Nanotechnology
Micro – robots - spermatozoa
Researchers have developed micro robots in the form of sperm cells, the movement of which can be controlled using a weak alternating magnetic field.
05.06.2014- English version
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Healthy skepticism
There is no food without chemicals
"Chemical food" is a horror story of our time. People do not want to eat harmful chemicals, but want to eat healthy natural products. But what they mean by this is mostly myths.
04.06.2014
Biomedicine
Treatment of melanoma: two promising drugs
The results of two international studies on the fight against skin cancer give new hope to thousands of cancer patients. Both studies were aimed at helping the immune system recognize late-stage melanoma and attack it.
04.06.2014
Healthy skepticism
The website of the RAS Commission on Combating Pseudoscience has been opened
The Commission on Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences has got its own website.
04.06.2014
Other life sciences
From the life of hair follicles: eggs teach a chicken
The signal to activate the resting stem cells of hair follicles is given by descendant cells – an intermediate link between stem cells and their final product, fully differentiated cells.
04.06.2014
Other life sciences
A model of synapse operation with the accuracy of a molecule
Scientists have created a detailed three-dimensional model of a single synapse, having a molecular level of detail and numbering 300 thousand protein molecules involved in the functioning of the synapse itself.
04.06.2014
Cellular technologies
Three-dimensional printing of blanks for blood vessels
Using hydrogel designs developed on the basis of the latest advances in three-dimensional bioprinting and biomaterials, scientists at Brigham Women's Hospital have created extensive networks of artificial blood vessels.
04.06.2014
Prolonging youth
Metformin anti-aging: new data
Metformin, the most widely used antidiabetic drug worldwide, slows down the aging process and increases the lifespan of nematodes.
04.06.2014
Your health
Immunity should be in moderation
A lack of an immune response is very bad, and an example of this is immunodeficiency, but excess is not a protection factor, but a pathogenesis factor.
03.06.2014
Cellular technologies
Tissues from cells
5 facts about regenerative medicine, artificial tissues and prospects for growing a heart.
03.06.2014
Other life sciences
NCoR1 – coordinator of cholesterol metabolism
Corepressor 1 of liver cell nuclei (NCoR1) is able to actively regulate the concentration of cholesterol in the blood; the development of drugs that affect NCoR1 is a new promising direction in the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis.
03.06.2014
Biomedicine
Cancer Stem Cell drug gives hope
Encouraging results of a clinical trial of an experimental drug OMP-54F28 (FZD8-Fc) selectively acting on cancer stem cells have been published.
03.06.2014
Genetics
The thousand-dollar genome: the goal is almost achieved
With the help of a unique program for financing promising developments, the US government has almost managed to achieve the long-awaited goal: to reduce the cost of genome sequencing to thousands of dollars.
03.06.2014
Genetics
Hair color is determined by a single nucleotide substitution
Geneticists have found out that blondes and blondes appear due to a single mutation. It does not affect any other body functions, except for hair color.
03.06.2014
Biomedicine
Quadropeutics: a quadruple blow to the tumor
Researchers from Rice University conducted the first preclinical study of an innovative approach to cancer treatment, consisting in a combination of four existing therapies and called "quadropeutics".
02.06.2014
Various
Bilingualism is not a consequence, but the cause of a clear mind in old age
Learning a second language, even in adulthood, has a positive effect on the brain. This conclusion was reached by scientists from the University of Edinburgh, who studied cognitive functions in 262 people, first at the age of 11, and then when the same people were about 70.
02.06.2014
Biomedicine
A new method of repairing damaged bones
The complex of heparin microparticles and growth factor – bone morphogenetic protein – increases the effectiveness of the restoration of traumatic bone tissue damage.
02.06.2014
Cellular technologies
The laser stimulates the restoration of teeth
Exposure to low–power laser radiation stimulates dental stem cells to regenerate dentin, a type of bone tissue that forms the tooth body.
02.06.2014
Cellular technologies
About the present and the future of IPSK – first-hand
Induced pluripotent stem cells are the hope, if not for eternal youth, then at least for solving a number of medical problems. Nobel laureate Professor Shinya Yamanaka told about the prospects of his discovery.
02.06.2014
Cellular technologies
Endogenous stem cells to improve the cognitive functions of the damaged brain
The active study of stem cell biology and the development of drug delivery systems to brain tissue should shed light on the processes of brain development and endogenous responses to damage, as well as give rise to new approaches to brain regeneration and restoration of cognitive functions that have deteriorated due to injuries and neurodegenerative diseases.
02.06.2014