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Bioethics

WHO against human trafficking

The shortage of healthy organs for transplantation leads to the phenomenon of "transplant tourism". The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Trafficking Joy Ngozi Ezeilo warned the General Assembly about this on Friday.

29.10.2013
Nanotechnology

Stealth nanoparticles with an anti-cancer warhead

MIT researchers have developed multilayer nanoparticles invisible to the immune system for precise drug delivery, attacking cells of non-chemotherapeutic breast cancer.

29.10.2013
Biomedicine

Will microRNAs save your vision?

A new approach to the treatment of ophthalmic diseases is based on the use of microRNAs that suppress the activity of the gene responsible for the process of pathological vascular growth.

28.10.2013
Your health

Life-saving cuff

Danish scientists from the University of Aarhus have proposed using a cuff from a conventional medical tonometer as a means of preventing large-scale myocardial necrosis in heart attack.

28.10.2013
Other life sciences

Transcriptomics methods are being improved

A method has been developed that allows you to quickly and accurately study the transcriptome (the totality of all RNAs) in an extremely small amount of biological material.

28.10.2013
Controversial

Is the harm of saturated fats exaggerated?

The health risks posed by saturated fats contained in foods such as butter, cakes and fatty meats are overstated and demonized, says a British cardiologist.

28.10.2013
Other life sciences

The variety of symptoms of Parkinson's disease has been explained

The researchers were able to describe and obtain two different types of aggregates of the alpha-synuclein protein – the causes of Parkinson's disease. One of them is much more toxic and has a more pronounced ability to damage neurons.

28.10.2013
Note to the businessman

Top 10 Biotech companies that went public in 2013

Nowhere does the old Latin definition of “caveat emptor” (buyer, bdi) better illustrate the situation than in the biotech sector. This year, the revenues were very large. The risks were the same.

25.10.2013
Biomedicine

Universal HIV vaccine: the objectives are clear…

The genetic diversity of HIV is very high, and this is an obstacle to the development of an effective vaccine. However, scientists in the United States have proven that the mosaic vaccine will help create an immune response against a large number of HIV virus strains.

25.10.2013
Innovative Russia

A hybrid of a pan with a fan

Vortex bioreactors are very simple at first glance. And they are also very cheap and allow you to reduce energy costs for production by five to ten times.

25.10.2013
Other life sciences

Alzheimer's disease, cholesterol and sirtuins

Disorders associated with cholesterol-carrying protein ApoE4 and Alzheimer's disease, such as the formation of phosphorylated tau protein and beta-amyloid, can be prevented by increasing the level of one of the "anti-aging" proteins – sirtuins - SirT1.

25.10.2013
Grants and competitions

Postgraduate studies in Berlin

The Graduate School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof at Humboldt University accepts applications for participation in the scholarship program for postgraduate studies in chemistry, biology, physics, natural sciences.

24.10.2013
Cellular technologies

The first tissue-engineered trachea met expectations

The patient, who had her trachea transplanted using tissue engineering methods for the first time in the world five years ago, feels well and does not suffer from immunological complications of therapy.

24.10.2013
Various

They lived happily ever after

Pensioners, having received a lifetime annuity in exchange for a bequest of an apartment, deceived the expectations of businessmen: their life expectancy turned out to be much longer than the estimated one.

24.10.2013
Genetics

The number of other people's children is greatly exaggerated

The idea of the prevalence in the past centuries in Europe of a situation when deceived husbands, unsuspecting nothing, raise children who are biologically alien to them, is greatly exaggerated, and the situation in this area was not too different from the modern one.

24.10.2013