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Evolution on a chip

Researchers have created an installation that is controlled by an autonomous computer and is able to direct the evolution of so-called RNA enzymes – catalysts of biological processes based on RNA – without human intervention.

Energy drinks: to drink or not to drink?

Recently, the noise around the "power engineers" has intensified in connection with court proceedings over several deaths allegedly related to their use. Let's try to figure out what energy drinks really are.

Diets don't work?

Dieters usually lose 5-10% of their original weight in the first six months, but 30-60% of them gain more weight after dieting than they lost within four to five years. And in reality, the picture can be even scarier.

Ahead of the whole planet

Russia will become the first country in the world to sell a cancer vaccine. A small pharmacological company Antigenics announced on Tuesday that Russian regulatory authorities have approved Oncophage for sale.

Dear germ

After the chromosomes of hundreds of species of individual bacteria were deciphered, a new approach appeared in the genetics of microorganisms – the population approach. Of course, the population of the "human bioreactor" turned out to be one of the most important for the study of microbial populations.

They are alive and glowing

It is simply impossible to list everything that genetic lighting engineers have done in some ten years. Maybe while this issue of the magazine is being prepared for publication, we will learn about another living and glowing miracle.

10 tips for those who want to get out of the subway alive and well

After the tragic death of a passenger in the St. Petersburg metro, the administration of the subway prepared a memo, following the advice of which you can go down to the subway, get to your destination and come to the surface alive and well.

Body mass index is not yet an indicator of health

The results of the study call into question the adequacy of such an indicator as the body mass index as an indicator of human health.

From science to business

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.