Articles

Various

Why the government will have to stimulate the employment of older people

Perhaps the measures called by the Prime Minister will not bring serious results. At the same time, it is obvious that the employment of pensioners can support the Russian economy during the demographic crisis.

20.12.2012

Cellular technologies

Pacemaker from patient cells

American scientists, using a single gene, reprogrammed ordinary heart cells into cells that generate electrical impulses. Perhaps this technique will someday allow patients to transplant their own reprogrammed cells instead of pacemakers.

19.12.2012

Other life sciences

New data on the role of beta-amyloid and tau protein in Alzheimer's disease

Neurons in Alzheimer's disease often re-enter the cell cycle, but cannot complete mitosis and eventually die. This process requires coordinated actions of beta-amyloid and tau protein.

19.12.2012

Various

Science in Russia: the system needs to be changed!

In Russia, science exists separately, education exists separately, academic mobility is not developed, and reagents for experiments with the tender system have a chance to get only in 2-3 months. Is such a system competitive?

19.12.2012

Other life sciences

Digital Medicine

About the international conference "Healthcare and Technology 2012: Transformation of Opportunities" and what digital medicine is.

19.12.2012

Nanotechnology

Terminator T-1000 from DNA

The new material created by Cornell University researchers is a bit like the T-1000 Terminator: it can flow like a liquid and then return to its original form.

18.12.2012

Other life sciences

Wealth and longevity: double inequality

The average life expectancy is growing all over the world, but the dynamics of the "cost" of an additional year of life depends on per capita income. Of course, health and longevity are more expensive in poor countries than in rich ones.

18.12.2012

New in Gerontology

The paradox of aging: the older we get, the better we feel

Even against the background of deterioration of physical or cognitive functions, aging people indicate that their sense of general well-being improves with age.

18.12.2012

Other life sciences

Supercomputers for biomedicine and pharmacology

Intel and MIPT have summed up the results of the three-year work of the laboratory of supercomputer technologies for biomedicine, pharmacology and small structures I-SCALARE (Intel super computer applications laboratory for advanced research).

17.12.2012

Genetics

Delayed-action genes

A healthy person is a carrier of approximately 400 genetic variants that pose a potential threat to health, and 2 variants directly associated with diseases.

17.12.2012

Biomedicine

Fill the wound in the stomach with foam

The foam is formed by two liquid polymers, which, as a result of interaction, expand and solidify after being injected into the abdominal cavity. The survival rate with foam three hours after the start of bleeding increased from 8 to 72%.

14.12.2012

Other life sciences

A heart in a backpack

Specialists of the Ronald Reagan Medical Center performed a procedure for removing a patient affected by heart disease with temporary replacement with a completely artificial SynCardia heart.

14.12.2012

Other life sciences

A cheap and effective way to isolate cancer cells from the blood

Researchers from the University of Michigan decided to get rid of expensive antibodies and capture freely circulating cancer cells only on the basis of their affinity for rough surfaces.

14.12.2012

Biomedicine

Mircludex B against hepatitis B

The company "Hepatera" begins conducting a clinical trial of the Ib-IIa phase of the drug Mircludex B, intended for the treatment of chronic viral hepatitis B.

13.12.2012

Grants and competitions

The Nanolympics are rushing into the future for the seventh time

The Seventh All-Russian Internet Olympiad in Nanotechnology continues the traditions of the Internet Olympiad, held since 2006.

13.12.2012

Grants and competitions

Summer educational program in Lausanne

University students studying biology, physics, chemistry, bioengineering, computer disciplines and planning to specialize further in the "Life sciences" are invited to participate in the competition.

13.12.2012

Biomedicine

The new antidepressant works long and reliably

The results of the phase 2 clinical trial of the first-of-its-kind experimental drug for the treatment of depression GLYX-13 are promising.

13.12.2012

Other life sciences

How will we live without antibiotics?

The appearance of antibiotics in the forties of the last century revolutionized medicine. But modern microbiologists fear that this revolution is coming to an end.

13.12.2012

Various

Pharmaceutical companies are emerging from the innovation crisis

In fiscal 2012, which ended in September, the FDA approved 31 new medicines, which was one of the best results in the last decade.

13.12.2012

New in Gerontology

The role of epigenetic effects of nutrition in healthy aging

The appearance of molecular modifications of genes, known as epigenetic markers, is mainly due to aging, but the diet has a certain influence on the process of their appearance.

13.12.2012