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Other life sciences

Do you sleep well?

A thin sensor of the Beddit sleep quality monitoring system, located under the sheet, allows you to analyze indicators such as falling asleep time, sleep duration, heart rate, etc.

13.08.2013
Genetics

Gamers are again offered to help geneticists

Fraxinus online game allows you to speed up the search for nucleotide sequences in the DNA of ash trees resistant to the virus, which has infected many trees over the past two decades and poses a threat to forests both in the UK and in Europe.

13.08.2013
Other life sciences

A blood clot after a stroke will be removed by a robot

Researchers from Vanderbilt University have developed a robotic surgical system that allows for the effective and minimally traumatic removal of blood clots from the brain formed as a result of a stroke.

13.08.2013
Other life sciences

Cage Hunting: "beaters" and "numbers"

Chimeric molecules made of DNA and antibodies can recognize cells more accurately if, instead of one such molecular robot, several are sent to hunt for a cell at once.

12.08.2013
Genetics

When will the child's health stop depending on the genetic roulette?

Mark Kurtzer, a well-known obstetrician-gynecologist, professor, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mother and Child Group of companies, tells about whether it is possible to give birth to a healthy child despite bad heredity.

12.08.2013
Controversial

Hamburger, almost identical to the natural one

Last Monday in London there was an event that is called "historic", "epoch-making" and "turning point": a person for the first time tasted a hamburger with "cultured meat" identical to beef.

12.08.2013
New in Gerontology

Now the water is wetter...

Living people whose age is approaching 100 years, on average, have preserved their mental alertness and physical shape better than their peers who lived a decade ago.

12.07.2013
Biomedicine

In Vitro fertilization: fly – it's cheaper!

Belgian reproductologists reported on successful clinical trials of a simplified IVF procedure, with the same effectiveness reducing its cost by an order of magnitude, up to 200 euros.

12.07.2013
Innovative Russia

Man in the palm of your hand

The box is smaller than a mobile phone – a model of human organs in one millionth of magnitude. Human organs and tissues are much more complicated, but today this development allows us to create, perhaps, their most adequate model.

12.07.2013
Other life sciences

Running from dementia

After training on the "squirrel wheel" in mice with a model of a severe hereditary disease leading, among other things, to dementia, mutant neurons fully recovered and began to create functional networks.

12.07.2013
Cellular technologies

Stem cell bones are getting closer to the clinic

For the first time, American researchers have gone all the way to transform specialized human cells (skin fibroblasts and bone marrow cells) into bone tissue cells.

12.07.2013
Controversial

Do omega-3 fatty acids increase the risk of prostate cancer?

As the lead author of the study noted, the results obtained contradict the generally accepted opinion about the positive effect of omega-3 fatty acids on health precisely because of their anti-inflammatory and, accordingly, oncoprotective effects.

11.07.2013
Nanotechnology

Will DNA nanoparticles help you quit smoking?

Scientists from the University of Arizona have created a nicotine-containing artificial "virus" that can be used as a vaccine that adjusts the immune system to fight nicotine.

11.07.2013