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Genetics

When the dog fertilizes the grass…

Fines for dog feces left on the street are very large, but this measure has not been effective enough. Now the excrement of dogs will be sent for DNA analysis. Thus, the authorities intend to fight against unscrupulous owners of animals

29.04.2015
Various

Fundraising for a head transplant is going too slowly

The operation itself will cost more than 10 million euros, but Dr. Canavero promises to find them. Spiridonov (mainly for a trip to the neurosurgical congress in Annapolis) needs only $9,000, but in almost half of the allowable period, the benefactors have collected less than 10% of this amount.

29.04.2015
Genetics

How to organize genomic data

A new technique for processing very large arrays of NetWAS data increases the power of genome-wide association studies and makes it possible to identify genes whose mutations underlie complex human diseases.

29.04.2015
Biomedicine

Personalized cancer therapy: a search for options

An implant the size of a grain of rice will allow you to inject up to 30 different medications into the tumor in small doses and quickly choose the best treatment option in a particular case.

28.04.2015
Nanotechnology

How safe are upconversion nanoparticles?

MIPT scientists and their colleagues from Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Australia and the Netherlands conducted the first systematic study of the safety of so-called upconversion nanoparticles in the treatment of skin cancer and other skin diseases.

28.04.2015
Other life sciences

The new artificial retina is 5 times better than the existing ones

Tests on rats showed her ability to achieve visual acuity equivalent to 20/250 according to the Snellen table. Such an indicator is considered a serious visual impairment, but the best of the existing bionic eyes provide a value of about 20/1200 – this is almost complete blindness.

28.04.2015
Prolonging youth

I will live a century and a half

Alex Zhavoronkov, director of the British company Biogerontology Research Foundation, wants to prove that he is able to live up to at least one and a half hundred years.

27.04.2015
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