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Healthy skepticism

"We're selling you a dummy"

Manufacturers of homeopathic medicines will be obliged to provide evidence of their effectiveness and safety or indicate on the packaging that the drug has no scientific justification.

21.11.2016
Other life sciences

A patch with a universal acoustic sensor

The soft acoustic sensor can continuously collect several acoustic signals from the heart and other internal organs at once and recognizes human speech.

21.11.2016
Healthy skepticism

Creams with hormones: myths and truth

Creams and serums with hormones are one of the main "horror stories" of the cosmetic market: it is believed that they can cause tumors or increase the vegetation on a woman's body.

18.11.2016
Your health

Don't worry be healthy

According to the results of a new study, healthy people who worry about non-existent diseases increase the risk of developing real cardiovascular diseases by 70%.

17.11.2016
Genetic engineering

CRISPR/Cas9: The first clinical trial

As part of the trials, patients with lung cancer are injected with their own T-lymphocytes, in which the PD-1 membrane protein gene was removed using CRISPR/Cas9 technology.

17.11.2016
Biomedicine

How to treat arthritis?

Scottish scientists have developed a method that allows you to predict the results of treatment of rheumatoid arthritis using machine learning.

17.11.2016
Other life sciences

A new method of losing weight without dieting

A small pilot study conducted by American scientists has shown that electrical stimulation of the balance organ helps to effectively reduce body weight.

17.11.2016
Prolonging youth

Is blood plasma the elixir of youth?

After injections of blood plasma of young people and adolescents in elderly mice, many age-related processes slowed down, memory, thinking improved, and activity increased.

17.11.2016
Innovative Russia

More postdocs for Russian Science

What has changed in Russian science with the advent of mega-grants, why Russian scientists do not know how to write articles and why the country needs the institute of postdocs.

16.11.2016
Biomedicine

Antibiotics from the computer

Computer analysis of the DNA of the human microbiota helped scientists identify two powerful antibiotics – humimycin A and humimycin B, which will help fight "superbugs".

16.11.2016
Biomedicine

New Hope Antibiotic

A group of Chinese researchers reported on the creation of a way to synthesize the recently discovered revolutionary antibiotic teixobactin (teixobactin).

16.11.2016
Other life sciences

What we know about placebo and its effects

By definition, a placebo is inert and cannot have any effect by itself, and the effect can be registered and evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively.

16.11.2016
Other life sciences

Bionics News Digest

Implanted electronics, chimera robots and biological computers are increasingly blurring the vague boundary between living beings and inanimate matter.

16.11.2016
Your health

Let's drink to good cholesterol!

A new study has contributed to support the theory that moderate alcohol consumption may be good for the heart.

16.11.2016
Various

BioQuark's plans postponed

Experiments on the "resurrection" of people in a state of clinical death have been removed from the list of experiments that were to be conducted in India this year.

16.11.2016
Biomedicine

RNA interference against "swine flu"

The method is not to find new vaccines, but to "train" the immune system to produce interferons – proteins that help the immune system cope with the virus.

15.11.2016