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Healthy skepticism

Crowdfunding in Russian

The Ministry of Education and Science will solve problems with venture investment, science financing and brain drain. Moreover, Russia will become an exporter, supplier of ideas and technologies for the whole world!

28.06.2016

Your health

Gale – intelligent first aid kit

If the built-in instructions are not enough, Gale can connect the host to the doctor via video link. You can order postal delivery of finished drugs using the touch screen.

28.06.2016

Healthy skepticism

"Stem cell tourism" ends with cancer

As a result of "treatment" in commercial clinics in China, Argentina and Mexico, the patient developed a tumor that covered almost the entire spinal cord, consisting mainly of foreign cells.

27.06.2016

Genetics

Error-free transcriptase

Molecular biologists from the University of Texas at Austin have created an artificial enzyme that allows you to accurately copy genetic information.

27.06.2016

Biomedicine

Multiple sclerosis will be cured by liposomes with myelin

The drug has successfully passed preclinical trials and two clinical stages, which, in case of positive results of the third stage, will allow it to be used in the treatment of patients with multiple sclerosis.

27.06.2016

Cellular technologies

Bioprinting in free fall

Scientists have not only successfully produced cardiovascular structures from adult stem cells using 3D printing, but also did it in zero gravity.

27.06.2016

Various

On the way to an artificial brain

Korean scientists intend to create a computer that simulates the human brain and at the same time is comparable to a biological analogue not only in efficiency, but also in economy.

27.06.2016

Your health

Mobile technologies for life and sports

Many companies and laboratories have put mobile technologies at the service of themselves, science and medicine. Read about what you can learn from mobile apps in this article.

27.06.2016

Prolonging youth

Interview with an American woman who rejuvenated herself by 20 years

Scientists are skeptical about Elizabeth Parrish's statements. And the correspondent of "Gazeta.En" I didn't understand what she injected herself and why she got younger by 20, and not by 30 years at once.

24.06.2016

Other life sciences

Scientists organized "cell races"

An international group of biologists conducted a "cell race" to deepen knowledge about the mechanisms of regulation of chemotaxis and stimulate work on this topic.

24.06.2016

Prolonging youth

The new geroprotector will be tested on volunteers

At the first stage of clinical trials, scientists will find out whether nicotinamide mononucleotide is safe for the human body.

24.06.2016

Prolonging youth

Long happy life

Openness to new experiences, sociability, prudence, happiness. All this is good, but how can a person's worldview affect his health and longevity?

24.06.2016

Other life sciences

Another difference between male and female brains

Under the influence of the "love hormone" oxytocin, women form a positive impression of strangers, while men, on the contrary, have a negative one.

24.06.2016

Other life sciences

A new target for the treatment of muscle degeneration

It is possible that stimulation of mitofuzin-2 activity is a potential strategy for relieving the symptoms of sarcopenia and another phenomenon of muscle tissue atrophy – cachexia.

23.06.2016

Genetics

Postmortem gene expression

The method of measuring the postmortem activity of genes can be used to create new methods for preserving donor organs, predicting the success of transplantation and determining the time of death.

23.06.2016

Genetic engineering

Analog-to-digital converters based on DNA

MIT researchers have developed synthetic gene "circuits" that implement a combination of analog (continuous) and digital (discrete) computing technologies.

23.06.2016

Genetic engineering

Clinical studies of CRISPR/Cas9 technology

The experiment on the use of chimeric T-lymphocytes for cancer immunotherapy will involve 18 people with various types of oncopathology: myeloma, sarcoma and melanoma.

23.06.2016

Note to the businessman

Moore's Law is the opposite

In the coming years, humanity will have to find an answer to the question of how, without sacrificing safety and lowering strict regulatory standards, to prevent regression in the creation of new drugs.

22.06.2016

Your health

Better let the Ambulance go once again

When a person is struck by a stroke, often neither he nor others can immediately orient themselves and figure out: it is urgent to call an ambulance, because the bill can go for minutes.

22.06.2016

Genetics

The main cause of chronic pain is named

Revealing the role of the MeSP2 protein in the regulation of pain sensations will help explain the mechanisms of chronic pain, as well as develop ways to treat it.

22.06.2016