Science and Technology

Created immune cells that can protect the body from HIV

Researchers from the University of Stanford (USA) have discovered a previously unknown type of gene therapy, which can later protect the human body from the AIDS virus.

24 January 2013, 12:15

Ulcer - an infectious disease, according to scientists

Recently, more and more gastroenterologists have been engaged in research into diseases such as ulcer and gastritis. Experts from the UK claim that the ulcer is an infectious disease and, in connection with this, has the property of being transmitted by airborne droplets, and also through kisses.

23 January 2013, 09:15

Ginseng will hit impotence

Researchers from South Korea proved the most important fact for men all over the world: ginseng, whose medicinal properties have long been used in China, is actually able to cure impotence.

15 January 2013, 10:13

Fiber slows the development of prostate cancer

The benefits of fiber have long been known to everyone who is at least a little interested in healthy nutrition. The words "fiber" and "weight loss" have become practically synonymous in modern dietetics, fiber is a fairly crude vegetable food that normalizes the work of the gastrointestinal tract.

15 January 2013, 09:10

Scar tissue can be "reprogrammed" into the heart muscle

Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College have proved that it is possible to "reprogram" the cells of scar tissue that form after myocardial infarction, so that they become functional muscle cells.

14 January 2013, 09:25

Scientists have studied the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury

Researchers from the University of South Florida and their colleagues from the Medical Center of War Veterans. James A. Haley studied the long-term consequences of craniocerebral trauma and found that TBI leads to a progressive deterioration in brain activity, which is characterized by inflammation and suppression of cell regeneration.

13 January 2013, 14:45

Scientists have discovered what acute vision depends on

Researchers from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, in collaboration with a team of scientists from the Salk Institute in California, were the first to discover that a particular protein is important not only for the health of the retina, but also for understanding and possible methods of treating other diseases of the immune, reproductive, vascular and nervous systems , as well as various types of cancer.

13 January 2013, 09:24

Unexpected factors affecting the sex of the child

Researchers from the University of Geneva tried to shed light on this complex process by identifying the decisive role of insulin and insulin-like growth factors IGF1 and IGF2, a family of hormones known for their direct involvement in human metabolism and growth.

12 January 2013, 14:20

Anemia is able to fight cancer cells

During the research, physicians found that an organism that suffers from sickle cell anemia is able to fight cells of malignant cancerous tumors.

12 January 2013, 09:07

Chemotherapy is effective with interruptions

Nowadays, a huge number of people suffer from the defeat of the body by malignant and benign cancers. Chemotherapy is the most common method of cancer treatment. Depending on the stage of the disease and on the type of tumor, chemotherapy of different intensity is used. A single medicine capable of destroying a malignant tumor has not yet been invented, but scientists all over the world do not give up trying to fight the disease.

11 January 2013, 11:46

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