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Cellular technologies

Stem cells will help with birth defects and skull injuries

Stem cells that ensure the plasticity of the bones of the skull of newborns and differ in origin from the cells that form the bones of other parts of the body can help with rare congenital pathology and with the restoration of craniofacial injuries.

27.04.2015
Nanotechnology

Photosynthesis without plants

A hybrid artificial photosynthesis system developed by scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley combines semiconductor chemistry with biotechnology.

27.04.2015
Your health

Do not refuse vaccination

For the last 7-10 years, WHO has been considering vaccination not as a means of reducing morbidity (it has already decreased on the planet), but as a means of maintaining health. Vaccinoprophylaxis and vaccine therapy is the most innovative approach to preserving the health of the nation.

27.04.2015
Grants and competitions

GenerationS-2015: application acceptance continues

GenerationS is a federal accelerator of technology startups, during which the best projects selected based on the results of a multi–stage examination receive intensive development and broad opportunities to attract investment.

27.04.2015
Various

The smallest donor

In the UK, doctors in April 2014 transplanted the kidneys of an infant to an adult, who lived only 100 minutes after birth due to a congenital defect.

27.04.2015
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of eggs instead of "three-parent" children?

An alternative technique involves the neutralization of faulty mitochondria in eggs. Whether it will be more effective and safer is still unknown, but fanatical guardians of bioethics will surely protest against such an approach.

24.04.2015
Healthy skepticism

How the Chinese secretly made a Superman

What exactly is the terrible danger of this research, which made all progressive humanity shudder in horror? Only that the Chinese did something without asking permission from non-Chinese.

24.04.2015
Innovative Russia

The Russian exoskeleton is ready for testing

The ExoaThlet company has agreed to cooperate with the N.I. Pirogov RNIMU to conduct the first clinical studies of an exoskeleton for the rehabilitation of people with impaired musculoskeletal functions of the lower extremities on the basis of the Translational Medicine Research Institute.

24.04.2015
Genetics

Why did mammoths become extinct?

In the last mammoths that lived on Wrangel Island, anomalies, mutations and deformities increased as a result of closely related interbreeding. The researchers came to these results by fully reading the genomes of two mammoths.

24.04.2015
Other life sciences

Will DNA computers replace hardware?

By 2020, the volume of data created and stored by humanity will reach 40,000 exabytes. Less than 100 g of DNA would be enough to store this information, which makes us sincerely believe in the prospect of the development of DNA computers.

24.04.2015
Cellular technologies

24 million for the development of an "organism-on-a-chip"

The aim of the new project is to develop an "organism-on-a–chip" - a system of miniature analogues of human organs designed to simulate the body's reactions to chemical and biological agents and develop therapies.

24.04.2015
Biomedicine

A new strategy for cancer immunotherapy

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new method of cancer immunotherapy. The essence of the technology is to combine the work of the two main branches of the immune system.

23.04.2015
Genetic engineering

Editing the human genome: the first pancake lump

Chinese geneticists admitted that they tried to modify the genome of human embryos and faced insurmountable difficulties that do not allow using the popular CRISPR/CAS9 genome editor for therapeutic purposes.

23.04.2015
Prolonging youth

Low-calorie diet rejuvenates aging muscles

In young animals, a low-calorie diet causes a decrease in muscle mass, while in middle age it has a beneficial effect on the condition of muscle tissue, improving its metabolism and muscle mass.

23.04.2015
Grants and competitions

Summer School "Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials"

The All-Russian summer school of the Fulbright program in the field of exact sciences and technologies "Nanotechnologies and nanomaterials" will be held in Kazan from June 15 to 26, 2015.

23.04.2015