Nanotechnology
Neurotransmitter
The new "transistor neuron" operates at speeds from 0.01 to 15 Hz, which will allow in the future to create a number of high-speed neuromorphic hardware based on it.
05.07.2017- English version
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Healthy skepticism
Tolerasm grows stronger
Perhaps, uterus transplantation to transsexuals, gays and even heterosexual (I can't call them normal) men will be at the state expense.
04.07.2017
Biotechnologies - into life
Bigfarma-2017, the first half of the year
We present to your attention the traditional semi-annual review of the most important news of the pharmaceutical industry and medical biotech, prepared by expert Ilya Yasny.
04.07.2017
New in Gerontology
Gait speed will help predict dementia
A group of scientists from the USA has shown that slowing down gait in combination with a decrease in the gray matter of the hippocampus allows predicting dementia.
04.07.2017
New in Gerontology
A common enemy
Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases have different risk factors and clinical manifestations, but the formation of pathological accumulations of proteins in both cases stimulates the same enzyme.
04.07.2017
Genetics
Beta blockers alter gene expression
Popular antiarrhythmic drugs are able to fight potentially dangerous genetic changes associated with cardiovascular diseases.
04.07.2017
Biomedicine
Two-faced STING
The STING protein, a promising model of cancer immunotherapy, can lead to the death of T-lymphocytes. This side effect can be used to treat autoimmune diseases.
04.07.2017
Genetics
RNA instead of telomerase
In the absence of telomerase, non-coding TERRA RNAs can restore shortened yeast telomeres. They are found not only in yeast, but also in other organisms, including humans.
03.07.2017
Various
Hacker attack on the brain
It's time to start thinking about how developments in the field of neuroprosthetics and brain-machine interfaces can face abuse and how to protect yourself from it.
03.07.2017
Your health
Beer with probiotic
Soon beer lovers may have an excuse to their wife: they say, I didn't want to drink, but what to do is necessary for health, I had to force myself.
03.07.2017
Other life sciences
Antiretroviral retrovirus
Antigens of endogenous HERV-K retroviruses, released in an infected T-cell of the immune system, reduce the number and activity of HIV copies produced by it.
03.07.2017
Controversial
$100,000 for elephant mammoth
The American billionaire and one of the founders of the PayPal payment system, Peter Thiel, invested $ 100,000 in the work of the laboratory of Harvard geneticist George Church.
03.07.2017
Other life sciences
Argus in Russia
Scientists and doctors from the Scientific and Clinical Center of Otorhinolaryngology of the FMBA of Russia conducted the first operation in the history of Russia to implant a cyberset in the eye of a blind patient.
03.07.2017
Theories of aging
Why do men live less than women
The risk of running into one of the most common 15 causes of death in the United States is greater for men than for women in almost all cases – and these causes are responsible for 80% of all deaths.
30.06.2017
Genetics
"Disease genes" may not affect health
11 out of 50 survey participants were found to have genetic variants that cause the risk of developing rare hereditary diseases, but only two showed symptoms.
30.06.2017
Biomedicine
New medicine
Biotech and medicine are among the most fashionable, popular and interesting areas in high–tech business. What niches are being formed in this industry?
30.06.2017
Other life sciences
Brain and microflora
It is not yet clear what is the cause and what is the effect; scientists plan to find out whether microbes affect the brain, or the brain – on the species composition of the microflora.
30.06.2017
Cellular technologies
Neurons from fibroblasts
The new neurons mimic not only the disease, but also the age of the patient. In addition, an almost unlimited number of neurons can be created from a single skin biopsy.
30.06.2017
Grants and competitions
Startup Competition from Alisher Usmanov
The best team at the end of each month will receive 1 million rubles. At the end of the year, Usmanov will discuss with one of the winners the possibility of further investments.
30.06.2017
Genetic engineering
CRISPR-Cas3: error-free editing
One of the versions of the CRISPR/Cas genomic editor has an error correction system, the modification of which will make it safer for humans.
30.06.2017