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I can see right through you!

For future doctors, HoloLens glasses can project various organs, for example, a heart that will "beat". Organs can be viewed in the context, and the whole body can be divided into separate organ systems and considered separately.

15.07.2015

Various

Better over... than under...

Despite the fact that the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee has not confirmed the link between immunization against human papillomavirus and the development of diseases, the European Medicines Agency will re-examine this issue.

15.07.2015

Innovative Russia

Don't look for money, look for partners

The Engineering Center of MEPhI is about the commercialization of high technologies, including a "smart" capsule for examination of the gastrointestinal tract.

15.07.2015

Genetics

Personalized Medicine Development Program

Using unique genetic information, it is possible to determine how successful the use of a particular medication will be for each individual patient and what side effects may be from their use.

15.07.2015

Other life sciences

Brainet – three brains working together

Neurophysiologists from Duke University have combined the brains of three monkeys into a "brainet" – a distributed system that allows them to synchronize efforts to achieve results without using direct communication.

14.07.2015

Genetics

Two mutations causing diabetes and obesity have been found

One of them is found in the genome of about a million Americans. The second, less dangerous mutation is represented in the genomes of 7% of African Americans. And these are not the first and not the last mutations that make excess calories especially dangerous.

14.07.2015

Various

The killer in the white coat

An American oncogematologist, who prescribed chemotherapy to patients without medical necessity, received a 45-year prison sentence.

14.07.2015

Genetic engineering

Gene therapy for brain cancer: new successes

The result of the new method of gene therapy using nanoparticles as carriers of the therapeutic gene was a reduction in the size of tumors and a significant increase in the survival rate of animals.

14.07.2015

Your health

It's better to be healthy and rich…

In patients with one of the three risk factors (diabetes, heart attack or stroke), the probability of early death is 2 times higher compared to those without these diseases, in patients with two diseases the risk is 4 times higher, with three – 8.

14.07.2015

Genetics

Pharmacogenomics is already on the threshold of clinics

Soon, everyone will be able to store data about their genome on a medium whose size will be comparable to the size of a credit card. At the same time, doctors will be able to predict the effectiveness of treatment by studying the patient's genome.

13.07.2015

Nanotechnology

From Gaussian by tumor

American researchers have demonstrated a prototype of tiny robots that can "assemble" into a miniature Gauss gun and shoot, hitting a malignant cell or delivering the necessary drugs into its bowels.

13.07.2015

Genetics

We will tell you for the genes :)

Science does not know of a single characteristic gene that would be only in Jews and would not manifest itself in other ethnic groups. But representatives of Jewish communities around the world do have similar hereditary traits.

13.07.2015

Nanotechnology

Uncorking of arteries

The developers of the method of removing plugs in blood vessels hope that clinical trials of nanorobots, coiled into a spiral like a corkscrew, can be started in two to three years.

13.07.2015

Cellular technologies

Dental pulp stem cells restored damaged nerves

The introduction of mobilized dental pulp stem cells promotes regeneration of peripheral nerves due to the secretion of neurotrophic and angiogenic factors.

13.07.2015

Genetic engineering

Microbes will make a diagnosis

A human intestinal bacterium can be equipped with a molecular genetic device with which the microbe will remember what happened in the host's body.

13.07.2015

Other life sciences

The ninth formula of light

The mushroom luciferin discovered by Russian scientists, the ninth in the world list, will find its application in bioimaging and other areas of applied bioluminescence.

13.07.2015

Your health

Take care of the men!

The lack of luxury goods increases the risks to men's health by one and a half times. At the same time, it is enough for women to have a set of essential goods to maintain an acceptable state of health.

10.07.2015

Other life sciences

Coronary artery tomography predicts near death

The severity of calcification assessed by computed tomography – the deposition of insoluble calcium compounds – in the walls of the coronary arteries makes it possible to predict mortality from any cause with high accuracy over the next 15 years.

10.07.2015

Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of congenital hearing loss

American scientists have developed and successfully tested on mice a gene therapy for deafness caused by mutations in the TMC1 gene encoding structural elements of auditory receptors.

10.07.2015

Biomedicine

Light therapy

The staff of the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich suggested activating chemotherapy drugs with the help of light. This will not only actively destroy tumor cells, but also reduce the degree of side effects.

10.07.2015