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Cellular technologies

Retinal transplantation: volunteers required

The RIKEN Institute and the hospital at the Center for Advanced Medicine in the Japanese city of Kobe will begin selecting patients for experimental retinal transplantation operations.

07.02.2017
Other life sciences

What doesn't kill germs makes them stronger

Trying to resist the antibiotic, E. coli begins to multiply three times faster. The ability to accelerate growth persisted even after the antibiotic was removed from the nutrient medium.

07.02.2017
Genetic engineering

New GM rice

Chinese scientists have proposed a mechanism that allows epigenetically regulating the balance between disease resistance and yield in transgenic rice.

06.02.2017
Your health

Pornhub engaged in sexprosvet

The announced range of topics is quite wide: from reproductive health and sexually transmitted diseases to sexuality and relationship building.

06.02.2017
Healthy skepticism

RAS declared homeopathy a pseudoscience

The Memorandum of the Commission on Combating Pseudoscience at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences is based on an Expert opinion compiled by an interdisciplinary working group on behalf of the Commission.

06.02.2017
Your health

Screening and early diagnosis of cancer

For each oncopathology, there are certain, the most sensitive and specific diagnostic techniques that allow detecting a malignant tumor.

06.02.2017
Biomedicine

Zika virus vaccine tested on animals

In the experiment, one dose of an RNA vaccine developed by an international group of scientists provided mice and monkeys with long-term protection against infection with the virus.

06.02.2017
Genetics

We are indigenous!

Genetic evidence has been obtained that some peoples, in particular, representatives of the Ulchi people from the Amur region, have been living in one place for almost eight thousand years.

03.02.2017
Genetic engineering

Rejuvenate and die of cancer?

Researchers have tested a new technique to rejuvenate the body of mice. However, its use leads to the formation of tumors, from which rodents die.

03.02.2017
Biotechnologies - into life

Gene and cell therapy in Kazan

A seminar was held on the territory of the Republican Clinical Hospital, which was attended by researchers of the IFMiB KFU, doctors of the university clinic and the RCB.

03.02.2017
Cellular technologies

Three-dimensional printing by weight

The method of 3D printing of complex biological structures with different types of cells in a gel medium allows you to clearly observe their morphology, mechanical and chemical properties.

03.02.2017
Biomedicine

Antitumor platelets

The new platelet delivery system for the destruction of micro-tumors remaining after surgery has been successfully tested on animals.

03.02.2017
Biomedicine

Cellular Special Forces

Scientists from the USA reprogrammed skin cells so that they could fight a brain tumor. The first successful experiment was conducted on laboratory mice.

02.02.2017
Healthy skepticism

Raw food session followed by exposure

Adherents of raw food are convinced that a raw diet can treat any disease. On account of this "teaching" a number of criminal cases and tortured patients.

02.02.2017
Other life sciences

Diagnosis of influenza by analysis of exhaled air

The developers of the prototype sensor believe that the production of such devices does not require large monetary costs, and after some improvements it may appear in pharmacies.

02.02.2017
Genetic engineering

Tuberculosis-resistant cows have been created

Scientists from the Chinese Northwest Scientific and Technical University of Agriculture and Forestry have bred transgenic cows with increased resistance to tuberculosis.

02.02.2017
Grants and competitions

ERA CoBioTech Program

The Foundation for the Promotion of Innovation has joined the new ERA CoBioTech initiative, a multilateral European program under the auspices of the new EU Horizon 2020 Framework Program.

02.02.2017