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Genetics

Scandal in the royal family

The probability that the remains discovered in 2012 in a parking lot in Leicester are the bones of Richard III is 99.999%. At the same time, it was not possible to find a match in the genes of the monarch's male relatives.

05.12.2014
Other life sciences

On the way to cyborgization

How acceptable is a complete prosthetics of the body for a person as his main vital organs gradually fail? The author believes that technologically this will be possible in the next 25 years

04.12.2014
Other life sciences

Iodine-125 of domestic production

In June of this year, the only production of micro sources for low-dose brachytherapy in Russia started in Dubna. At the end of autumn, micro sources based on the isotope iodine-125 were implanted in the first patients with prostate cancer.

04.12.2014
Other life sciences

Neurons for Algernon

The level of intelligence of mice whose brains were injected with human embryonic nerve cells increased dramatically: for example, they remembered four times longer about the connection of a certain sound with a weak electric shock.

04.12.2014
Grants and competitions

Nano-Olympiad - 2015

The IX All-Russian Internet Olympiad "Nanotechnology – a Breakthrough into the Future!" invites schoolchildren, students, postgraduates and young scientists in the field of nanosystems, nanomaterials and nanotechnology to participate.

04.12.2014
Innovative Russia

A new venture fund in the field of medical technologies

RusBio Ventures plans to invest in the creation of world-class innovative technologies, in companies engaged in the development of medical equipment, medical devices, IT solutions in the field of biomedicine and projects from related industries.

04.12.2014
Biotechnologies - into life

World-class Russian biomedicine

The PrimeBioMed project is aimed at solving an important and ambitious task – the creation in Russia of a unique biotechnological production of medical devices that is not inferior in quality to the best Western analogues.

04.12.2014
Grants and competitions

Summer School in Lausanne

University students studying biology, physics, chemistry, bioengineering, computer disciplines and planning to specialize further in life sciences are invited to participate in the competition.

03.12.2014
New in Gerontology

Mediterranean diet slows down telomere shortening

According to the authors of another study on this topic, the Mediterranean diet leads to a reduction in the risk of cardiovascular diseases and a slowdown in the reduction of telomere sizes.

03.12.2014
Healthy skepticism

The award to the pseudoscientific project was canceled at the last moment

The award of the governor of the Moscow region was almost received by the author of the project, who promises to cure any cancer and much more by influencing the genome with the help of a miracle drug in two weeks. The Commission on Combating Pseudoscience of the Russian Academy of Sciences and scientific experts unequivocally assessed it as pseudoscientific.

03.12.2014
Various

Ambulance Drone flies to the rescue

The Ambulance Drone drone will deliver a defibrillator, a first aid kit and a communicator to the place in just a minute, with the help of which a medical specialist can direct the actions of ordinary people who are near the victim.

03.12.2014
Biomedicine

A new oncolytic virus

It has been established that the M1 virus, safe for humans and laboratory animals, is capable of causing destruction and lysis of cells of various malignant human tumors.

02.12.2014
Other life sciences

Not too "picky" enzyme

A new study provides a possible explanation for how one type of DNA damage leads to the development of cancer, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases and Alzheimer's disease.

02.12.2014
Various

XVIII Russian Cancer Congress

From November 11 to 13, the XVIII Russian Cancer Congress was held in Moscow at the Congress Center of the World Trade Center.

02.12.2014
Other life sciences

HIV mutates and weakens, but the danger persists

Scientists emphasize that it will take a very long time before HIV becomes harmless, and before that happens, it is necessary to continue developing more effective drugs and affordable treatment to prevent the development of AIDS.

02.12.2014
Genetics

Our old friend ethanol

A person became addicted to alcohol long before he began to produce it, even long before he became a man. The ability to process ethanol originated in our ape-like ancestors 10 million years ago.

02.12.2014
Other life sciences

Three-dimensional model of the heart for cardiac surgeons

A life-size model of a particular patient's heart will allow the doctor to know in advance where to make an incision, how to redirect blood flow in the best way, as well as how to patch holes in the heart muscles.

01.12.2014
Biomedicine

Breast cancer: the offensive continues

Specialists from the Washington University Medical School in St. Louis conducted the first stage of clinical trials of a vaccine against metastatic breast cancer. Studies have shown the safety and effectiveness of the drug.

01.12.2014