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Cellular technologies

Patch against ischemia

A patch of cardiac stromal cells with artificial microvessels improves myocardial recovery after a heart attack in rats and pigs.

02.11.2020

Your health

The Benefits of Ramadan

Interval fasting during Muslim fasting contributed to the prevention of cancer, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and other diseases.

02.11.2020

Your health

Who can I trust?

Oncologist-chemotherapist, program director of the Higher School of Oncology – on how to search for reliable information for people without medical education.

02.11.2020

Other life sciences

Workaround

Instead of implanting electrodes into the brain for neurointerface, stents with electrodes inserted into blood vessels can be used.

02.11.2020

Biomedicine

An unexpected discovery

Mice with a lot of bacteria secreting tryptophan and propionate in their intestines suffered a lethal dose of radiation without consequences.

02.11.2020

Innovative Russia

IPO of RUSNANO's "daughter"

Atea Pharmaceuticals, which is part of the portfolio of RosnanoMedInvest LLC, conducted an initial public offering on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

02.11.2020

Nanotechnology

Fast-healing implants

Perm Polytechnic University has created implants made of titanium alloys, which take root several times faster than analogues.

30.10.2020

Other life sciences

Anti-aging terpenoids?

Terpenoids, a group of secondary metabolites of higher plants, can be considered one of the contenders for the role of geroprotectors.

30.10.2020

Cellular technologies

Coronavirus in an organoid

Scientists have grown model alveoli from human lung stem cells. They are suitable for studying coronavirus infection.

30.10.2020

Other life sciences

Ageless satellite cells

A subgroup of stem cells retains the ability to regenerate skeletal muscles until old age.

29.10.2020

Other life sciences

Long-lived slave owners

The abducted cubs of naked diggers do not reproduce and work all their lives for individuals who are not related to them.

29.10.2020

Genetic engineering

Yeast vs. clostridium

GM yeast is capable of producing antibodies that neutralize clostridium toxins and rid experimental mice of dangerous enterocolitis.

29.10.2020

Other life sciences

Selection of optimal treatment

DrugCell artificial intelligence system predicts possible reactions of cancer cells to treatment based on detailed tumor data.

29.10.2020

Biomedicine

Block the way for metastases

German researchers have discovered an antibody that causes the death of lymphatic vessels in malignant tumors of mice.

29.10.2020

Cellular technologies

Lung diseases in vitro

Respiratory tract stem cells were grown from the patients' blood cells. In the future, it will help cure COVID-19, asthma, cystic fibrosis.

28.10.2020

Biomedicine

Individual recipe

Scientists have identified blood biomarkers that can predict a patient's reaction to drugs for arthritis.

28.10.2020

Other life sciences

Safe radiotherapy

FLASH-RT therapy allows you to deliver the same dose of radiation as usual, but in just tenths of a second due to high power.

28.10.2020

Other life sciences

Brain, heal yourself

A newly discovered subtype of immature neutrophils can stop the death of neurons and even restore connections between them.

28.10.2020

Genetics

Keep your testicles in the cold

American scientists, when heating C.elegans nematodes, found a significant increase in the frequency of DNA damage in their spermatocytes.

28.10.2020

Biomedicine

Instead of transplantation

Exposure to certain liver cells and the intestinal microbiome can improve the condition of acute liver failure.

28.10.2020