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Cellular technologies

A golden cyborg stingray has been created

The polymer skin of a 16-millimeter "stingray" weighing 10 g is fixed on a skeleton made of gold wire and covered with about 200 thousand heart muscle cells taken from the body of rats.

11.07.2016

Grants and competitions

GenerationS-2016 has started

On July 7, the official launch of the largest accelerator of technological projects in Russia and Eastern Europe, GenerationS-2016, took place in Moscow.

08.07.2016

Genetics

How paternal mitochondria disappear

Geneticists have found out why mitochondrial DNA is usually inherited from the maternal line – this fundamental question has occupied researchers for more than half a century.

08.07.2016

Other life sciences

How to help helpers?

Scientists from the Institute of Allergy and Immunology in La Jolla (USA) have discovered a protein from the cytokine group that plays a crucial role in the maturation of follicular T-helpers.

08.07.2016

Genetic engineering

DNA drives: another record

Microsoft employees, together with scientists from the University of Washington, have saved more than 200 megabytes of data in the form of nucleic acid.

08.07.2016

Various

Cannabis instead of opiates

The legalization of medical marijuana has the greatest impact on the consumption of prescription painkillers, including opioids.

08.07.2016

Healthy skepticism

Counterfeits in the Swiss grocery market

Surprisingly, people also live in Switzerland. Some of them are engaged in "business" and want to reduce costs in all legal and not very ways in order to maximize profits.

07.07.2016

Cellular technologies

Satellite cells will help with burns

In people with severe burns that lead to deep atrophy of skeletal muscles, their regeneration is stimulated by the activation of satellite cells.

07.07.2016

Other life sciences

Neutrophils weave a web

The DNA network for catching and destroying bacteria appears with the participation of many neutrophils, so the question arises how they interact with each other.

07.07.2016

Various

Retired Robots

Today's discussion about the forks of the pension system, the deficit of the pension budget and the fate of the funded pension completely loses its meaning if you look 50 years ahead.

07.07.2016

New in Gerontology

Mitochondrial genes and aging

Differences in the work of mitochondria, caused not by diseases and pathologies, but by variations in the structure of genes, directly affect the rate of aging of the body.

07.07.2016

Other life sciences

Pleasure with benefits

Israeli scientists have found that stimulating the brain's pleasure center enhances the immune response in mice. This may explain the effectiveness of placebo in the treatment of infections.

06.07.2016

Other life sciences

Soft exoskeletons

Pneumatic actuators can be used as exoskeleton muscles. They can apply the same efforts as electric motors, only they will weigh several times less.

06.07.2016

Your health

Pasta makes you lose weight. But only in Italy :(

Italian scientists have come to the conclusion that the use of pasta, contrary to popular belief, does not increase, but reduces BMI and has a beneficial effect on other metabolic parameters.

06.07.2016

Biomedicine

Encemab is ready for clinical trials

Preclinical studies of the drug for tick-borne encephalitis have shown that it is hundreds of times more effective than human serum immunoglobulin, completely non-toxic and safe.

06.07.2016

Other life sciences

The Future of medicine

An excerpt from the book by Professor of genomics Eric Topol about individual predictions of diseases, artificial intelligence in modern medicine and forecasts of epidemics.

06.07.2016

Other life sciences

Itaconate is a potential anti–inflammatory

Scientists from the USA, Canada, Germany and Russia have found a substance capable of suppressing the excessive activity of macrophages – one of the varieties of cells of the immune system.

05.07.2016

Nanotechnology

"Shaggy" nanospheres for cancer treatment

The advantage of boron nitride nanospheres lies in their morphology: inside there is a cavity with a diameter of up to 90 nm with a wall thickness of 10 nm, and the outer surface is covered with villi.

05.07.2016

Other life sciences

Is death so irreversible?

The cells in the dead body continue to work actively, desperately trying to survive. This article will tell you about the thanatotranscriptome and whether Charon transports in both directions.

05.07.2016

Nanotechnology

Programmable vaccines

Vaccines made of RNA and dendrimer nanoparticles can be developed within a week in response to any epidemic. In experiments on mice, 100% immunity to Ebola, swine flu and toxoplasma was obtained.

05.07.2016