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Other life sciences

Exoskeleton for children

The first of its kind children's exoskeleton allows patients with spinal muscular atrophy to walk, preventing the development of the health-damaging consequences of immobility.

15.06.2016
Genetics

Submit the metagenome for analysis

A software tool called MetaFast, developed by Russian scientists, allows for a quick comparative analysis of a large number of metagenomes.

15.06.2016
Other life sciences

Biofuels from the toilet

The Walden Science Pavilion can become a prototype of the anhydrous bio toilets of the future, for which customers will be paid a symbolic amount for visiting.

15.06.2016
Prolonging youth

Scientists have reversed muscle aging

Injections of osteocalcin, a hormone that bones produce during exercise, restored muscle performance to elderly mice at the level of three–month–old animals.

15.06.2016
Other life sciences

Chip for finding snips

Researchers from the University of California have developed a graphene chip that is able to detect snips – single nucleotide DNA mutations.

15.06.2016
Other life sciences

Parkinson's disease: a new target

Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh have described the mechanism of toxic action of the alpha-synuclein protein. This opens up new ways to develop treatments for Parkinson's disease.

15.06.2016
Other life sciences

Virtual reality technologies in medicine

According to the forecast of the research and consulting company IndustriARC, by 2020 the global market of virtual and augmented reality technologies in healthcare will reach $2.54 billion.

15.06.2016
Cellular technologies

Stem cells against eczema

Therapy with cord blood mesenchymal stem cells is effective against moderate and severe manifestations of atopic dermatitis, the most common form of eczema.

14.06.2016
Other life sciences

50 shades of biotechnology

Transcript of a lecture by Alexander Panchin, popularizer of science, Candidate of Biological Sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Board of the Evolution Foundation.

14.06.2016
Prolonging youth

Alternatives to death

How does modern molecular biology look at the phenomenon of aging? How are they trying to study aging, are there any hopes for slowing down or even stopping this process?

14.06.2016
Other life sciences

Accounting with calculation

The main goal of the Human Proteome project is to inventory the proteins of the human body and find out the interactions between them.

14.06.2016
Genetic engineering

Flash drives in a test tube

Scientists from Harvard University using CRISPR technology encoded 100 bytes of information in the genome of E.coli bacteria. But this is just the beginning...

14.06.2016
Cellular technologies

Resetting the immune system

A radical approach to the treatment of multiple sclerosis involves the complete destruction of the existing immune system and its reinstallation with the help of stem cells.

14.06.2016
Genetics

Double-bottom DNA

Physicists have confirmed the long-standing hypothesis that there is a "second layer of information" in the genetic code: the mechanical properties of DNA determine how the sequence of nucleotides will be read.

14.06.2016
Your health

Dental care – cancer prevention

Daily brushing of teeth and a visit to the dentist once a year can reduce the risk of developing certain types of head and neck cancer.

10.06.2016
Biomedicine

The success of cancer immunotherapy

New immunopreparations in combination with traditional chemotherapy increase the survival rate of patients with late stages of poorly treatable tumors of various localization.

10.06.2016
Cellular technologies

IPSC according to the "gold standard"

Russian scientists have proved that stem cells obtained from ordinary cells of the body by reprogramming almost do not differ from the reference ones.

10.06.2016
Genetic engineering

A new method of gene therapy

A group of scientists has proposed a new method for solving one of the problems of gene therapy – how to ensure that the main part of the work of the organ is performed by genetically modified cells.

10.06.2016
Other life sciences

Anal sphincter made of magnetic beads

Magnetic anal sphincters were implanted in American patients for the first time. Four people with chronic fecal incontinence received the devices.

09.06.2016