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Coming soon on screen: "The Immortalists"

In the new film, two eccentric researchers are trying to achieve eternal youth. As they struggle with their own aging and suffer the loss of loved ones, their scientific search turns into a personal mission.

03.03.2014
Other life sciences

How to see small biomolecules in a living cell

Scientists from Columbia University have developed a technology for monitoring the movement of low-molecular substances in cells, whose size does not allow the use of conventional fluorescent labels.

03.03.2014
Various

Science Slam in "Moscow Hall"

On February 2, Science Slam was held in Moscow on the stage of the Moscow Hall club, a popular science event of a new format that is still gaining popularity in Russia.

03.03.2014
Other life sciences

In situ RNA sequencing

Biologists led by renowned geneticist George Church have created a method of in situ RNA sequencing ("on the spot"), which allows you to map the expression of thousands of genes on a scale from the subcellular level to the whole brain or embryo.

03.03.2014
Nanotechnology

Replacement ceramics

Last year, work on the project was completed, which resulted in a unique development for Russia – prosthetics of small joints (fingers and toes) made of nanoceramics.

28.02.2014
Cellular technologies

Cell therapy restored intervertebral discs

As international phase II clinical studies have shown, one injection of stem cells into degenerating intervertebral discs reduces back pain for at least 12 months.

28.02.2014
Genetic engineering

GMOs in Russia: educational program for senators

Over the past 10 years, more than 1.5 thousand studies on the safety of GMOs have been published, and no conclusions have been made about their toxicity or any negative properties. Russian senators don't want to know.

28.02.2014
New in Gerontology

The relationship between aging and sleep quality is revealed

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered the intersection between the signaling cascades of the aging process and the body's response to cellular stress, which, among other things, causes senile sleep disorders. Perhaps the effect on the corresponding molecular mechanisms will help the elderly suffering from insomnia.

27.02.2014
Other life sciences

Death Test

Estonian and Finnish doctors have learned to find out from a blood test whether a person will die in the next five years or not. But experts cannot yet say from which disease he will die, and it is not very clear what to do with such information.

27.02.2014
Cellular technologies

Will astrocytes help with spinal cord injury?

For the spinal cord, the same trick that has been done for a long time for the brain has been repeated: spinal neurons were obtained from auxiliary cells of nervous tissue – astrocytes.

27.02.2014
Your health

Who is recommended preventive ovariectomy?

Preventive removal of the ovaries (preventive ovariectomy) reduces the risk of malignant neoplasms by 80% and the risk of premature death by 77% in carriers of oncogenic mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.

27.02.2014
Various

Nothing that wounded, he will not die…

Russian scientists have created a special tourniquet for the military, capable of using ultrasound to stop internal bleeding in the field without the risk of complications. There are no analogues of such protection in the world yet.

26.02.2014
Biomedicine

Protease inhibitors against antibiotic resistance

Low molecular weight inhibitors disrupt the order of amino acids necessary for the coupling of bacterial protease ClpP subunits, or convert the amino acid responsible for its work into another. Both variants lead to a loss of protease activity.

26.02.2014
Other life sciences

The main thing is that the suit should sit

A woman paralyzed from the waist down was able to give up a wheelchair and take an independent walk thanks to a robotic exoskeleton, created for the first time by individual measurements on a 3-D printer.

26.02.2014
Healthy skepticism

Is Echinacea useless?

Meta-analysis of the results of 24 clinical trials did not reveal significant benefits from the use of dietary supplements based on echinacea as a means of prevention and treatment of acute respiratory viral infections.

25.02.2014