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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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Decent aging: abroad will help you

The total budget of the project is more than a million euros, which were collected by ordinary citizens of Denmark. The money is planned to be spent on helping elderly people who need medicines, clothes, food and other vital things.

22.07.2015
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Grandma, you're pregnant!

A hundred-year-old British woman Doris Ayling from the city of Fareham received a letter from the city hospital informing the woman about the pregnancy.

21.07.2015
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Getting fat by leaps and bounds

The prevalence of obesity in the Krasnoyarsk Territory has been growing for 5 years and now averages 10 cases per 1000 people.

21.07.2015
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Learn "-omics"!

The educational program "Omix data: Acquisition and use in Medical Applications", developed by order of the Rusnano Foundation for Infrastructure and Educational Programs in cooperation with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, has started today.

20.07.2015
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Bounty hunters of biotechnologists and bioinformatics

The new Internet resource "Blastim" publishes vacancies in biotechnological companies and scientific organizations engaged in bioinformatics and "wet" biology and many other useful information.

16.07.2015
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Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are life-threatening

The risk group (with an increase from 10 to 50% depending on the dose) most often includes patients suffering from problems with the cardiovascular system, but even in healthy people taking medications increases the risk of stroke and heart attack.

15.07.2015
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Pharmacogenetics has reached Yakutia

The program being developed at NEFU will automatically issue conclusions based on the entered results of pharmacogenetic testing of 21 drugs of 11 pharmacological groups.

14.07.2015
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Criminal Vaccine

In the United States, a court sentenced a scientist who falsified the results of research on the development of an HIV vaccine, for which millions of dollars were spent.

02.07.2015
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Maybe Platonov 's own…

Kazan scientists are planning to start clinical trials of a new antibiotic of the fluoroquinolone group, 800 times less toxic than similar drugs, and hope that after 2020 the drug will enter the market.

01.07.2015
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Non-allergenic poplars

Valentina Obodovskaya, a biologist from the Kazakh city of Kustanai, obtained a selection poplar that does not form fluff by selection.

30.06.2015
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Microflora as a marker of intestinal cancer

Scientists from the University of Minnesota have discovered two pathogenic strains of bacteria of the genus Providencia, the presence of which in the intestinal microflora is a marker of the disease.

26.06.2015
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Ovtemedusa – a new word of French cuisine

A genetically modified sheep from the experimental herd of the French Institute of Agronomic Research was sent to the slaughterhouse along with "ordinary" animals and may have ended up in the French food network.

25.06.2015