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Other life sciences

Count your white blood cells

The new device is able to count the number of all 5 types of leukocytes with an accuracy not inferior to a medical laboratory, and fits in a suitcase measuring 30x22x12 cm. In the future, the device is planned to be reduced to the size of a palm.

02.04.2013
Prolonging youth

Fish is especially useful for elderly people

Fish and seafood lovers are 30% less likely to die from heart attacks and other diseases compared to other elderly people, so they live on average 2.2 years longer.

02.04.2013
Exhibitions and conferences

Innovations in the space of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

The 14th International Forum "High Technologies of the XXI Century" (Innovations in the SCO space) and the International Exhibition "VT XXI-2013" will be held from 24 to 26 April 2013 at the Central Exhibition Complex "Expocentre".

02.04.2013
Cellular technologies

Cell therapy in Italy: who doesn't take risks...

Health authorities in Italy have allowed the treatment of several patients with stem cells to continue, despite protests from scientists who point out the lack of evidence of the effectiveness and safety of such therapy

01.04.2013
Various

Life with a chupacabra

Yaroslava Berezhnaya from Kiev grew a chupacabra in her apartment. Read exclusive details of life with, to put it mildly, an unusual pet and watch documentary photos!

01.04.2013
Biomedicine

T-cell therapy against B-cell leukemia

T-cell therapy, which consists in injecting the patient with his own T-lymphocytes reprogrammed to destroy malignant blood cells, allowed 2 children and 4 adults with severe forms of leukemia to go into remission.

01.04.2013
New in Gerontology

Social isolation shortens life

The lack of contact with family, loved ones and society as a whole increases morbidity and mortality rates among the elderly, regardless of the subjective feeling of loneliness.

29.03.2013
Biomedicine

Can Salmonella cure Alzheimer's disease?

A solution of modified lipopolysaccharide of the cell wall of the salmonella bacterium reduces the number and area of amyloid plaques in the brain of transgenic mice and improves their ability to remember.

29.03.2013
Genetic engineering

Biotransistor for biocomputers

The "transcriptor" (transistor based on transcription) is made of DNA and enzymes: RNA polymerase, which performs transcription - synthesis of RNA on a DNA template, and integrase, which regulates the "current strength" – the intensity of RNA synthesis.

29.03.2013
Other life sciences

Microflora transplantation instead of gastric bypass

Gastric bypass surgery helps gluttons lose weight. But you can do without surgery: transplanting mice with the "right" community of intestinal microorganisms led to a significant reduction in the amount of adipose tissue and rapid weight loss.

29.03.2013
Genetics

Will the state eugenics program make the Chinese smarter?

A program has been launched in China, the purpose of which is to identify the genes responsible for powerful intelligence. If successful, this will allow potential parents to choose the most "smart" ones from their own embryos.

29.03.2013
Bioethics

Who is the owner of your genes?

Experts are sounding the alarm about the loss of "genome freedom", which is stolen by patents for DNA sequences issued to researchers and companies engaged in the study of the human genome.

28.03.2013
Grants and competitions

Anniversary competition "Business of innovative technologies"

The entrepreneurial competition "Business of Innovative Technologies" (BIT), celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, begins accepting applications for participation in the main federal track of innovative projects competitions.

28.03.2013
Your health

Don't forget about work and horses

In Japan, there is an official term "karoshi" – death from excessive work. The Ministry of Labor of Japan even has an official instruction on how to define this very karoshi.

28.03.2013
Your health

Men and women get sick in different ways

Men and women are strikingly different from each other. Including the peculiarities of the course of the same diseases, as well as the effects of pharmacological drugs.

28.03.2013
Other life sciences

Three times ten

A paper sensor with a cost of 10 cents is able to determine the picomolar concentrations of biomolecules in a 10-microliter blood serum sample in 10 minutes.

27.03.2013