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Computer games - a cure for insanity

At the end of the experiment, it turned out that elderly people who regularly played a strategic computer game switched from one task to another much better and faster and operated with data and stored information in memory. The logical thinking skills of the "players" were also higher.

15.12.2008
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Drug advertising: side effects are inevitable

The British Consumer Protection Organization does not approve of the EU's permission for pharmaceutical companies to "provide consumers with information" about certain medicines.

12.12.2008
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Monoclonal antibodies against AIDS

The experimental method of AIDS treatment was successfully tested on macaques. The developers hope to start testing the new method on humans next year.

12.12.2008
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See thoughts

The people who participated in the experiment were shown a black-and-white image of geometric shapes and words. Then the information obtained by scanning the activity of the brain department that is responsible for vision was analyzed by a computer and displayed the resulting image on the screen.

11.12.2008
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"Hospital" on a chip can increase survival on the battlefield

The implanted "intelligent first aid kit" will analyze the composition of biological fluids, and in case of changes characteristic of typical wounds (trauma, shock, brain damage or contusion), it will automatically inject the appropriate medication.

11.12.2008
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Smart Shirts

From cotton fabric with electrically conductive nanotubes, it will be possible not only to sew shirts of exotic models with small lights or gloves for controlling touch screens, but also to use "nano-clothing" to detect allergens in the air or blood on the material itself.

11.12.2008
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Alzheimer's disease and herpes: the tasks are clear...

Taking into account the new data, the authors suggested that drugs used to treat herpes can also prevent the development of dementia in Alzheimer's disease. A possible alternative to fighting this disease may be vaccination against the herpes virus.

09.12.2008
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The world's first Korean genome has been decoded

The first Korean genome was sequenced by its "owner", oncologist Kim Seng Jin and his colleagues from Gachen University of Medical Sciences with the support of the Korean Bioinformatics Center.

08.12.2008
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Personal genome in half an hour

The Californian company BioSciences has developed a prototype of a biochip, with the help of which it plans to reach the milestone of "$1,000 per genome" by 2013.

05.12.2008
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Exchange of minds

Researchers have learned to evoke the illusion of being in someone else's body. Depending on the conditions of the experiment, the subjects perceived as their own body of another person, or a mannequin.

05.12.2008
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Caution: Stem cells!

Questionable methods of stem cell treatment are most actively advertised by medical institutions in countries such as China, Thailand, India and Russia.

05.12.2008
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Rusnano asks scammers not to worry

The project selection system created in the Rusnano state Corporation will not allow fraudsters to "fall for public funds with their adventurous ideas," Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said at the International Forum on Nanotechnology.

04.12.2008