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Various

Bacon for vegan

Geneticists from Oregon have patented a fast-growing variety of dark red edible dulce seaweed. From naturally occurring dulce, this variety inherited a pronounced taste of bacon.

17.07.2015
Various

About blood and bone marrow donation

What has the ban on paid donation led to, is absolute safety possible during blood transfusion and why is the national register of bone marrow donors so important?

17.07.2015
Your health

Train your bones!

Weight training and jumping not only burn fat and build muscle, but also reduce bone loss associated with aging.

17.07.2015
Cellular technologies

Organs from the laboratory

Depending on the purposes for which an artificial organ is obtained, it may resemble a natural organ to varying degrees. Therefore, different strategies for reproducing the work of organs and their systems are suitable for different tasks.

17.07.2015
Genetics

History with genography

Population genetics, genetic genealogy – like all sorts of fashionable topics, they are overgrown with myths. So what's really going on with the "Slavs haplogroup" and the "Genghis Khan chromosome"?

16.07.2015
Nanotechnology

Patch-vaccine: work continues

A patch with microneedles made of hyaluronic acid filled with a flu vaccine in clinical studies has shown the same effectiveness as conventional vaccines for injection.

16.07.2015
Biomedicine

The tumor can be re-educated

Restoring the activity of the APC gene returns colon cancer cells to their normal state, curing the disease and preventing its recurrence.

16.07.2015
Genetics

What do you say, Gen?

In total, the Union program "DNA Identification" has ten research areas: five in the field of medicine and the same number in criminology.

15.07.2015
Innovative Russia

Molecular modeling

Is it possible to simulate the structure and functions of molecules on a computer? And how can molecular processes be visualized?

15.07.2015
Various

I can see right through you!

For future doctors, HoloLens glasses can project various organs, for example, a heart that will "beat". Organs can be viewed in the context, and the whole body can be divided into separate organ systems and considered separately.

15.07.2015
Various

Better over... than under...

Despite the fact that the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee has not confirmed the link between immunization against human papillomavirus and the development of diseases, the European Medicines Agency will re-examine this issue.

15.07.2015
Innovative Russia

Don't look for money, look for partners

The Engineering Center of MEPhI is about the commercialization of high technologies, including a "smart" capsule for examination of the gastrointestinal tract.

15.07.2015
Genetics

Personalized Medicine Development Program

Using unique genetic information, it is possible to determine how successful the use of a particular medication will be for each individual patient and what side effects may be from their use.

15.07.2015
Other life sciences

Brainet – three brains working together

Neurophysiologists from Duke University have combined the brains of three monkeys into a "brainet" – a distributed system that allows them to synchronize efforts to achieve results without using direct communication.

14.07.2015
Genetics

Two mutations causing diabetes and obesity have been found

One of them is found in the genome of about a million Americans. The second, less dangerous mutation is represented in the genomes of 7% of African Americans. And these are not the first and not the last mutations that make excess calories especially dangerous.

14.07.2015
Various

The killer in the white coat

An American oncogematologist, who prescribed chemotherapy to patients without medical necessity, received a 45-year prison sentence.

14.07.2015
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy for brain cancer: new successes

The result of the new method of gene therapy using nanoparticles as carriers of the therapeutic gene was a reduction in the size of tumors and a significant increase in the survival rate of animals.

14.07.2015
Your health

It's better to be healthy and rich…

In patients with one of the three risk factors (diabetes, heart attack or stroke), the probability of early death is 2 times higher compared to those without these diseases, in patients with two diseases the risk is 4 times higher, with three – 8.

14.07.2015
Genetics

Pharmacogenomics is already on the threshold of clinics

Soon, everyone will be able to store data about their genome on a medium whose size will be comparable to the size of a credit card. At the same time, doctors will be able to predict the effectiveness of treatment by studying the patient's genome.

13.07.2015