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Cellular technologies

Artificial trachea: technology is being improved

The difference between the Krasnodar operation and the Moscow one is that the frame of the trachea and part of the larynx was not taken from a donor, but prepared artificially. It is planned to carry out a series of such transplants within the framework of the megagrant.

25.06.2012
Your health

We are forced to poison you, Russians

Farmers and producers of agricultural products in private conversations say that most of the products on the Russian markets are counterfeit.

22.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Italians in Russia: tracheal and laryngeal bioprosthesis

The first tracheal and laryngeal transplant operation in Russia was successfully performed at the Krasnodar Regional Clinical Hospital under the guidance of Paolo Macchiarini, Professor of Regenerative Surgery at the Karolinska Institute.

22.06.2012
Your health

Treat diabetes – stay sane longer

In elderly people with diabetes (especially those who do not care about lowering blood sugar), senile dementia progresses much faster than in their healthy peers.

22.06.2012
New in Gerontology

Lonely old age is a risk factor

Elderly people who feel lonely are characterized by a 59% higher risk of deterioration of health and a 45% higher risk of death.

20.06.2012
Grants and competitions

Competition of St. Petersburg grants

Subsidies are provided on a gratuitous and irrevocable basis to the winners of the competition of projects in the field of scientific and scientific-technical activities: up to 100 thousand rubles. for individuals and up to 200 thousand – for legal entities.

20.06.2012
Innovative Russia

Should we wash these technoparks or make new ones?

The technopark in Russia is being created for the sake of the technopark itself, and the achievement of its goal – the catalyzation of innovations – is lost in the three pines of economic, organizational and political interests.

20.06.2012
Various

Who is the thickest in the world :?)

All adults on the planet collectively weigh 285 million tons. At the same time, 15 million are overweight and 3.5 million are obese. The highest local body mass index is in North America.

20.06.2012
Your health

Once again about dirt and allergies

Western doctors claim that people who have grown up have the highest immunity... in unsanitary conditions. In a word, if today you forbid your child to dig in the dirt from morning to evening, then tomorrow you will have to take him to an allergist...

19.06.2012
Cellular technologies

The time of stem cells is approaching

More and more methods of using stem cells for the treatment of various diseases, including hereditary and age-related, are approaching clinical practice.

19.06.2012
New in Gerontology

A new way to fight aging and cancer?

Experts hope that preventing the development of cancer and other age-related diseases will only be a side effect of drugs developed based on the results of their work. The main result will be a slowdown in the aging process.

19.06.2012
Prolonging youth

We will make you live longer!

Chief therapist of Russia A.Chuchalin: "If we have an effective fight against tobacco smoking, then plus 10-15 years to the life (of the population)... If it works (the anti-smoking law), then we will come to this result."

19.06.2012
Nanotechnology

Plug the firefly into the socket

Nanorods that mimic the work of the luciferin pigment and the luciferase enzyme in the body of a firefly allow you to create a lighting system that will be much more efficient than LED lamps.

19.06.2012
Other life sciences

Cloud bioinformatics for "-omics"

The questions of where to store, how to store and how to provide access to the data that proteomics, genomics, microbiomics and other so-called "-omics" allow bioinformatic cloud technologies to answer.

19.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Corneal endothelium: cell therapy instead of transplantation

The work of Japanese scientists gives hope for the development of new methods of treating not only corneal endothelial dysfunction – the main cause of severe visual impairment, but also a number of other pathologies.

18.06.2012