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Seminar "Genetics of life expectancy and aging": personal impressions

On March 25-26, 2008, the first All-Russian seminar "Genetics of life Expectancy and aging" was held at the Institute of Biology of the Komi National Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Syktyvkar).

The first hybrids of Britain

The first of the cybrids (cytoplasmic hybrids) created in Newcastle lived for three days, and the largest of them grew to 32 cells.

Pot by prescription

Surprisingly, more than half of the psychoactive substances contained in marijuana can be used for medical purposes.

Cancer starved to death

A hunger strike may allow you to increase the dose of the drug, and thereby the effect on tumor cells without increasing the effect of toxic effects on the body.

Vitamins: a complete collection of misconceptions

Spring is the right time to remember about vitamins. But not so much about what everyone already knows, but about a lot of myths that many people take for medical facts.

50 years of melatonin research: results and prospects

50 years of melatonin research

The search for an AIDS vaccine has reached a dead end

Away from the "big pharma"

We are implicitly given to understand that all efforts to create new original Russian drugs are generally meaningless, because everything is already there, everything is invented, everything can be bought on the world market.

The lame companion of geniuses: five questions about gout

Among talents, the prevalence of gout is 5-10%, which is 10 times higher than the average, and among geniuses it soars to 30-50%. In other words, every second genius was gouty!

Nanomachines will signal about single DNA molecules

An experimental biosensor can be compared to a mass of microscopic beacons that flash upon contact with a certain sequence of nucleotides. The sensitivity of the new sensor is millions of times higher than that of existing DNA detection methods.

Cancer doesn't have enough red wine

Scientists used resveratrol in a fairly high concentration - about 50 g per liter of nutrient fluid in which pancreatic cancer cells grew. In the wine obtained as a result of natural fermentation, the concentration of this substance reaches 30 g per liter.

From knee to brain: a journey through the human body

A museum in the form of a human body, CORPUS, has opened in Holland. Visitors are invited to enter the giant model through the knee, and exit through the brain.

A smart tablet controls not only itself, but also the patient

Each Raisin system tablet contains an indigestible sensor, which is a microchip the size of a grain of sand and a thin-film battery that activates upon contact with an aqueous medium after ingestion.

The triumph of computer methods: prediction of the structure of proteins

One of the research teams actively engaged in predicting the structure of proteins using computers is the Washington laboratory of David Baker.

Deposit or lose

The new model of circulation of scientific publications involves both independent depositing of articles by scientists in electronic archives, and the release of peer-reviewed journals that do not charge a subscription fee or for access to their archives.

Hydrogen sulfide for prolonging life: possible mechanism of action

Hydrogen sulfide, harmful in large quantities, in small doses can not only prolong life, but also save the body's resources and significantly reduce the need for food and oxygen.

State vitamin deficiency

For too long, the fact of technical backwardness, the wretchedness of hardware equipment, unprofitable volumes of unit capacity, etc., plus the notorious residual financing, was ignored. Ignoring these facts exacerbated the consequences – the collapse of domestic ascorbic acid production.

The country will be shod in nanos

Long before the appearance of Rosnanotech, which does not spare millions for the development of nanotechnology production, the director of a small knitting company "Mayor" Vladimir Rodionov conceived to produce socks with the addition of silver nanoparticles.

The bioprinter created a functioning piece of heart muscle

According to scientists, the first "marketable" fabrics from the printer will appear on the market in the very next few years.