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- English version
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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
Biomedicine
Phage therapy
A return to phage therapy on a new scientific basis is also considered as an addition and alternative to existing antibiotics.
15.09.2017
Nanotechnology
"Paper" test for tuberculosis
The researchers suggest using a simple test: it is enough for the patient to moisten a paper strip with saliva, which will then change color.
15.09.2017
Other life sciences
Microbes interfere with cancer treatment
Scientists have discovered that the bacteria that often accompany pancreatic cancer allow the tumor to survive by destroying chemotherapy drugs.
15.09.2017
Healthy skepticism
The Nobel Prize-2017
At Harvard University, the authors of studies that first make you laugh, and then make you think, have received the Nobel Prizes for the 27th time.
15.09.2017
Nanotechnology
One injection instead of several
Depending on the composition, polymer microcapsules are destroyed at different times, releasing the next dose of the drug inside the patient's body.
15.09.2017
Other life sciences
Again, the microflora is to blame
Two articles in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences linked the initiation of multiple sclerosis with the gut microbiota.
15.09.2017
Nanotechnology
Nanoclader
In 24 hours, one robot successfully sorted six DNA molecules on a 58×58 nm substrate with fluorescent labels of two colors "sewn" to them.
15.09.2017
Various
Appetite and stress
A large-scale project to study eating behavior has shown that overeating or malnutrition in response to negative emotions is not genetically fixed.
15.09.2017
Grants and competitions
Helsnet Competition
Within the framework of the largest startup accelerator GenerationS from RVC, a nomination in the field of medical services and medicines was established.
15.09.2017
Grants and competitions
Biotechnologies and genomics in agriculture
The selection of projects in the nomination "Biotechnologies and genomics in the Agro-industrial complex" of the GenerationS-2017 startup accelerator has begun.
15.09.2017
Grants and competitions
Quality of Life – 2017
A competitive selection of innovative projects in the field of medical technologies that improve the quality of life "Quality of Life – 2017" has been announced.
15.09.2017
Your health
Caries does not depend on genes
"Good" heredity is powerless against the growth of bacteria that cause caries. Their activities are more influenced by environmental factors.
14.09.2017
Other life sciences
Nice correlation
For people who can boast of sexual activity in adulthood and old age, intellectual difficulties are less characteristic.
14.09.2017