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"Selfie" of melanoma

Researchers at Duke University have developed a gigapixel camera designed for early diagnosis of melanoma, the most common type of skin cancer.

07.10.2014
Nanotechnology

Magnetic fields control "nanorackets"

Researchers from the University of Nijmegen have learned how to open and close nanoparticles using magnets. This process allows for the directed transport of medicinal substances in the body.

07.10.2014
Genetics

There are 2 times more "growth genes"

An international consortium of scientists has managed to almost double the number of mutations associated with human growth, clarifying about one-fifth of the biological picture of its heritability.

06.10.2014
Grants and competitions

MIPT Postdoctoral Competition

MIPT announces a competition to select young scientists with international experience in leading research organizations to conduct research in MIPT laboratories in 2014-2016 with the possibility of extension until 2017.

06.10.2014
Innovative Russia

Biocad is developing a cure for melanoma

According to experts, the use of monoclonal antibodies to the PD-1 antigen will lead to a stop in tumor development in 30-40% of patients. This will be a real breakthrough in the treatment of metastatic melanoma.

03.10.2014
Your health

Have a healthy appetite!

Our health depends on heredity by 15-20%. Harmful environmental factors affect an average of 20-25%. Medical care accounts for only 10-15%. The key point that determines 50-55% of what happens to the body is the quality of nutrition.

03.10.2014
Other life sciences

Capsule instead of injection

Hollow capsules covered with microscopic needles can inject drugs directly into the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract.

03.10.2014
Nanotechnology

Nanoparticles against autoimmune diseases

The introduction of biomimetic nanoparticles into the blood makes it possible to remove pathological antibodies from the body responsible for the development of an autoimmune reaction.

03.10.2014
Various

Where did AIDS come from?

Researchers have established that the first HIV-infected people appeared in Leopoldville, the capital of the Belgian Congo in the 1920s. The AIDS pandemic began about 20 years before the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus in 1983.

03.10.2014
Theories of aging

A reasonable man liberated

Vladimir Skulachev is a scientist the whole world knows. And at the same time, he is a dissident in science, who decided to challenge not only colleagues, but also the fundamental limitations of human nature – aging and death.

02.10.2014
Innovative Russia

Top 10 Biomedical startups

The selection of the ten best biotech and medical startups in Russia became the final point of the cycle of events of the BiotechMed track of the federal GenerationS accelerator competition.

02.10.2014
New in Gerontology

Does brain aging begin in the vascular plexuses?

The authors of the work, published recently in the journal Science, found out what the aging of the brain is expressed in. They even suggested a way to scroll back in time.

02.10.2014
Genetics

Telegony of flies

Australian biologists have found out that in nature there is still a kind of similarity of telegony – a popular concept in the XIX century, even in the partial justice of which all biologists stopped believing at the beginning of the XX century.

02.10.2014
Grants and competitions

Winter School of the University of Helsinki – 2015

The Finnish Center for International Mobility CIMO accepts applications from young specialists from Russia and Ukraine studying at the postgraduate level to participate in the 19th Winter School (March 2-7, 2015, zoo station in Tvarminna).

01.10.2014