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Muscles for the robot

Soft artificial muscles have been developed, driven by electricity and capable of lifting a load weighing 1000 times more than its own.

20.09.2017
Genetic engineering

White from purple

Japanese scientists by changing one gene with the help of the genome editor – the CRISPR-Cas9 system – turned purple ipomoea flowers into white.

20.09.2017
Your health

Between pressure and smoking

The main cause of premature death is coronary heart disease. In the second place – poor nutrition, in the third – smoking.

20.09.2017
Other life sciences

Three hundred percent vision

It is quite possible that the bionic lens Bionic Lens of the Canadian Ocumetics Technology Corporation will give its owner super vision.

20.09.2017
Various

Genes in the dock

The discovery of new gene variations that make a person prone to committing crimes is unlikely to affect the work of the justice system.

19.09.2017
Other life sciences

Sex and violence

The neurons involved in the formation of sexual and aggressive behavior in males are woven into one tangle, and in females they are separated into two separate groups.

19.09.2017
Prolonging youth

The work of the drowning themselves

We must do everything possible to develop effective aging therapy as soon as possible. Because otherwise our parents won't live to see such therapy.

19.09.2017
Other life sciences

For lack of a stamp…

Whether the fossil species of hominins, in whose bones DNA has decomposed, belong to the ancestors of man, can be understood by analyzing polysaccharides – glycans.

19.09.2017
Biomedicine

AQ-13 against malaria

Researchers have managed to create a new drug to combat resistant strains of malaria plasmodium, the causative agent of malaria.

19.09.2017
Genetics

The gene of a happy old age

When analyzing a huge database of life-shortening mutations, suspiciously few were found. Perhaps because they are swept away by natural selection.

18.09.2017
Controversial

From cybercrime to bioprime?

Hacking a bionic prosthesis, DNA intelligence, rhinovirus spam is not a complete list of crimes that await us in the probable future.

18.09.2017
Prolonging youth

How to Beat Aging

Over the past decades, many different approaches have been proposed, and all of them are united only by how ineffective they are.

18.09.2017
Nanotechnology

Multicolored melanin

Structures consisting of melanin and silicon oxide nanoparticles can create any conceivable shade of color that does not degrade over time.

18.09.2017
Biotechnologies - into life

Moderna Therapeutics: Medicinal futurism

Interest in the achievements of Modern Therapeutics in the innovative therapeutic field based on matrix RNA (mRNA) is warmed up as never before.

18.09.2017
Nanotechnology

Patch instead of liposuction

The mass of fat on the side of the abdomen where the patch was glued was reduced by 20% just four weeks after the start of the experiment.

18.09.2017
Cellular technologies

Three-dimensional bone fragments

The new technology of "nanopinks" (nanokicking) allows to grow three-dimensional samples of mineralized bone tissue from mesenchymal stem cells.

15.09.2017