News

News

Hormonal contraceptives increase the likelihood of stroke

The use of hormonal contraceptives doubles the risk of stroke in young women. The risk increases significantly if a woman smokes, suffers from migraines or has high blood pressure.

05.11.2009

News

Drunk and smart – two lands in the genes

Genome features predisposing to binge drinking do not always increase the risk of developing alcohol dependence.

03.11.2009

News

Fast food is a drug

A high-calorie, fat-rich diet causes a progressive decrease in the sensitivity of pleasure centers in the brain of rats. Similar processes occur with the development of drug addiction.

02.11.2009

News

Genes and candidiasis

The revealed connection between certain genes and the body's ability to resist pathogenic fungi will allow in the future to develop alternative methods of treating candidiasis and other fungal infections.

02.11.2009

News

"Smart" microcapsules will cure cancer and repair plastic

Microcapsules that break down under the influence of light can be used not only in the development of new methods for the treatment of cancerous tumors.

02.11.2009

News

Time Receptors

"Time receptors" – special groups of neurons responsible for the perception of time, discovered in the primate brain after many years of research.

02.11.2009

News

Will dietary supplements be kicked out of the media?

The main danger of advertising dietary supplements is that sellers position them as a medicine. "Scammers make money on the grief and credulity of citizens," the author of the bill notes.

29.10.2009

News

The alcoholic brain

The nerve cells of alcoholic monkeys recovered 7 times worse than those of their non-drinking neighbors. And if you consider that excessive alcohol consumption also causes degeneration of existing neurons...

29.10.2009

News

Cell therapy without cells

Myocardial regeneration during cell therapy is stimulated by endothelial vascular growth factor secreted by stem cells. This discovery makes it possible to use individual growth factors, primarily VEGF, for treatment.

28.10.2009

News

The recipe for a heart attack: stuff stem cells with magnetic nanoparticles...

In animal experiments, scientists were able to achieve a 5 times higher concentration of stem cells at the site of the lesion than in the control, when cells without magnetic nanoparticles were transplanted.

27.10.2009

News

Reprogrammed cells: a record of productivity and precocity

The new method gives a more than two-hundredfold increase in the efficiency of reprogramming and a reduction in the period to two weeks compared to the "old" methods using four transcription factors.

27.10.2009

News

Gene therapy saves from blindness

In patients with Leber's amaurosis, complete blindness develops by the age of forty. Gene therapy has proved particularly effective in the treatment of children who still have enough intact retinal tissue.

26.10.2009

News

Useless healthcare

The American healthcare system uselessly spends about a third of its budget. Due to fraud alone, it loses up to $200 billion. per year.

26.10.2009

News

Suspended sentence for unconditional falsification

The court found Hwang Woo Suk, convicted in 2006 of falsifying the results of stem cell cloning experiments, guilty of embezzlement of budget funds and sentenced him to three years of probation.

26.10.2009

News

The "peydodna" gene

Changes in the gene responsible for the enzyme ME1 can increase the body's tolerance of alcohol. In any case, fruit flies with certain single changes in the genome get drunk later than less successful winged wares.

23.10.2009

News

Do you want to become a co-investor of Rusnano?

Rusnano's approach makes it possible to make infrastructure projects cost–effective, therefore attractive to co-investors.

22.10.2009

News

Cell therapy of chronic heart failure

For cell therapy, scientists used cardiomyocyte progenitor cells obtained as a result of differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells from the bone marrow of 46 patients.

20.10.2009

News

Cutlets with meat taste identical to natural

The developers hope that in the near future "powdered" cutlets-semi-finished products, sausages and even minced meat will appear on the shelves of the capital's stores.

20.10.2009

News

Telomeres are being restored!

According to the authors, this was such a confusing observation that they had to repeat the experiments several more times until they were finally convinced of the ability of telomeres to recover.

19.10.2009

News

Gene delivery to stem cells: nanoparticles instead of viral vectors?

Nanoparticles as a means of delivering additional genes may prove to be an effective means to improve the results of cell therapy.

19.10.2009