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Genetics

Social epigenetics

The level of activity of the gene encoding the hormone oxytocin can have a profound effect on the social behavior of humans and other mammals.

22.06.2016
Other life sciences

Investing in early cancer diagnosis

Moscow Seed Fund together with the RVC Biofund invested 16 million rubles in the RTM Diagnostics project for the development and implementation of new radiothermometry technologies.

22.06.2016
Bioethics

Moral problems of transplantology

Philosopher Elena Bryzgalina – about open issues of transplantology, the organization of dying and the mechanisms of obtaining donor organs.

21.06.2016
Nanotechnology

The thrombus will be dissolved by magnetic nanoparticles

The enzyme in the composite does not lose its therapeutic properties even with repeated use, and in terms of the rate of dissolution of the thrombus, the new composite exceeds unprotected enzymes by thousands of times.

21.06.2016
Other life sciences

Peristaltic pump for the aorta

When current pulses are applied to the device by magnetic induction, its rings contract, making peristaltic movements. This helps to remove blood into the aorta, unloading the myocardium.

21.06.2016
Nanotechnology

Self - assembling protein icosahedron

Such molecules, whose shape corresponds to the shells of many viruses, can be used as a transport for the delivery of drugs and other active substances to cancer cells.

21.06.2016
Cellular technologies

Parthenogenetic cells against Parkinson's disease

Transplantation of neural stem cells derived from human parthenotogenetic cells to primates with Parkinson's disease facilitated the clinical parameters of the disease.

20.06.2016
Genetic engineering

"Gene drive" can be localized

Biologists from Harvard University and MIT have developed a way to control the spread of artificial mutations in wild populations of animals and bacteria.

20.06.2016
Genetics

Why are we different?

Most of our differences depend on which specific set of gene variants we received from our parents, and on how well and harmoniously different groups of alleles can work.

20.06.2016
Your health

Count your spermatozoa

Specialists from Sandstone Diagnostics have developed a special device that will help men count the number of sperm at home, not in the laboratory.

20.06.2016
Cellular technologies

Bioengineered bones for maxillofacial surgery

A group of scientists from Columbia University managed to grow fragments of jaws that ideally replaced the removed 6-centimeter sections with full restoration of chewing function.

20.06.2016
Innovative Russia

Do you want milk without a cow

There are many inventors in Russia, but few innovators – this is exactly the problem of technological growth, says MIT professor Lauren Graham.

20.06.2016
Genetic engineering

Marmosets-parkinsonics

Genetically modified monkeys from the igrunkov family will be used to study the disease itself and find an effective way to combat it.

17.06.2016
Exhibitions and conferences

The second International Forum of ARCOM

The American-Russian Chamber of Commerce of Minnesota (ARCOM) invites you to take part in the international (trans-Atlantic) business and innovation forum.

17.06.2016
Your health

Ultrasound against brain cancer: first results

Scientists have repeatedly investigated the interaction of ultrasound and chemotherapy in brain cancer, but the results of testing the device on humans have not been known to date.

17.06.2016
Other life sciences

Microbiota and obesity

Obesity is associated with changes in the microbiota – the community of microbes in the gut. But the mechanism of this process is not fully understood.

17.06.2016
Genetics

The evolutionary role of tumors

Lecture by Andrey Kozlov, Doctor of Biological Sciences, devoted to the study of evolutionarily new genes of cancer tumors.

16.06.2016