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Nanotechnology

Plug the firefly into the socket

Nanorods that mimic the work of the luciferin pigment and the luciferase enzyme in the body of a firefly allow you to create a lighting system that will be much more efficient than LED lamps.

19.06.2012
Other life sciences

Cloud bioinformatics for "-omics"

The questions of where to store, how to store and how to provide access to the data that proteomics, genomics, microbiomics and other so-called "-omics" allow bioinformatic cloud technologies to answer.

19.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Corneal endothelium: cell therapy instead of transplantation

The work of Japanese scientists gives hope for the development of new methods of treating not only corneal endothelial dysfunction – the main cause of severe visual impairment, but also a number of other pathologies.

18.06.2012
Various

Move Grandma across the street!

76% of elderly men and 85% of elderly women are not able to cross the road in time for a green traffic light.

18.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Fetal stem cells against stroke

A stroke treatment method using a stem cell line isolated from the brain of a 12-week-old fetus has shown promising results in a small-scale clinical trial.

18.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Cell Reprogramming for Regenerative Medicine (3)

Human diseases can be considered as the total result of genetic, external and epigenetic factors, which should be taken into account when modeling diseases in vitro using reprogrammed cells.

15.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Cell Reprogramming for Regenerative Medicine (1)

The researchers hope that the differentiation of a patient's own iPSCs into cells responsible for the development of a particular disease will become a powerful new tool for theoretical biomedicine and clinical practice.

15.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Cell therapy of neurological diseases

Cell therapy shows great promise in the treatment of neurological diseases, but today such methods of treatment can only be resorted to within the framework of clinical studies.

15.06.2012
Bioethics

Every blood donor is a hero

For the World Blood Donor Day 2012 campaign, the theme "Every blood donor is a hero" was chosen, which is based on the idea that each of us can become a hero if we donate our blood.

14.06.2012
Various

Happiness Index

The British non-governmental organization New Economics Foundation has published the World Happiness Index. Do you want to calculate how happy you are personally and compare the results with the average values?

14.06.2012
Other life sciences

"Human microbiome": first results

The results of the Human Microbiome project show that our biological characteristics depend on the microbial population much more than previously thought.

14.06.2012
Biomedicine

Anti-cancer virus hitchhiking

Hiding "on the back" of red blood cells, the virus is not destroyed by the immune system, affects only cancer cells and stimulates an immune attack on infected and uninfected tumor cells and metastases.

14.06.2012
Genetics

Genomics: a time of great expectations

Enthusiasts of individual genomics promise a lot of opportunities to predict the risks of developing diseases and treatment features. But they are silent about the fact that this connection itself is not proven at all for many diseases.

14.06.2012
Genetic engineering

A probiotic for cancer prevention?

American biologists modified the genome of the lactic acid Bacillus Lactobacillus acidophilus in such a way that this bacterium began to destroy polyps – precancerous formations in the colon of mice.

13.06.2012