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Nanotechnology

A new device for glucose control

Simple, easy and effective, it detects blood glucose without injections by analyzing the chemical composition of tears or sweat.

26.01.2018
Other life sciences

Another heart on a chip

The startup Tara Biosystems has grown a "heart on a chip", which can reduce the time of drug testing to one year.

26.01.2018
Nanotechnology

Life-saving microbubbles

A stable source of oxygen for first aid is being tested, which is administered intravenously. The excess is capable of self-destruction.

26.01.2018
Cloning

The first "real" primate clones

Macaques cloned using the "Dolly sheep method" were born at the Institute of Neurobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

26.01.2018
Various

The system needs to be changed

A system focused on the treatment of one disease in one patient needs to be reorganized and resources prepared for its implementation.

26.01.2018
Biomedicine

Live vaccine

The influenza virus with increased sensitivity to interferon protected experimental animals, including from unrelated wild-type strains.

26.01.2018
Other life sciences

The power of thought

The exoskeleton of the hand is able to train brain activity and include those parts of the brain that were not previously responsible for movements in this hand.

26.01.2018
Note to the businessman

Biotech Stars

Buying small biotech startups means growth for the entire industry, but will pharmaceutical companies invest more actively in such enterprises?

24.01.2018
Bioethics

Sell DNA

A number of companies offer to buy personal genetic information in order to then sell it for medical research.

23.01.2018
Other life sciences

Neurochemical origin of man

Humans differ from other primates in large amounts of dopamine, a neurotransmitter important for establishing cooperation.

23.01.2018
Various

Ahead of the whole planet

China may be ahead of the United States in the use of genome editing technologies originally developed in the West.

23.01.2018
Other life sciences

Artificial doctor's assistant

Scientists have started developing a new neural network to search for manifestations of various diseases in medical images.

23.01.2018
Your health

Only without sugar!

The use of 100% fruit juices, even very sweet ones, does not have any significant effects on insulin and glucose indicators.

23.01.2018
Biomedicine

Eight in one

It has become possible to screen eight of the most common types of cancer early with a single blood test.

23.01.2018
Nanotechnology

Nanorobots with electric drive

The use of electricity to move nanorobots accelerated the assembly of complex molecules by 100,000 times.

23.01.2018
Cellular technologies

Stem cells with inlay

Platelet vesicles increase the ability of stem cells to move to the infarction zone and stay there.

22.01.2018
Cellular technologies

One gene is enough

To turn "adult" cells into stem cells, it was enough to activate a single "Yamanaki factor" – Sox2 or Oct4.

22.01.2018