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Other life sciences

XL electrocardiograph and 58-size encephalograph

American researchers have developed a medical sensor that can read information for an electrocardiogram or electroencephalogram through clothing, without skin contact.

08.07.2010
Grants and competitions

Who is the best to recycle biomass?

The Editorial Board of the International Scientific Journal "Alternative Energy and Ecology" announces the contest "Technologies of biomass processing".

08.07.2010
Your health

The right to work less, which is not fulfilled

According to sanitary norms and rules, for office workers at a workplace temperature of 30 °, the working day can be reduced to five hours, at 31 ° – up to three, at 32 ° – up to two, at 32.5 ° – up to 1 hour. Will you try to achieve this?

08.07.2010
Genetic engineering

There is less and less garbage in the DNA

One of the DNA sequences, which belonged to non-coding ("garbage") sites, was involved in the synthesis of one of the most important proteins of the human body.

07.07.2010
Cellular technologies

Stem cells: Beware of fakes!

Leading stem cell researchers have created a website where patients can learn what stem cells are, how to distinguish real doctors from scammers, etc.

06.07.2010
New in Gerontology

"Longevity genes": the truth is born in disputes

The message about the discovery of 150 genetic causes of longevity met with a far from unambiguous reaction from scientists. Some researchers were skeptical about the news.

05.07.2010
Genetics

Ten thousand animal genomes

The main idea of the international 10K Genomes project is to read ten thousand genomes of different vertebrate species. This is more letters than all the books in the Library of Congress, the National Library of China and our Leninka contain.

05.07.2010
Cellular technologies

Umbilical cord blood in Ukraine: deaf, like in a bank

Last week, the court ended the consideration of the first claim in Ukraine: the Kievan Yu.Makusev accuses the bank "Gemafond" of infection of umbilical cord blood during sampling in the maternity hospital.

05.07.2010
Grants and competitions

Bayer Science Scholarships & Education Foundation

Funds will be allocated for training in the following specialties: biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, development and design of biotechnological processes, chemistry, chemical technologies, medicine, pharmaceuticals...

05.07.2010
New in Gerontology

Hereditary predisposition to a long life

Scientists have found 150 specific single-nucleotide polymorphisms in healthy old people in body and spirit, and have developed a method that allows predicting individual predisposition to a long life with high probability.

05.07.2010
Nanotechnology

Blood nanofiltration: after four years...

The construction of the Russian production of medical equipment for cascade filtration of blood plasma has begun. Serial production of unique medical equipment will begin in 2013.

02.07.2010
Nanotechnology

Radio-controlled nematodes, cells, ion channels...

With the help of magnetic nanoparticles heated by radio frequency radiation, the researchers forced nematodes to crawl in the right direction, and ion channels in cell membranes to open and close.

01.07.2010
Other life sciences

The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks

The well-known HeLa cell line is derived from cells taken from a cancer patient named Henrietta Lacks, who died in 1951. The HeLa cell line is used to study cancer and other diseases.

01.07.2010
Other life sciences

How to find the right gene in the genome?

The algorithm used by some Chinese search engines will help you find a gene common to different species or individual organisms in databases containing information about a variety of genomes.

01.07.2010
Biomedicine

When will the menopause come?

According to the concentration of anti-Muller hormone in the blood already in 30 and even 20 years, it is possible to determine quite accurately at what age menopause will begin.

30.06.2010