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Other life sciences

Artificial kidney for permanent wear

A portable artificial kidney designed to be worn on the patient's body is a viable and much more comfortable alternative to the traditional hemodialysis procedure.

07.06.2016
Various

"The doorway effect"

Isn't it a familiar situation: getting up from the chair and confidently walking into the next room for some purpose, we, having crossed its threshold, realize that we have forgotten, and why, in fact, did we come there?

07.06.2016
Biomedicine

Atherosclerosis and telomeres

Despite the fact that patients with cardiovascular diseases are characterized by short telomeres, their length is not a prognostic risk factor for the development of such diseases.

06.06.2016
Other life sciences

Gadget for asthmatics

American scientists have developed a wearable device for monitoring the condition of patients with asthma, its connection with environmental factors and the risk of developing an attack.

06.06.2016
Various

When there are not enough hands

A robotic device worn on the wrist allows a person to do something that can only be done with three hands.

06.06.2016
Genetic engineering

First-hand news about CRISPR

Konstantin Severinov – about a new type of CRISPR systems and the latest trends in genome editing.

06.06.2016
Biomedicine

Diagnosis of a heart attack in 10 minutes

The new portable device Minicare I-20, designed for use in intensive care units, allows you to quickly diagnose a myocardial infarction with a single drop of blood.

06.06.2016
Biomedicine

Step to victory over cancer: details

It is possible to produce vaccines from RNA lipoplexes quickly and inexpensively, while they can contain any tumor antigens, providing universal immunotherapy for cancer.

03.06.2016
Genetics

Synthetic human genome

An international group of scientists, which included the famous biologist George Church, proposed a project to create a synthetic human genome.

03.06.2016
Controversial

Lazarus or Frankenstein?

A group of scientists hopes to restore some of the basic brain functions of patients diagnosed with brain death with the intention of restoring their ability to breathe independently.

03.06.2016
Prolonging youth

Mice with extra-long telomeres

Scientists from the Spanish Cancer Research Center have created mice with extra-long telomeres in their chromosomes. At the same time, the animals remained young longer.

03.06.2016
Other life sciences

Stiletto shoes for prosthetic legs

The prosthesis weighs only 1.4 kg and is able to withstand the weight of 113 kg ladies, allowing you to feel confident in any shoe, from ballet flats with sneakers to stilettos up to 10 cm high.

02.06.2016
Note to the businessman

How $4.5 billion turned into Nothing

Last year, the fortune of Elizabeth Holmes, who founded the biotech startup Theranos, was estimated at about $4.5 billion. Now Forbes has lowered the initial estimate to... zero.

02.06.2016
Biomedicine

Medicine for RNA

American scientists have found a low–molecular compound capable (so far - in human cell culture) of blocking one of the RNA defects and eliminating the manifestations of the disease caused by it.

02.06.2016
Genetics

The cause of multiple sclerosis is a mutation

Multiple sclerosis can be caused by the replacement of just one nucleotide in the NR1H3 gene. The discovery refutes the opinion that this disease is never inherited.

02.06.2016
Genetics

Troll's Heart: details

A rare mutation that disrupts the ASGR1 gene reduces the risk of heart attack by a third. Amgen specialists have already started searching for drugs that can "turn off" this gene.

02.06.2016