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Why do smokers get sick more often

Men are more susceptible than women to mild age-related cognitive disorders (disorders of memory and cognitive abilities) preceding the development of dementia.

Gene therapy for the treatment of drug addicts and alcoholics

Excess fat in the abdominal area (abdominal fat) synthesizes the hunger-enhancing hormone neuropeptide Y, which stimulates the formation of new fat cells, thereby further increasing the waist circumference.

Low Molecular Weight Heparins Against Tumors

Neutrophils differentiated in the presence of nicotine were characterized by a reduced ability to search for and destroy bacteria in comparison with the cells of the control experiment.

Immunotherapy will stop the development of AIDS

Presentations of innovative projects and technologies, as well as investment projects supported by state regional programs will be organized within the framework of the forum.

Do you want healthy children? Eat well – before, during and after!

The mother's nutrition before conception of the child can have a strong impact on its viability in the future.

Suture material with bacteriophages will get rid of postoperative infections

The experimental method of immunotherapy adjusts the immune system to fight HIV and simultaneously enhances its ability to eliminate accidental infections and prevent the development of AIDS.

Experimental breast cancer vaccine: encouraging results

Nylon suture material coated with bacteriophages – viruses harmless to humans, "feeding" on bacteria – is a promising alternative to antibiotics.

Pig cell transplantation helped diabetics

Difficult choice: Parkinson's disease or gout and urolithiasis?

they are protected from damage by the human immune system.

Avoiding margarine will reduce the risk of breast cancer

its use in Parkinsonism.

How fasting and obesity are linked to cancer

Atherosclerosis is even more dangerous than you think

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Scientists from the Department of Structural Biology of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry are engaged in the creation of targeted drugs that can treat specific forms of cancer. academicians M.M. Shemyakin and Yu.A. Ovchinnikov. New generation drugs are being developed in the course of studies of the structure, dynamics and functions of membrane proteins and peptides.

In memory of Lev Kiselyov

Russian geneticists have learned how to grow human vascular tissue from stem cells. And they do it better than anyone else on the planet so far.

microRNAs are necessary for procreation

microRNAs affect the ability of mice to reproduce offspring.

Synthetic peptoids instead of antibodies

Peptoids are synthetic analogues of fragments of amino acid sequences of natural proteins (peptides).

"Slyunomika": new diagnostic possibilities for the composition of saliva

Bones will tell you how soon a person will grow old

After screening 300,000 synthetic peptoids, scientists selected five compounds with the properties of therapeutic antibodies used to treat cancer. One of them, which binds most strongly to the receptor for vascular endothelial growth factor-2, blocked the growth of human tumors in an experimental mouse model.

Do you want to lose weight? It's better not to ask how!

The new concept presented at the 37th Annual Congress of the American Dental Research Association - Salivaomics Knowledge Base (SKB) – fully meets these three conditions and is a virtual diagnostic atlas of saliva.

Mad world: a house that prolongs the life of the owner

In France, the promotion of "starvation diets" can become a criminal offense.