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The Breakthrough Prize – 2021

The Breakthrough Awards Foundation, established by Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg, announced the new winners of the award.

14.09.2020
Exhibitions and conferences

Science of the XXI century

The 24th International Pushchina School‑Conference of Young Scientists "Biology – Science of the XXI century" will be held on October 5-7, 2020.

14.09.2020
Biomedicine

Make cancer starve

The new drug may improve the quality and life expectancy of patients with pancreatic cancer.

11.09.2020
New in Gerontology

Mosaic aging

A team of scientists has determined the rate at which telomeres are shortened in cells from different types of human tissues.

11.09.2020
Biomedicine

Not worse than antibodies

The protein developed with the help of a computer is tightly connected to the thorny processes of the coronavirus and prevents it from infecting cells.

11.09.2020
Biomedicine

From smallpox to coronavirus

There are about 100 registered vaccines for 30 diseases. Half of them are from viral infections, the second – from bacterial.

11.09.2020
Nanotechnology

Plastic instead of chemotherapy

The "death net" kills cancer cells in culture in an average of four hours and does not affect healthy cells.

11.09.2020
Other life sciences

Brain and diabetes: new data

Under the influence of fibroblast growth factor 1, the hypothalamus restores normal blood sugar levels in rodents with diabetes.

10.09.2020
Genetics

RNA on membranes

RNA molecules were found on the surface of human cells for the first time. Scientists believe that they play an important role in intercellular interactions.

10.09.2020
Various

A toy for an old lady

Testing of Pepper robots in a British nursing home has shown that communicating with them improves mood and mental health.

10.09.2020
New in Gerontology

Zones of youth in the DNA

Convincing evidence has been found that the mechanism of aging lies at the intersection of the genome and epigenome.

09.09.2020
Genetic engineering

Optogenetics instead of chemicals

The new technology can be of great importance not only for the field of biotechnology, but also for other fundamental research.

09.09.2020
Controversial

The fuss around Sputnik

An international group of researchers has published a letter expressing concern about the results of the Sputnik-V vaccine trials.

09.09.2020
Various

A pandemic six months later

Interview with Irina Yakutenko, biologist, scientific journalist, author of the forthcoming book "The Virus that broke the Planet".

09.09.2020
Prolonging youth

Hunger or cold?

Lowering body temperature can increase life expectancy regardless of calorie restriction.

09.09.2020
Your health

Dangerous cholinolytics

Widely used cholinolytic agents increase the likelihood of Alzheimer's disease in elderly people with risk factors.

08.09.2020
Genetic engineering

They take such people as astronauts

The loss of bone and muscle mass in mice who lived on the ISS for a month was prevented by the myostatin protein inhibitor.

08.09.2020
Nanotechnology

Origami from twisted DNA

Chinese and American scientists have created a number of self-assembling DNA structures ranging in size from a micron to a millimeter.

08.09.2020