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Note to the businessman

Prospects for investments in biotech

Billions of dollars are already being invested in biotechnology. Let's try to figure out why people are already investing a lot of money in them today and what awaits us in the very near future.

22.08.2016
New in Gerontology

Stem cells and aging

Aging can be considered as a process in which a pool of endogenous stem cells progressively loses its ability to replace damaged cells with age.

22.08.2016
Bioethics

Transplantation in Russia

It is very difficult to talk about organ donation in Russia. It seems that at the word "transplantation" our compatriots' logic fails and pure panic turns on.

22.08.2016
Biomedicine

How the Universal Cancer vaccine works

A team of scientists from several scientific institutions in Germany managed to adapt an antiviral protection system for immunotherapy of cancer tumors.

22.08.2016
Controversial

The world of centenarians

If ever a person's life expectancy increases to several hundred years, it will entail a change in the entire way of life that we are accustomed to. The world will be different.

22.08.2016
Cloning

Dolly v.2: elderly, but healthy

Clones obtained from the same cell line as Dolly, aged 8 years (60-80 by human standards), are quite healthy animals. There are no signs of premature aging in sheep.

22.08.2016
Bioethics

The reaction of ethical rejection

Valery Spiridonov, the first candidate for a head transplant, shares his opinion on the medical, psychological and ethical problems of such an operation.

22.08.2016
Other life sciences

Amyloid plaques in the transparent brain

The visualization method, which makes the brain tissue transparent, made it possible to see a three-dimensional picture of the location of clusters of beta-amyloid plaques in the brains of people suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

22.07.2016
Cellular technologies

Cord blood for the treatment of macular degeneration

As part of a new clinical study, patients with a dry form of age-related macular degeneration are injected with umbilical cord blood cells differentiated into retinal pigment epithelium cells.

22.07.2016
Nanotechnology

Silicon nanoparticles for theranostics

Biocompatible and biodegradable silicon nanoparticles can serve as a completely harmless agent for the detection and treatment of malignant tumors.

22.07.2016
Various

Ceramic laser for surgery and industry

The ceramic-based laser will be used as a low-traumatic and cheap laser scalpel, as well as for cutting and engraving composite materials.

22.07.2016
Genetics

Why do women live longer than men

The new study adds empirical evidence to the "protected X chromosome hypothesis" proposed to explain why males age faster than females.

22.07.2016
Genetic engineering

Kamikaze bacteria fight cancer

Once in the body, the bacteria self-destruct and secrete the drug into the tumor area. The new method combined with chemotherapy extended the life of laboratory mice by 50%.

22.07.2016
Other life sciences

Acceleration of protein docking calculations

Biologists and mathematicians from MIPT, Stony Brook University and other research centers have taught a computer to predict the structure of protein "couplings" in a cell 10 times faster.

21.07.2016
Nanotechnology

Nanotubes for neurosurgeons

The material made of intertwined nanotubes was developed to purify seawater from oil pollution. It turned out that it can also be useful in neurosurgery.

21.07.2016
Nanotechnology

Filaments-biosensors

Woven into ordinary medical threads, the thinnest sensors are able to measure temperature, pressure, blood acidity and glucose content in it.

21.07.2016
Your health

Surgery for prevention

The most common preventive surgery in oncology is preventive mastectomy. In addition, cases of removal of the thyroid gland, colon are not uncommon.

21.07.2016
Other life sciences

Biorobot crawls on the bottom

To create a crawling robot, scientists connected the muscles of a sea hare – the mollusk Aplysia californica – with a 3D-printed frame and taught it to crawl.

20.07.2016
Genetics

We are what they ate

For thousands of years, man has adapted to living conditions: weather, predators, the change of day and night and, of course, food. The eating habits of those times are still hidden in our genes.

20.07.2016