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Cellular technologies

An important step towards the cure of type 1 diabetes

Scientists at the Gladstone Institute and the University of California, San Francisco have developed a new method for producing functional insulin-producing beta cells - a potential strategy for the treatment of type 1 diabetes.

10.02.2014
Note to the businessman

Will crowdfunding help biomedical research?

Today, crowdfunding is a useful and relatively fast tool for financing small pilot experiments, the results of which can later be used when applying for larger grants.

10.02.2014
Healthy skepticism

The tasks are defined

The Russian government has formulated a list of sixteen priority scientific tasks. Five of them relate to the life sciences to one degree or another.

10.02.2014
Other life sciences

But I smell and hear well

The lack of vision allows you to hear quiet sounds and better determine the tonality. According to scientists, this can be used to help people with hearing impairments.

07.02.2014
Various

Smart Sensing

Scientists have created a "smart" Smart Sensing fabric containing many micro sensors that are of practical use for monitoring human health.

07.02.2014
Other life sciences

Metastases in the microchip

The behavior of metastatic tumor cells can be studied in a special microchip that simulates a blood vessel and the surrounding bone tissue, which the cancer cell will infect.

07.02.2014
Your health

Lose weight and die?

Despite the dangerous side effects, over the past hundred years, dinitrophenol has caused a stir around itself several times as the strongest means for weight loss. And every time it ended in deaths and lawsuits.

07.02.2014
Various

Cancer has ceased to be an incurable disease

Today, clinical oncologists have more than a hundred effective chemical and biological drugs in their arsenal. And cancer has moved from the category of fatal fatal diseases to the rank of chronic diseases that can be treated.

07.02.2014
Biomedicine

Non-toxic antifreeze for donated blood

The new biomedical antifreeze protects blood cells from freezing with much greater efficiency than the old cryoprotectors, which allows you not to waste time cleaning blood from it before transfusion.

06.02.2014
Other life sciences

Bionic hand with sense of touch

Nine years ago, Dane Dennis Sorensen had to have his left arm amputated. Of course, he did not think for a minute when he was offered to test a bionic prosthesis that allows not only to perform movements, but also to touch objects.

06.02.2014
Nanotechnology

Microchip for testing nanopreparations

A microchip consisting of two microfluidic channels separated by a porous membrane covered with endothelial cells will make it possible to predict the therapeutic effects of nanopreparations.

06.02.2014
Biomedicine

Hemostatic injection

The miniature XStat device is a modified syringe that inserts a sponge with a special coating into the wound. It not only increases the chances of survival, but also allows you to do without unnecessary suffering.

05.02.2014
Other life sciences

Play Genes in Space – help oncologists

The British Cancer Research Center has released a game that is designed to analyze medical data obtained from cancer patients.

05.02.2014
Various

safe@home is looking at you!

The safe@home system, which uses highly sensitive optical and acoustic sensors, will call for help in the event of a person falling or at his voice command.

05.02.2014
Genetics

Aging and cancer: epigenetics is to blame

The accumulation of age-related epigenetic changes in DNA may be the reason for the increase in the probability of malignant cell degeneration that occurs with aging.

05.02.2014
Other life sciences

An aging brain needs to be looked after

As we age, the brain becomes more susceptible to the action of abnormal proteins, which is partly due to a decrease in the activity of one of the chaperone proteins.

04.02.2014