Science

The transgenic mouse preparing for battle with obesity?

The transgenic mouse have being used in the research for more than three decades. It becomes the most widely used model organism due to its high similarity to human. Over the years, the scientist managed to discover and understand the role of many genes and experimentally check its role in numerous d... Read more

Living fossils not so much fossil?

Recently, the group of organisms commonly regarded as “living fossils”, that were believed not to change over millions of years, was found to be wrong. The team of researchers from the University of Hull, Leocester and the Natural History Museum in London presented that Triops cancriformis – common... Read more

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How does a hole in a cow’s body help scientists to reduce global warming?

When we think about the climate change and greenhouse gases - human activities, like vehicles, industry and agriculture, comes to our mind. The gas, which is known to be highly harmful for our climate is carbon dioxide, but methane is even 23 times more dangerous in terms of global warming. ... Read more

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Are diseases sexist?

Sexism accompanied mankind since the very beginning and is one of the most difficult stereotypes to eradicate. Traditional gender-roles as well as widely-shared cultural believes present men as more competent and socially valued than women in numerous activities. Even the medical research has been f... Read more

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How to save even 3000 people a day? The development of the new antimalarial drug!

With over 3.3 billion people living in areas at risk of malaria transmission and over 3000 of them dying every day, malaria is one of the most deadly disease worldwide. Even though this mosquito-borne disease is known to strike for over 10 000 years no really efficient and safe treatment has been dev... Read more

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Do bread baking and sunless skin tanning have anything in common? – The mystery of browning

When we eat a toast or a roasted steak, we usually do not realise that the same kind of a chemical reaction, which is responsible for the specific taste and brown colour of these foods, takes place after the contact of skin with a self-tanning cream. The process, which is common in these two apparent... Read more

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Can the pepsin of pork treat HIV infection? – Clinical trials of innovative anti-HIV medicines in Bulgaria

On 23rd February Immunotech Laboratory announced $2M funding approval from its associate Bulgarian Immunotech Partnership Company (Immunotech BG) for clinical trials of the firm’s patented HIV-AIDS medicine. ... Read more

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dr. House among pharma companies

Safori company (Genzyme) received a Company Award from European Organisation for Rare Diseases (EURORDIS) for its outstanding accomplishments in the field of therapies for rare diseases. Organized annually Rare Disease Day aims to raise awareness about rare diseases as an important health issue worl... Read more

Optimistic prospects for leukaemia treatment - Breakthroughs of Czech scientists

Leukaemia is a sort of the blood or bone marrow cancer. The main result of this serious disease is an abnormal increment in the number of immature white blood cells (blasts). There are two principal types of leukaemia; in case of the acute one the abundance of the blasts inhibits the formation of the... Read more

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Natural antibiotics produced by humans and how important is our sweat?

Human beings are constantly exposed to microbial and viral attack in every kind of the environment. There are pathogens in the air, on skin of other people, on the surface of things we use every day. Some of them even surprisingly high. Recently, paper money was reported to carry more germs than a to... Read more

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Health, beauty, potency… - How do we make a decision which supplement to choose?

Over-the-counter products (OTC), the medicines, which can be bought without the need to have a prescription, constitute a substantial share of the pharmaceutical market. In the moment we enter the pharmacy, the battle between the drugs’ producers to target us as their clients commences. What are the ... Read more

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MegaMatcher Accelerator 5.0 – new high-precision biometric identification technology

The 14th of January 2013, was the official date of introducing new product, MegaMatcher Accelerator 5.0, released by Neurotechnology company in Lithuania. ... Read more

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