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Note to the businessman

Money from Genes

Just three years after discovering its potential in gene editing, the new CRISPR technique has become the hottest and most controversial in the field of genomics. And now it's more than science: it's big business.

26.01.2016
Genetic engineering

Rabies virus modified to study brain connections

Researchers from the USA and the UK have improved one of the methods of studying the connections between neurons. To do this, they genetically modified the rabies virus.

25.01.2016
Nanotechnology

Test strip instead of enzyme immunoassay

A new technology based on the use of magnetic nanoparticles instead of fluorescent markers will make the procedure of biochemical analysis of liquids many times more accurate – and at the same time as easy to use as a pregnancy test.

25.01.2016
Genetics

Michurinsky epigenetics

The graft does not just take root on the rootstock plant, but also actively exchanges epigenetic information with it. The scale of this process has been greatly underestimated before.

25.01.2016
Biotechnologies - into life

Russian vaccine against all types of influenza

More than 30 million rubles were spent on preclinical trials of a universal vaccine developed at the St. Petersburg Influenza Research Institute, clinical trials will require two or three more years of work and 30-40 million rubles of investments.

22.01.2016
Other life sciences

Oh my intestines!

The Atlas biomedical holding, together with the Knomix company and the experts of the FHM Research Institute, launched the OhmyGut research project (for those who do not know English: the name of the project is a pun that sounds almost like "Oh my God").

22.01.2016
Healthy skepticism

The alien head of an unknown monkey

Scientists are skeptical about the statement of the Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero about a successful head transplant to a monkey and consider a human head transplant operation unacceptable.

22.01.2016
Your health

Cancer prevention: Our hands are not for boredom

Regular orgasm in men (at least 21 times a month) reduces the risk of prostate cancer by 22% compared to those who manage seven or less ejaculations, regardless of the method of achieving it.

22.01.2016
Genetic engineering

A library in a handful of seeds

According to the scientist, the use of a four-letter DNA language in the form of a binary code will allow storing huge amounts of information in plant DNA.

22.01.2016
Various

Save time on your morning coffee

A crowdfunding company has started on Indeigogo, within which it is planned to raise money for the production of an unusual toothpaste – it will contain caffeine.

21.01.2016
Various

Vaccine under the veil of secrecy

Is it possible to create an Ebola vaccine in a year and a half? Why is the information about the Russian vaccine intended exclusively for official use? And how can you defeat two strains of the virus "with one blow"?

21.01.2016
Controversial

What would Stanislavsky say about this?

Italian physician Sergio Canavero and his Chinese colleague Ren Xiaoting spoke about the results of unorthodox experiments on "gluing" the severed spinal cord in rodents and a complete head transplant in monkeys.

19.01.2016
Nanotechnology

Exoskeleton for paralyzed sperm

The sperm, dressed in an exoskeleton, reaches the egg with "dizzying" speed, and the microdrive even helps it to get inside, making the fertilization process as easy as possible

17.01.2016
Other life sciences

BRAKER1 – a new gene search algorithm

A group of scientists from Germany, America and Russia has proposed an algorithm that automates and makes the search for genes more efficient. In the 2 months since the publication of the article, the computer program has been downloaded by more than 1,500 different centers and laboratories around the world.

14.01.2016
Other life sciences

Our cells have been counted

Researchers from the Weizmann Institute have revised the popular opinion about the ratio of the number of cells of the human body and its symbiont bacteria.

13.01.2016
Genetics

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13.01.2016
Bioethics

Chimeras are real and ethical

So far, there is no question of growing full–fledged "chimeras" - current experiments should show whether the development of a human organ in an animal's body is possible in principle.

11.01.2016
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of retinitis pigmentosa

Bioengineers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center using the CRISPR/Cas9 system cured retinitis pigmentosa in rats – a dangerous hereditary disease that leads to blindness.

11.01.2016
Biomedicine

Will vitamin D help with multiple sclerosis?

Vitamin D and fish oil may be one of the most effective ways to combat multiple sclerosis, say scientists who have observed people taking "horse" doses of this vitamin.

30.12.2015