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Other life sciences

Owners of Androids, help proteomics!

The "Power Sleep" program allows you to use the computing power of mobile phones to process the SIMAP database on the similarity of different types of proteins in order to use the patterns found in various fields of medicine.

20.02.2014
Prolonging youth

The brain needs to be walked daily

Walking promenades increase the size of certain areas of the brain associated with higher cognitive functions and help slow down age-related changes in gray matter.

19.02.2014
Various

Hwang Woo Suk is not drowning

The discredited famous Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk received a patent in the United States for obtaining stem cells by the very method he was convicted of falsifying. Today he clones dogs and dreams of reviving a mammoth.

19.02.2014
Various

Robots for the elderly

In Denmark, a program of assistance to elderly citizens is being implemented at public expense, including their maintenance in nursing homes. And to reduce the costs of this program without reducing the quality, robots are involved.

19.02.2014
Genetics

Gene mixing

An interactive map of the genetic history of the world reveals the secrets of the influence of major historical events on the gene pool of populations.

18.02.2014
Various

Shall we chip in to fight against charlatans in medicine?

The Moscow laboratory "Esculab" (SQLab) has been systematically studying medical charlatans since 2011. Now the laboratory staff decided to summarize their experience in a popular science publication and turned to the now popular crowdfunding experience.

18.02.2014
Cellular technologies

The first bioengineered lungs

American scientists have made a breakthrough in medicine, which in the future may lead to a revolution in transplantology: for the first time, human lungs were grown in the laboratory.

18.02.2014
Genetics

DNA sequencing: cheap or accurate?

A promising method of DNA sequencing based on stretching DNA through a nanopore has not fully justified itself. The data obtained with its help still has to be checked by other sequencing machines.

18.02.2014
Prolonging youth

Anti-aging treatments for muscle stem cells

Aged muscle stem cells can be extracted from the body, rejuvenated in the laboratory and returned back – and after that, almost youthful strength will return to the old muscles.

18.02.2014
Other life sciences

GDNF is a new target for the treatment of parkinsonism

Endogenous neurotrophic factors produced by the body itself, including glial neurotrophic factor (GDNF), contribute to the survival of nerve cells in neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease.

18.02.2014
Grants and competitions

Competition for developers of cancer treatment methods

Varian Start-Up Challenge is a competition for Russian high–tech startup projects focused on the development of effective technological solutions in the field of radiation therapy and other cancer treatment methods.

17.02.2014
Biomedicine

Poisoned bait for glioblastoma

With the help of polymer-synthetic imitation of nerves and blood vessels, glioblastoma cells can be forced to "emigrate" from the brain into a special container filled with cyclopamine gel, toxic to cancer cells.

17.02.2014
Genetics

Analysis of encrypted genomes

Microsoft cryptologists have developed an algorithm for encrypting DNA sequences, which allows them to be analyzed by traditional bioinformatic methods and at the same time does not compromise the owner of the genome.

17.02.2014
Various

A middle-aged genius

Thanks to the discovery of American economists, the concept of "middle age" may become a thing of the past forever. It will be replaced by another, more pleasant one – the "age of genius". It is between the ages of 30 and 40 that people come up with ingenious inventions and make amazing discoveries.

17.02.2014
Cellular technologies

Cardiomyocytes instead of scars on the heart

Fibrin gel contributes to the successful transformation of fibroblasts that form scars on the heart muscle after a heart attack into spontaneously contracting cardiomyocytes.

14.02.2014
Cellular technologies

Platelets from stem cells

Researchers from Japan have proposed a new way to obtain platelets without using donated blood.

14.02.2014
Other life sciences

Sometimes soft is better than hard

The body's reaction to a foreign body depends not only on its chemical properties, but also on its physical ones. An inflammatory reaction to the implant may occur due to the fact that it is tougher than the surrounding tissues.

14.02.2014
Bioethics

The right to die

The law granting the right to euthanasia to terminally ill children has split Belgian society.

14.02.2014