is the cause of tumor formation during embryonic stem cell therapy

Researchers from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have proposed a method to reduce the risk of developing tumors using embryonic stem cells – suppressing the synthesis of a protein called survivin.