Other life sciences
Superelastic bones
A flexible polymer from which bone blanks can be printed does not cause an immune response, fills with cells on its own and ossifies naturally.
30.09.2016- English version
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Controversial
Let's remember the whole Wikipedia
The American startup Kernel has announced the beginning of the development of an implant to improve the memory and learning ability of people with disorders of these functions – for example, in Alzheimer's disease.
30.09.2016
New in Gerontology
DNA methylation and the likelihood of death
A team of scientists from 7 countries has demonstrated that DNA methylation can not only determine a person's biological age, but also predict his life expectancy.
29.09.2016
Other life sciences
Scientists have questioned the ability of dogs to feel the "smell of cancer"
In the new study, unlike the previous ones, dogs showed themselves to be not very effective in performing the task of diagnosing cancer by smell.
29.09.2016
Genetic engineering
Genetically modified plants: expert opinion
Why people are afraid of GMOs, how the GMO ban will affect science, how China is fighting GMOs and multinational companies, and how GMOs interact with nature.
29.09.2016
Biomedicine
Rhinovirus vaccine
Scientists have tested such a vaccine on cell cultures and found out that it provokes the development of an immune response and the formation of antiviral antibodies.
29.09.2016
Your health
"Maiden memory" of genes
After we stopped playing sports, the genes in our muscles quickly return to normal, "unsportsmanlike" activity.
28.09.2016
Nanotechnology
A useful side effect
Scientists accidentally discovered that iron nanoparticles, which were created as a cure for anemia, cause macrophages to attack cancer cells.
28.09.2016
Other life sciences
The propeller in the heart
The tiny Heartmat heart pump is inserted into the femoral artery, along which it is moved to the left ventricle, where it maintains blood flow, helping the heart to recover.
28.09.2016
Cellular technologies
The first "child from three parents"
The boy was born on April 6 of this year, but doctors decided to notify the general public about his birth only now, when it became clear that Ley syndrome was not threatening him.
28.09.2016
Healthy skepticism
Smeared with one world
We recently wrote about the falsification of research results on the effect of sugar on health. And whether to believe the research on the benefits of sweeteners? First find out who funded them :)
27.09.2016
Cellular technologies
Cellular gene therapy
Experiments on an animal model have shown the possibility of treating Duchene's myodystrophy by delivering therapeutic genes in stem cells.
27.09.2016
Healthy skepticism
Natural selection of "bad science"
More than half a century has passed since the publication of Cohen's work, but scientists still talk about successes, hiding defeats, and some even falsify the results.
27.09.2016
Nanotechnology
Therapeutic tattoo
Carbon nanoparticles can selectively suppress the activity of T-lymphocytes and reduce the symptoms of autoimmune diseases. At the same time, it is preferable to inject them under the skin.
27.09.2016
Other life sciences
Neurotransmitters, part 1
In the first part of a small educational course, Atlas talks about three of the most famous neurotransmitters, without which our life would be simply disgusting.
26.09.2016
Biomedicine
Nanoteranostics – the future of oncology
Professor of the MEPhI National Research Institute and the University of Aix-Marseille, Andrey Kabashin, in an interview with RIA Novosti correspondent Yulia Osipova, about the global prospects of nanoteranostics.
26.09.2016
Genetic engineering
RNA against metastases
Modified regulatory RNA molecules sent to the tumor in nanoparticles discourage cancer cells from traveling.
26.09.2016
Nanotechnology
Micro-robots-infusoria
The micro robot created by Korean specialists, raking cilia under the influence of an electromagnetic field, floats eight times faster than its closest competitors.
26.09.2016
Genetics
Greetings to the descendants
Three stories about non-classical methods of inheritance that can pass for telegony: how inheritance can occur that is not related to the transmission of their parents' genes to descendants.
26.09.2016
Other life sciences
Man and his microbiome
There are a lot of bacteria and viruses living in each of us, they help digest food and assimilate medications, affect the hormonal and immune systems and even the brain.
23.09.2016