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Other life sciences

Human Brain, Blue Brain... now also Cal-BRAIN

California, despite the massive ten–year federal BRAIN project announced by Obama last year, has adopted its own program of neurobiological innovations - Cal-BRAIN.

04.07.2014
Grants and competitions

Competition of Russian-Israeli nano- and biotechnological projects

The project should relate to the field of nanotechnology and/or biotechnology, have an industrial orientation and confirmed demand, including on the world market. The expected period of commercialization of the created technology is no more than 5 years.

04.07.2014
Healthy skepticism

Another blow to the legend of the "bigfoot"

The samples of the fur of the "snowmen" collected around the world partially turned out to be plant or artificial fibers, and the rest belong to a variety of well-known animals, but not to an "unknown humanoid primate".

04.07.2014
Other life sciences

Walking Microbiobot

A biorobot about a centimeter in size has the shape of the letter "P", between the "legs" of which a tourniquet of artificially grown muscle tissues is stretched. The robot's movement speed can be controlled by changing the frequency of electric current pulses.

04.07.2014
Cellular technologies

Limbal stem cells will help restore vision

Researchers from Boston have found a new way to restore the cornea of the eye. According to the authors, this method will someday help people who have lost their eyesight as a result of injuries and burns.

03.07.2014
Controversial

Vitamins in question

Is it worth it to regularly consume vitamins for millions of apparently healthy people who do not have any complaints about their well-being? Scientists are divided into two camps on this issue.

03.07.2014
Biomedicine

Modified red blood cells for drug delivery

With the help of genetic and enzymatic modifications, erythrocytes were turned into carriers suitable for the targeted delivery of a wide range of therapeutic compounds.

02.07.2014
Theories of aging

What scientists are doing to prolong our life and youth

The conference "Genetics of Aging and Longevity" ended in April, and reports on the issues discussed at it about the study of the causes of aging, attempts to slow it down, and if possible, stop it and even reverse it, continue.

02.07.2014
Other life sciences

Supercooling prolongs the life of the donor liver

The supercooling method allows to increase the period of preservation of the donor liver outside the body by 3 times compared to the existing ones – up to three days.

02.07.2014
Grants and competitions

Bio/mol/text-2014

Biomolecula annually holds a competition for the best popular scientific publication in the field of modern biology. A special feature of this year's competition is a new nomination – bioinformatics.

02.07.2014
Innovative Russia

Interactive map of Moscow innovations

The map is a search engine that consolidates information about technoparks, business incubators, accelerators, collective use centers, prototyping centers, innovation development institutes and other participants of the innovation system of the capital.

01.07.2014
Biomedicine

Stroke at gunpoint

American scientists have discovered a target for a future neuroprotective drug in the acute period of stroke – Cdk5 protein kinase.

01.07.2014
Your health

Sunscreens and skin cancer: details

Do sunscreens protect against cancer? Science and medicine do not yet have an unambiguous answer to this question.

01.07.2014
Biomedicine

Experimental drug against Alzheimer's disease

Rockefeller University researchers have identified a compound capable of stopping the progression of Alzheimer's disease by blocking the process of blood clots formation triggered by beta-amyloid.

01.07.2014
Cellular technologies

Mini-model of myocardial hypertrophy

Independently shrinking copies of human hearts, whose diameter does not exceed 1 mm, will help in the development of methods for the treatment of myocardial hypertrophy.

01.07.2014
Genetics

Genes age at different rates

Studying individual genomes turned out to be a much more difficult task than previously thought. The reason for this is the different rate of aging of the genome in different people and the aging of different genes within the same genome.

01.07.2014