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Healthy skepticism

Not out of the kindness of my heart

In 2011-2015 The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo have sponsored more than 96 healthcare organizations. Thus they tried to neutralize the opponents and keep the profit.

10.10.2016
Bioethics

Have a drink before the autopsy

American scientists have concluded that beer provides the proper level of anesthesia and immobilization of laboratory land snails before killing in the framework of research.

10.10.2016
Other life sciences

The most important neurotransmitter

The brain is based on the interaction of nerve cells, and they talk to each other using substances called mediators.

07.10.2016
Other life sciences

Waiting for the Cybathlon

80 research groups from 25 countries will take part in the Cybathlon, from small startups to the world's largest manufacturers of fancy prosthetics.

07.10.2016
Grants and competitions

Expir Project

The free service for finding funding for scientific and technical projects contains all relevant grants and competitions from development institutes, foundations and commercial structures.

07.10.2016
Other life sciences

Predatory protocells

Chemists from the University of Bristol have developed a system of microscopic water-soluble particles, so-called protocells, that can hunt each other.

07.10.2016
Cellular technologies

3D printing of hair follicles

They do not promise us fast results, but in the future it is possible to restore the hair cover without transplanting plastic or the patient's own hair.

06.10.2016
Other life sciences

Domestic gadget for health monitoring

At the end of the third quarter of 2016, the release of the telemedicine complex CardioMarker is planned, which allows monitoring the condition of the heart and the entire body at a distance.

06.10.2016
New in Gerontology

You can't jump higher than the ceiling

The maximum life expectancy has already been reached and is 115 years. The absolute limit is 125 years: the probability of finding a person who has lived to 125 is less than 1 in 10,000.

06.10.2016
Nanotechnology

Cantilever for infectious diseases

Researchers from the University of Alberta have invented a device that can quickly identify harmful bacteria and determine how resistant they are to antibiotics.

05.10.2016
Genetics

Are you sweeter or fatter?

Some people do not like sweets and prefer fatty foods due to a mutation in the MC4R gene. Mutations in this gene are often found in people suffering from obesity.

05.10.2016
Biomedicine

What to do with the Zika virus?

The phenomenon of the Zika virus can be used in epidemiology textbooks as a vivid example of an underestimated threat. There is only one question on the agenda – what to do?

05.10.2016
New in Gerontology

Take care of the children

The stress suffered in childhood leads to accelerated telomere reduction. As a result, the cells age faster, and the person dies earlier than it could happen in other conditions.

04.10.2016
Other life sciences

Microflora and breast cancer

Microbes living in the breast, even in small quantities, in some cases can increase or, conversely, reduce the risk of breast cancer.

04.10.2016
Other life sciences

How the tumor hides from the immune system

Experts from the University of British Columbia have discovered a new mechanism that prevents the recognition of carcinoma cells by the immune system.

04.10.2016