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Another benefit of hormone replacement therapy
Hormone therapy during menopause reduces the risk of bowel cancer.
11.01.2009- English version
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Dietary supplements for weight loss: the FDA warns!
The FDA has found dozens of dangerous dietary supplements for weight loss. Counterfeit dietary supplements were sold in web pharmacies under the guise of "herbal remedies for fat burning".
26.12.2008
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Cousinship is not such a dangerous property?
The risk of having a child with genetic defects in a marriage between cousins is no higher than that of a woman over the age of forty.
25.12.2008
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The man-eating Ford drove on human fat
A beautician from Beverly Hills processed the fat he removed from his patients into biofuels, and refueled his Ford and his girlfriend's Lincoln with it.
25.12.2008
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Prevention of the consequences of smoking
CDDO-imidazole effectively prevented respiratory tract damage in "smoking" mice. The results obtained will allow us to begin studying the effectiveness and safety of its use for the prevention of lung diseases in humans.
24.12.2008
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Chubais and Matvienko signed a cooperation agreement
One of the first practical examples of the implementation of the Agreement will be RUSNANO's participation in the work of the information and consulting center for innovative companies, which opens on December 25 in St. Petersburg.
23.12.2008
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A slight fright for the sale of anabolic steroids
The organizers of the online store of banned steroids received long (from 6 to 7 years), but suspended sentences.
23.12.2008
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Breakthrough in the treatment of congenital brain defects
Israeli scientists have managed to cure congenital brain defects in laboratory mice by implanting reprogrammed stem cells into the damaged brain.
22.12.2008
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Will dipeptides help with Alzheimer's disease?
Israeli researchers report that the dipeptide they developed increases the cognitive ability of mice with an analog of human Alzheimer's disease, and reduces the number of amyloid plaques in their brains.
19.12.2008
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$25,000,000 for stem cells
The Eli and Edith Broad Foundation has donated $25 million to the University of California, San Francisco to create a new stem cell research center.
19.12.2008
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Biologists studying RNA were obliged to write articles for Wikipedia
The requirement to publish their data online will apply only to authors who are going to be published in one of the sections of the journal RNA Biology devoted to the description of families of RNA molecules.
18.12.2008
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Nanotubes detect carcinogens in living cells
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed nanosensors that allow detecting single molecules of substances that damage DNA in living cells.
18.12.2008
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Gene activity glows in the eyes
In genetically modified fruit flies, the gene of interest to researchers is linked to the fluorescent protein gene so that they are expressed simultaneously and in equal amounts. This allows you to observe the work of genes in real time and on a freely moving animal.
17.12.2008
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Paper biochips
A prototype of a laboratory microchip for biological and medical research, in the manufacture of which pressed paper is used instead of complex and expensive microswitches and pumps, costs only three cents.
17.12.2008
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Lost memory, but unforgettable
Henri Molaison, the patient, largely thanks to whom science has established the brain structures responsible for memorization and learning, has died at the age of 82.
17.12.2008
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Fingerprints: not only forensics, but also diagnostics
In cancer, diabetes, heart disease and many other diseases, the chemical composition of sweat changes. Antibodies can detect substances specific to each of the diseases in fingerprints.
16.12.2008
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The "supermuscles" gene
The FHL1 gene is an excellent tool for gene therapy of acquired myodystrophy, but with congenital ones, when defects of other genes, such as dystrophin, are at the heart of muscle failure, the suitability of FHL1 remains to be determined.
16.12.2008
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Bones for injection
Injectable bones represent the first complete delivery system of stem cells, chemical solution and growth hormone to create a material capable of replacing natural bones
16.12.2008
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10 main scientific events of 2008
In third place, after the Large Hadron Collider and the Phoenix rover, is the world's first artificial chromosome, created by American geneticist Craig Venter and his colleagues.
16.12.2008