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Genetics

Heredity versus environment

A large–scale meta–analysis (for 14.5 million pairs of twins) showed that, on average, each trait or disorder is caused by genes and environment approximately equally (49% of the variability is due to genes, about 51% is due to environment and/or measurement errors).

22.06.2015
Various

A micro robot with delicate tentacles

With the help of silicone manipulators, tiny medical robots will be able to work with the thinnest and most fragile parts of the human body without deforming them or causing any damage to them.

22.06.2015
Note to the businessman

St. Petersburg Pharmaceutical cluster: good, but not enough

The desire to participate in public procurement forces foreign pharmaceutical giants to enter the St. Petersburg market. But it still won't help to achieve the import substitution target set by the government, experts say.

22.06.2015
Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology in medicine: Part 1

Modern knowledge about the behavior of materials at the "nano" level is compared with the tip of the iceberg and the embryonic stage. Active research in this area is only a few decades old.

20.06.2015
Prolonging youth

Fast for your health

A regular five-day diet, imitating fasting, not only significantly reduces the likelihood of cancer, diabetes and other diseases, but also prolongs life.

19.06.2015
Biomedicine

The next HIV vaccine was tested on animals

Virologists have taken a big step towards creating a "vaccination" against HIV, successfully teaching the body of mice, rabbits and some species of monkeys to produce antibodies capable of neutralizing a large number of different strains of the immunodeficiency virus.

19.06.2015
Various

Adoption at the stage of several dozen cells

Unused embryos are a common "by–product" of in vitro fertilization procedures. Currently, several organizations in the United States are trying to introduce the practice of "adoption into the family" of such embryos.

19.06.2015
Other life sciences

The age of parents and the risk of autism in children

The results of the largest study showed that a large age difference between parents increases the risk of developing autism in children, and confirmed the fact that the older the parents, the higher the risk of having a child with autism.

19.06.2015
Various

Save from leukemia

In some cases, the only way to save is bone marrow transplantation, but there are only 35 thousand donors in Russia. In Germany, for comparison, six million.

19.06.2015
Other life sciences

On the way to telepathy

Further development of the ‘Brain-to-Text’ technology can be the first step towards creating systems of mental control of computers and other equipment, new technologies of communication between people and much more.

19.06.2015
Biomedicine

Mice were protected from chlamydia

The new vaccine is Chlamydia trachomatis inactivated with ultraviolet light and nanoparticles with an adjuvant, which binds to the causative agent of infection. An experiment on mice showed that such a vaccine works effectively.

19.06.2015
Biomedicine

What technologies will defeat cancer?

There are 2.5 thousand medicinal molecules with a point effect under consideration by regulatory authorities in the world. 10-15 similar drugs are registered annually. We are facing an era of complete drug treatment of cancer.

18.06.2015
Grants and competitions

The Mikhail Lomonosov program announces another competition

The Moscow representative office of DAAD announces the acceptance of applications for research scholarships under the joint program "Mikhail Lomonosov" for 2016-2017 with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

18.06.2015
Healthy skepticism

AIDS does not kill, but HIV dissidents do

Without adequate treatment, the average twenty-year-old infected with HIV will die in about 10 years. With modern antiretroviral therapy, he will live to 69.

18.06.2015
Biomedicine

Stimulator of tissue regeneration

Experiments on animal models have demonstrated the ability of the new drug to significantly accelerate the recovery of damage to the colon, liver and bone marrow, and possibly other tissues.

18.06.2015
Other life sciences

The Mystery of Prions

Researchers face a very difficult task, which will not only help to find a cure for serious diseases, but also, perhaps, help to discover the secret of longevity. To do this, you need only one thing – to understand prions.

18.06.2015
Cellular technologies

The mammary gland is another "organ in a test tube"

The authors of the study believe that such organoids will help in studying the functions of normal breast stem cells and clarify the mechanisms of the occurrence of malignant neoplasms in the organ.

18.06.2015
Innovative Russia

Pharma 2020: results and prospects

During the implementation of the state program "Pharma-2020", more than 30 domestic companies have been modernized.

18.06.2015