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New in Gerontology

Social isolation shortens life

The lack of contact with family, loved ones and society as a whole increases morbidity and mortality rates among the elderly, regardless of the subjective feeling of loneliness.

29.03.2013
Biomedicine

Can Salmonella cure Alzheimer's disease?

A solution of modified lipopolysaccharide of the cell wall of the salmonella bacterium reduces the number and area of amyloid plaques in the brain of transgenic mice and improves their ability to remember.

29.03.2013
Genetic engineering

Biotransistor for biocomputers

The "transcriptor" (transistor based on transcription) is made of DNA and enzymes: RNA polymerase, which performs transcription - synthesis of RNA on a DNA template, and integrase, which regulates the "current strength" – the intensity of RNA synthesis.

29.03.2013
Other life sciences

Microflora transplantation instead of gastric bypass

Gastric bypass surgery helps gluttons lose weight. But you can do without surgery: transplanting mice with the "right" community of intestinal microorganisms led to a significant reduction in the amount of adipose tissue and rapid weight loss.

29.03.2013
Genetics

Will the state eugenics program make the Chinese smarter?

A program has been launched in China, the purpose of which is to identify the genes responsible for powerful intelligence. If successful, this will allow potential parents to choose the most "smart" ones from their own embryos.

29.03.2013
Bioethics

Who is the owner of your genes?

Experts are sounding the alarm about the loss of "genome freedom", which is stolen by patents for DNA sequences issued to researchers and companies engaged in the study of the human genome.

28.03.2013
Grants and competitions

Anniversary competition "Business of innovative technologies"

The entrepreneurial competition "Business of Innovative Technologies" (BIT), celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, begins accepting applications for participation in the main federal track of innovative projects competitions.

28.03.2013
Your health

Don't forget about work and horses

In Japan, there is an official term "karoshi" – death from excessive work. The Ministry of Labor of Japan even has an official instruction on how to define this very karoshi.

28.03.2013
Your health

Men and women get sick in different ways

Men and women are strikingly different from each other. Including the peculiarities of the course of the same diseases, as well as the effects of pharmacological drugs.

28.03.2013
Other life sciences

Three times ten

A paper sensor with a cost of 10 cents is able to determine the picomolar concentrations of biomolecules in a 10-microliter blood serum sample in 10 minutes.

27.03.2013
Various

Ultra-thin and ultra-sharp endoscope

The endoscope, whose thickness does not exceed the thickness of a human hair, has a resolution 4 times better than existing endoscopes.

27.03.2013
Grants and competitions

Competition for the creation of a "new generation condom"

To begin with, the winner of the contest will receive $ 100,000, and in case of successful implementation of the idea, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will invest up to a million dollars in the production of a new "product No. 2".

27.03.2013
Your health

A cold is dangerous for mental abilities

People with high levels of antibodies to viruses and pathogenic bacteria in the blood have a quarter increased risk of deterioration of memory and thinking abilities.

27.03.2013
Various

Summer is forever

The Supreme Court rejected the claim of several public organizations demanding the abolition of year-round summer time in Russia.

26.03.2013
Other life sciences

Electrodes made of liquid metal ink

A drawing applied to the patient's skin using liquid metal ink can make monitoring of cardiac activity much less painful and will allow doctors to observe a number of vital signs in real time.

26.03.2013
Cellular technologies

We will not be changing spare parts soon

It is naive to believe that in a year or two they will start printing organs, and the donor procurement service can be abolished. At the current rate of development of the industry, the shares of the first organs can be printed no earlier than by 2030.

26.03.2013
Biotechnologies - into life

Biotechnology opens up wide opportunities for business

The VII International Congress "Biotechnology: state and prospects of development" was held in Moscow. For four days, scientists, production workers, and entrepreneurs discussed what prospects this area of knowledge opens up for humanity. And they are, in fact, limitless.

26.03.2013