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Other life sciences

How to feed your microflora?

Bacteria living in the gastrointestinal tract can influence the host's eating behavior. This hypothesis was put forward by American scientists based on a review of a large number of independent studies.

20.08.2014
Other life sciences

Sweat and charge the batteries

A small electronic tattoo is attached to a person's body and monitors the state of his health during physical training. The device will be powered by the decomposition of lactic acid released with sweat during intense loads.

20.08.2014
Innovative Russia

Disabled people are invited to test

The creators of Russia's first medical exoskeleton are recruiting disabled volunteers to test it. The organizers have already received hundreds of applications from people with musculoskeletal disorders. The start of the tests is scheduled for the fall of this year

20.08.2014
Biomedicine

How to grow a new bone

A framework of dozens of layers of biodegradable polymer, as it is destroyed at a given rate and in the required amount releasing growth factors, allows for two weeks to restore large defects of bone tissue.

20.08.2014
Genetic engineering

Another success of gene therapy

Gene therapy has taken a step towards the treatment of beta-thalassemia and other diseases caused by a mutation in a single gene. Scientists obtained iPSCs from the patient's cells, edited their genome and forced them to differentiate into blood cells.

19.08.2014
Innovative Russia

Russian scientists have taught nanoparticles to count

In order not to miss the priority, the lead author of the article Maxim Nikitin worked 70 hours a week, spent about $ 20 thousand of family money on reagents, and spent part of the experiments at home, because security did not allow him to work at the institute at night.

19.08.2014
Various

Young geriatricians are waiting for you in Switzerland!

The shortage of qualified geriatric doctors in Switzerland is superimposed on the overall shortage of physicians in the country. At least a third of the doctors working in the Confederation were educated abroad.

19.08.2014
Nanotechnology

Nanorobots with a spiral motor

A group of Israeli and German researchers managed to create a nanomotor, which is not only the smallest in the world, but also due to its spiral shape allows nanorobots not to get entangled in protein molecules.

19.08.2014
Grants and competitions

Presidential Awards for Young Scientists

The Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Science and Education begins accepting documents for the 2014 Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of science and innovation for young scientists.

19.08.2014
Note to the businessman

LabCures – crowdfunding for biomedicine

A new commercial company LabCures, created by employees of the Institute for the Study of Aging of the Tank, plans to raise money for biomedical research using the Internet.

19.08.2014
Cellular technologies

The current model of brain tissue

The three-dimensional model, similar in structure and function to the tissue of the rat cerebral cortex, remains viable in laboratory conditions for a long time.

19.08.2014
Genetics

The advantage of heterozygotes

Sometimes a recessive mutation in homozygotes (organisms with two copies of the mutant gene) causes disease, and heterozygotes (with one copy) allows them to better adapt to living conditions.

18.08.2014
Healthy skepticism

How Homeopathy Works

Recently, a website dedicated to how homeopathy works has appeared on the Internet. All the grains of knowledge accumulated by the long-term works of scientists from different countries and peoples are summed up on it briefly and concisely: nothing.

18.08.2014
Genetic engineering

Genetically modified bacteria destroy tumors

A modified version of Clostridium novyi bacteria has a strong and highly specific antitumor effect when administered to mice, dogs and humans.

18.08.2014
Genetics

The genetic map of a perfectly healthy person

Google's scientific division, Google X, has launched a major project called The Baseline Study. The purpose of the project is to collect information to compile the most complete picture of human health.

18.08.2014
Prolonging youth

Is it time to test medicines for old age on a person?

Scientists are arguing how to solve the problem of aging and prolonging life. Some believe that we already know enough to test anti-aging drugs on humans. Others object that the effect of these substances on the body has not been studied enough.

18.08.2014
Your health

Don't let the doctors do this!

Patients (at least if they are not unconscious) can prevent a number of typical medical errors.

18.08.2014
Biomedicine

Early diagnosis of cancer and other diseases: immunoprofiling

The new immunoprofiling technology, which analyzes the composition of the entire population of antibodies circulating in the patient's bloodstream, makes it possible to diagnose various types of cancer and other diseases at an early stage with almost 100 percent accuracy.

18.07.2014