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Healthy skepticism

Why you shouldn't believe new medical research

Out of 101 of the published promising treatments and medical technologies, only 5 have entered the market. And only 1 of them has been actively used for at least 20 years.

13.09.2016
Other life sciences

Wound healing plasma

Irradiation of cells with cold plasma leads to their regeneration and "rejuvenation". This phenomenon can be used in the development of a course of plasma therapy for non-healing wounds.

13.09.2016
Innovative Russia

The best venture investor will be named in October

According to the Regulations, applicants are selected on the basis of statistical data from the Survey of the Russian Direct and Venture Investment Market conducted annually by the RAVI.

13.09.2016
Genetic engineering

Compulsion to commit suicide

Molecular biologists have successfully used the CRISPR/Cas9 genomic editor for the first time to suppress the growth of cancer cells and turn on their suicide program.

12.09.2016
Your health

Quickly raised should be considered fallen

Scientists have once again proved that the popular statement that a product quickly picked up from the floor is not harmful to health is not true.

12.09.2016
Your health

What did the ancestors of modern man eat?

The general idea is extremely simple: they ate whatever was at hand. Man as a species, as a genus, and even as a family, strictly speaking, arose as an omnivore.

09.09.2016
Cellular technologies

Cell therapy "returned hands" to paralyzed patient

Scientists from the University of Southern California, with the help of experimental cell therapy, returned hand movements to a young man paralyzed after a car accident.

09.09.2016
Other life sciences

New app diagnoses anemia

The HemaApp application developed at the University of Washington measures the concentration of hemoglobin in the blood and diagnoses anemia using a smartphone camera.

09.09.2016
Cellular technologies

Past, present and future of cell therapy

Biologist Sergey Kiselyov – about methods of treating diseases with stem cells and prospects for the development of this technology.

09.09.2016
Genetic engineering

Aibolites-GMO

GM technologies open up prospects for the creation of fundamentally new drugs and, probably, will make it possible to transplant animal organs to humans.

09.09.2016
Genetics

Transcriptome of arabidopsis

A detailed atlas of gene expression of the Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis thaliana), a model object of plant genetics, will clarify the functions of many genes and find genes previously unknown.

09.09.2016
Genetics

Eh, the relief of the musculature…

A group of French geneticists found out that some of the viral genes embedded in human DNA many years ago may be responsible for gaining muscle mass in males.

08.09.2016
Biomedicine

"Smoke detector" for early cancer diagnosis

The new test detects cancer by reacting to "smoke" – mutant proteins on the surface of red blood cells, the number of which increases by an order of magnitude in the presence of cancer pathology.

08.09.2016