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Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of eggs instead of "three-parent" children?

An alternative technique involves the neutralization of faulty mitochondria in eggs. Whether it will be more effective and safer is still unknown, but fanatical guardians of bioethics will surely protest against such an approach.

24.04.2015
Healthy skepticism

How the Chinese secretly made a Superman

What exactly is the terrible danger of this research, which made all progressive humanity shudder in horror? Only that the Chinese did something without asking permission from non-Chinese.

24.04.2015
Innovative Russia

The Russian exoskeleton is ready for testing

The ExoaThlet company has agreed to cooperate with the N.I. Pirogov RNIMU to conduct the first clinical studies of an exoskeleton for the rehabilitation of people with impaired musculoskeletal functions of the lower extremities on the basis of the Translational Medicine Research Institute.

24.04.2015
Genetics

Why did mammoths become extinct?

In the last mammoths that lived on Wrangel Island, anomalies, mutations and deformities increased as a result of closely related interbreeding. The researchers came to these results by fully reading the genomes of two mammoths.

24.04.2015
Other life sciences

Will DNA computers replace hardware?

By 2020, the volume of data created and stored by humanity will reach 40,000 exabytes. Less than 100 g of DNA would be enough to store this information, which makes us sincerely believe in the prospect of the development of DNA computers.

24.04.2015
Cellular technologies

24 million for the development of an "organism-on-a-chip"

The aim of the new project is to develop an "organism-on-a–chip" - a system of miniature analogues of human organs designed to simulate the body's reactions to chemical and biological agents and develop therapies.

24.04.2015
Biomedicine

A new strategy for cancer immunotherapy

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new method of cancer immunotherapy. The essence of the technology is to combine the work of the two main branches of the immune system.

23.04.2015
Genetic engineering

Editing the human genome: the first pancake lump

Chinese geneticists admitted that they tried to modify the genome of human embryos and faced insurmountable difficulties that do not allow using the popular CRISPR/CAS9 genome editor for therapeutic purposes.

23.04.2015
Prolonging youth

Low-calorie diet rejuvenates aging muscles

In young animals, a low-calorie diet causes a decrease in muscle mass, while in middle age it has a beneficial effect on the condition of muscle tissue, improving its metabolism and muscle mass.

23.04.2015
Grants and competitions

Summer School "Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials"

The All-Russian summer school of the Fulbright program in the field of exact sciences and technologies "Nanotechnologies and nanomaterials" will be held in Kazan from June 15 to 26, 2015.

23.04.2015
Your health

Why do women's hair fall out?

Male pattern baldness is so common that it does not cause the slightest surprise. At the same time, hair loss can be a very distressing phenomenon for a woman. What causes female baldness and how to deal with it?

23.04.2015
Other life sciences

Lecture on molecular evolution

On May 25, Mikhail Gelfand, a biologist, deputy director of the Institute of Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, will give a speech at the Central House of the Journalist. Lecture topic: "Molecular evolution".

22.04.2015
Healthy skepticism

Bioresonance Verdict

The Ostankino court of Moscow sentenced Sergei Konoplev, who is the creator of the Deta device, which allegedly helps treat all known chronic diseases, to five years probation.

21.04.2015
Genetics

Genetic indicator of aging

Scientists from MIPT and the Institute of Biology of the KNC RAS in Syktyvkar have developed a combined indicator of genetic processes associated with aging, which they called DDLD (DNA Damage Level Differential, the differential level of DNA damage).

21.04.2015