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Your health

How does immunity work

The word "immunity" has become a kind of marketing tool when advertising medicines and medical services. But what is immunity really?

25.10.2016
Your health

Eat a chocolate bar

American scientists have confirmed on the basis of meta-analysis that the flavonoids contained in cocoa improve the biochemical parameters of metabolism and the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

24.10.2016
Genetics

Genes and schizophrenia

The researchers studied the cells of the cerebral cortex of patients with schizophrenia and found that disorders in the regulation of gene activity are associated with the development of the disease.

24.10.2016
Genetic engineering

Stem cell gene therapy: faster and cheaper

The compact semi-automatic system is designed to produce individual genetically modified hematopoietic cells of patients in medical institutions.

24.10.2016
Bioethics

New children from three parents

While experts in reproduction and bioethics criticized the creators of the first "three-parent" child, several more reports of similar experiments appeared.

24.10.2016
Your health

Maligned cholesterol

Mr. Cholesterol is not a villain. He was simply misunderstood. Today we will share everything you need to know about Mr. Cholesterol and reveal all the secrets of this good guy.

24.10.2016
Other life sciences

Protein motors

These amazing molecules, the importance of their normal functioning for human health and their potential application in nanotechnology will be discussed in this article.

24.10.2016
Nanotechnology

RUSNANOPRIZE Finalists

The International RUSNANOPRIZE 2016 Award Committee, which is awarded for the best nanotechnology developments introduced into mass production, has identified three finalists.

21.10.2016
Your health

Smoking and appetite

When you smoke, you want to eat less. What and how "a wedge knocks out a wedge" should be looked for in the latest issue of Nature thanks to the work of researchers from the University of Texas

21.10.2016
Grants and competitions

Competition for young oncologists

The purpose of the competition is to support young scientists, stimulate their scientific activities, and reward them for scientific achievements that make a significant contribution to the development of oncology.

21.10.2016
Genetics

Evolution continues

In a new study, an international group of geneticists reconstructs human evolution that took place not in the Stone Age, but literally in recent centuries.

21.10.2016
Prolonging youth

The Immortality of Elizabeth Parrish

In September 2015, Elizabeth Parrish, director of the American pharmaceutical company BioViva, was the first in the world to change her genes in order to delay old age.

21.10.2016
Cellular technologies

Let's practice on chips

New drugs can be tested on animals, it is possible on human volunteers, but it is much more convenient and humane to use cellular models for this.

21.10.2016
Genetics

Do not put tomatoes in the refrigerator

Hypothermia reduces the activity of hundreds of genes in heat-loving plants, including those responsible for the synthesis of substances that make tomatoes taste sweeter and give them an attractive aroma.

21.10.2016
Note to the businessman

Biotechnology. Buy eternal life

Longevity-economy is being born before our eyes. Its boom will take place in the next 10-15 years, and this coincides with the planning horizon of venture funds.

20.10.2016
Nanotechnology

Antitubercular aerosol

Novosibirsk has developed an innovative method of delivering drugs to the foci of infection – not by pills or injections, but by inhaling nanoparticles 10-100 nm in size.

20.10.2016
Other life sciences

Non-genetic inheritance

The RNA fed to nematodes from the extracellular space, together with the yolk substance, enter the oocytes and then accumulate in the embryos, suppressing gene expression.

20.10.2016