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Nanotechnology

The best of the existing

Artificial cells can produce protein, communicate with neighbors and change behavior depending on chemical signals.

21.11.2018
Your health

Sleep off the weekend?

Every hour of the difference between waking up on weekdays and weekends increases the likelihood of strokes and heart attacks by 11 percent.

21.11.2018
Genetic engineering

The heyday after the disaster

The Ministry of Education and Science asks the Russian people for about $ 3 billion for the development of genetic engineering prohibited by law.

21.11.2018
Cellular technologies

EEG of organoids

Brain organoids showed electrical activity remarkably similar to the brain activity of a premature baby.

21.11.2018
Other life sciences

Superscanner

The combination of positron emission and computed tomography provides a three-dimensional picture of the entire human body in a few seconds.

20.11.2018
Your health

Experiments on yourself

Cardiologist Yaroslav Ashikhmin on why it is dangerous to try to control the biochemistry of your body manually.

20.11.2018
Biomedicine

Swallow the asterisk

Scientists have tested for the first time on humans an experimental "star" system containing a weekly dose of medication in one capsule.

20.11.2018
Bioethics

Mixed reality of dystopias

Is the progress of technology ahead of our ethics and will the values formed by the XX century withstand the challenges of the new time?

20.11.2018
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of Joubert syndrome

Using artificial DNA, scientists have blocked the work of a mutant gene in mice with hereditary renal insufficiency.

20.11.2018
Other life sciences

Minutes instead of months

BioJupies automatically performs statistical analysis of the "map of working genes" and allows you to exchange this information with colleagues.

20.11.2018
New in Gerontology

Squirrel on guard of youth

Klotho protein performs the function of a guardian protecting the brain from the effects of the peripheral immune system.

19.11.2018
Nanotechnology

Analyzes: fast and cheap

The cheap portable enVision platform provides qualitative and quantitative detection of various diseases.

19.11.2018
Various

A moratorium on gene drive?

A temporary ban on such experiments will be the main topic of the next meeting of the participants of the UN Convention on Biodiversity.

19.11.2018
Other life sciences

Xenografts on the threshold

The first clinical studies on the transplantation of organs of genetically modified pigs to humans will start in the near future.

19.11.2018
Nanotechnology

Oxygen for the tumor

Understanding how nanoparticles produce oxygen when illuminated by a laser will increase their effectiveness in the treatment of cancer.

19.11.2018