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Scientists have explained why most people who lose weight gain it back on again over time

As people develop obesity, their brains stop responding to satiety signals, which means they start eating even more

AI has been taught to predict heart disease

Researchers analyzed abdominal aortic calcinosis using a machine learning algorithm

WHO may consider aspartame sweetener a carcinogen

It is believed that its consumption in large quantities is associated with an increased risk of cancer

Roller coasters remove kidney stones

Scientists from the University of Michigan have found out that roller coaster turns remove kidney stones. And the best way to do this is to go to the tail of the attraction.

I'm going to my homeland…

Six new biotechnological laboratories will be opened at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University by the end of the year. They will be headed by Russians who have long gone abroad, and now have decided to work at home.

There has never been such a thing in transplantology

Japanese doctors removed the lower lobe of the mother's left lung and, having "constructed" smaller left and right lungs from this tissue, performed an operation to transplant a new organ to a two-year-old child.

"Upgrade" at the cellular level

Artificial organelles, if filled with a suitable set of enzymes, can also work in other human cells – and this opens up opportunities for a new type of anti-cancer therapy.

A Russian-made robot surgeon?

Russia will create a domestic robot for surgery, the development of which will take four years.

Pensioner fights with enemies of the people

For 14 years, an 80-year-old grandmother has been on the warpath against pests and devotes 8 hours a day to their destruction.

Terminators are getting old too :(

The physical aging of the T800 terminators will find a simple explanation in the new film. Arnold Schwarzenegger told about it in an interview with MTV.

Nano-castling

The Board of Directors of Rusnano will consider the issue of transferring the powers of the Chairman of the Management Board of Rusnano to the Rusnano Management Company, in which Anatoly Chubais will take the post of Chairman of the Management Board.

Micro - Principality of Centenarians

The Principality of Monaco topped the ranking of countries with the highest life expectancy. Japan took the second place in the 2014 ranking.

Sales of antitumor drugs are 2 times ahead of the overall growth of the global pharmaceutical market

The increase in the volume of sales of antitumor drugs will be provided by drugs introduced to the market over the past decade, aimed at certain targets, as well as a longer period of treatment of an increasing number of patients.

Pharmaceutical manufacturers of all countries, unite!

Pharmaceutical and biotech companies, outsourcing research organizations, research centers, investors involved in the development of medicines are interested in a partnership based on the sharing of information.

Fight against tumor angiogenesis: not by washing, but by rolling!

Do aging men weaken their minds more slowly, but more often than women?

Scientists have isolated from hematopoietic stem cells a subpopulation whose potential for division is 10 times greater than the rest.

Pig cell transplantation helped diabetics

Don't the nanos smell? And how do they affect nature?

In 2003, neurophysiologists from the Allen Institute have already presented to the world a three-dimensional genetic atlas of the mouse brain. There are not many more genes in the human brain than in the mouse, but the human brain itself is 2000 times larger than the mouse brain. Therefore, scanning the activity of genes in all its areas is an incredibly ambitious task.

Doctors' strike against pension reform?

If doctors vote for a strike, they will not provide services that can be postponed without harm to health. The result of the vote will be known by the end of May.

Antibiotics – resign! They will be replaced by natural substances