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Controversial

Hamburger, almost identical to the natural one

Last Monday in London there was an event that is called "historic", "epoch-making" and "turning point": a person for the first time tasted a hamburger with "cultured meat" identical to beef.

12.08.2013
New in Gerontology

Now the water is wetter...

Living people whose age is approaching 100 years, on average, have preserved their mental alertness and physical shape better than their peers who lived a decade ago.

12.07.2013
Biomedicine

In Vitro fertilization: fly – it's cheaper!

Belgian reproductologists reported on successful clinical trials of a simplified IVF procedure, with the same effectiveness reducing its cost by an order of magnitude, up to 200 euros.

12.07.2013
Innovative Russia

Man in the palm of your hand

The box is smaller than a mobile phone – a model of human organs in one millionth of magnitude. Human organs and tissues are much more complicated, but today this development allows us to create, perhaps, their most adequate model.

12.07.2013
Other life sciences

Running from dementia

After training on the "squirrel wheel" in mice with a model of a severe hereditary disease leading, among other things, to dementia, mutant neurons fully recovered and began to create functional networks.

12.07.2013
Cellular technologies

Stem cell bones are getting closer to the clinic

For the first time, American researchers have gone all the way to transform specialized human cells (skin fibroblasts and bone marrow cells) into bone tissue cells.

12.07.2013
Controversial

Do omega-3 fatty acids increase the risk of prostate cancer?

As the lead author of the study noted, the results obtained contradict the generally accepted opinion about the positive effect of omega-3 fatty acids on health precisely because of their anti-inflammatory and, accordingly, oncoprotective effects.

11.07.2013
Nanotechnology

Will DNA nanoparticles help you quit smoking?

Scientists from the University of Arizona have created a nicotine-containing artificial "virus" that can be used as a vaccine that adjusts the immune system to fight nicotine.

11.07.2013
Healthy skepticism

Sensational discovery of gerontologists

The study, which began 20 years ago and continues to this day, has allowed us to obtain previously unknown data: as people age, they feel worse and become more helpless!

11.07.2013
Nanotechnology

Nanodetectors for artificial skin are becoming more sensitive

Sensors based on gold nanoparticles still lose to human skin, but they register a mechanical load of several hundredths of a gram, a temperature change within one degree and fluctuations in relative humidity up to one percent.

10.07.2013
Genetic engineering

Immunity from the test tube

With the help of genetic engineering, it will be possible to design antibodies that do not exist in nature with unique, predetermined properties aimed at treating certain diseases.

10.07.2013
New in Gerontology

The rate of aging is determined in the womb

In the future, a blood test for biomarkers of aging will determine the level of age-related changes relative to the biological age of a person, assess the risk of developing senile diseases and develop new approaches to their prevention.

10.07.2013
Other life sciences

The system needs to be changed!

New research, especially in genomics, provides a huge amount of information that modern databases cannot process. Therefore, it is necessary to think about creating a fundamentally new global information system.

10.07.2013
Various

Life expectancy: lies, blatant lies…

Forbes columnist Clem Chambers is sure that the increase in life expectancy is a lie. And explains who benefits from it, and who – on the contrary.

09.07.2013
Biotechnologies - into life

Made in Zelenograd

NIOBIS company became one of the first startups of the Zelenograd Nanocenter, and today its project in the field of electrostimulation of cell growth on nanostructured surfaces is preparing to find serious investors.

09.07.2013
Biomedicine

Alzheimer's disease: another promising approach

Increasing the expression of the Scara1 protein is a promising approach to the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. This could potentially lead to the development of methods to use the immune system to delay the progression of the disease.

09.07.2013
Biomedicine

Cancer diagnosis: glucose + MRI

Glucose will tell us about the activity of different areas of a cancerous tumor: the more intensively cells divide, the more sugar they absorb, and the difference in glucose concentrations in tissues can be detected using a conventional MRI scanner.

09.07.2013