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A small gadget diagnoses sleep apnea

Built-in sensors measure blood oxygen saturation, heart rate, respiratory effort, sleep duration and changes in body position.

08.06.2017
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Marital quarrels will save your health

If a person does not try to resolve the conflict, hides his discontent, repeatedly replays the situation in his head and experiences growing resentment about the source of the conflict, this can have the most deplorable consequences.

24.01.2008
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The second "three-parent" child

In Ukraine, a child with the genetic material of three parents was born using the method of transferring a fertilized egg into a donor one for the first time.

18.01.2017
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Reprogram a cancer cell

Experts from Microsoft Research use their knowledge to solve one of the most difficult and deadly problems of our time – the fight against cancer.

27.09.2016
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Men have more synapses

A study of the brain tissue of epilepsy patients operated on at the Spanish Cajal Institute showed that neurons in men contact each other more often than in women.

13.10.2008
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5 million for social service workers

The Hometeam service does not just select employees, but takes into account the common interests and needs of both parties. In addition, it allows you to keep in touch with doctors, family members and emergency centers.

19.02.2016
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Mitosis under control: new details

The discovery of a biochemical pathway called "mitosis control factor-2" raises more questions than it provides answers, because so far a lot is unknown about how the components of the mitosis control mechanism interact with each other and how an exceptionally high accuracy of chromosome separation is achieved.

16.07.2008
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Ointment instead of injections

Pharmacologists are considering the possibility of creating several soft dosage forms based on silica gels, as well as the possibility of transdermal delivery of drugs for which an injectable method of administration was previously used.

16.07.2008
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MIPT patents graphene biosensors in the USA

The key feature of the sensor is the use as a binding layer of a thin film of several layers of graphene or graphene oxide, which has unique physicochemical properties.

12.11.2015
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microRNAs will bring herpes to the surface

Currently, a group of researchers is testing a new drug that binds microRNAs in order to transfer the herpes virus to an active state when it is treatable with antiviral drugs, for example, acyclovir.

04.07.2008
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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
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Two new ways to fight atherosclerosis

Harvard researchers have deciphered the mechanisms underlying the fact that the ROCK1 protein significantly suppresses inflammation of the vascular walls in atherosclerosis, which is the main cause of heart attacks and strokes. The authors found that ROCK1 is necessary for immune cells – macrophages – to clean the walls of blood vessels from fat deposits. A normal side effect of such cleansing is inflammation, but often this process gets out of control, which causes the opposite result - the growth of atherosclerotic plaques and blockage of arteries.

24.06.2008
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Let's hit the arthritis with alcoholism!

Scientists at the Karolinska Institute found that alcohol consumption is associated with a reduced risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis and the more respondents indulged in red and white, the less the risk of "catching" this autoimmune inflammation of the joints became.

06.06.2008
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How to incite macrophages on amyloid plaques

Blocking the activity of TFR-beta stimulates the movement of peripheral macrophages through the blood-brain barrier, which surround neurons and eliminate amyloid plaques in the brain.

03.06.2008