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Genetic engineering

Resveratrol from cell cultures

Using the methods of regulating the biosynthesis of valuable substances, scientists were able to increase the content of resveratrol in grape cell cultures by 100 times (up to 3% of the dry weight).

15.05.2017
Prolonging youth

Getting old without getting old

Director of the Leiden Academy of Vital Activity and Aging – about atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction and mortality from cardiovascular diseases.

12.05.2017
Grants and competitions

The Triumph Contest

The competition is organized by the international company IVAO. Triumph is an international competition of biotechnological projects for young entrepreneurs.

12.05.2017
Biomedicine

Hunting for the pancreas

Perhaps someday the diagnosis of "type 1 diabetes mellitus" will disappear from the list of lifelong serious diseases, and people with a predisposition to it will be able to breathe easy.

12.05.2017
Nanotechnology

Nanocontainers in the fight against influenza

In order for the therapeutic molecule to get into the right cell and at the same time retain its properties, it needs to be packed in a capsule. Specially for antiviral RNA, it was developed by scientists from TPU.

12.05.2017
Biomedicine

CAR T cells obtained in situ (in vivo)

The new technology is still far from clinical application, but there is hope that it will become the basis for a relatively inexpensive and widely available application of CAR-T.

12.05.2017
Your health

National Health Monitoring of Russians

According to the VTsIOM-Sputnik survey, Russians consider work, stress, lack of money for medicines and the state of the environment to be the main reasons for poor health.

12.05.2017
Biomedicine

On the ruins of memory

The gradual but unavoidable loss of memory, and with it personality, can frighten everyone. What can modern science offer to combat Alzheimer's disease?

12.05.2017
Prolonging youth

Marijuana rejuvenated the brains of old mice

Course administration of the main active substance of marijuana is able to restore cognitive functions (in particular, learning and memory) of elderly mice to the level of young animals.

11.05.2017
Other life sciences

Virtual Psychiatrist

We can confidently talk about good prospects for using virtual reality to treat various phobias, anxiety disorders and other mental ailments.

11.05.2017
Genetics

Important letter

Russian researchers have identified a letter in the genome that may be involved in the mechanisms of development of autoimmune diseases, in particular, multiple sclerosis.

11.05.2017
Other life sciences

The liver grows after eating

Why the liver increases and decreases is unclear; most likely, it's about the assimilation of nutrients that enter the body at a certain time of day.

11.05.2017
Other life sciences

Prototype of a soft bionic retina

This is a field of 16 cubes of hydrogel with droplets of the bacteriorhodopsin protein, which, like the pigment of the cones of the retina, creates an action potential when illuminated.

10.05.2017
Your health

Blood type and heart disease

Researchers from the Netherlands have found that people with any blood type other than I are more susceptible to cardiovascular pathologies, including the occurrence of a heart attack.

10.05.2017
Other life sciences

The sighted hand

British engineers are preparing to test prosthetic hands that automatically determine the shape of the object to be taken and "adjust" to it.

10.05.2017