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Controversial

Homo bionics – bionic man

Thanks to the latest prostheses and implants, improved integration with the nervous system, as well as compact but powerful energy sources, a person will be able to completely transform. After all, the potential of bionics is truly limitless…

24.06.2010
Genetics

Genetic testing: a dog is a human friend!

Dozens of tests have been developed to determine the predisposition of dogs and cats to genetically determined diseases and genes that determine the color and length of the coat. Such a gene analysis can be done both in Russia and in the former Soviet republics.

24.06.2010
Biotechnologies - into life

Biotechnology in Russia: hope dies last

Five years of talking about the need to develop biotechnologies have not led to tangible results. Out of a couple dozen projects that have opened, only a few have been successful, many have died. But hope lives on.

22.06.2010
Genetics

The brilliance and poverty of medical genetics

By the end of the 30s, medical genetics in the USSR met the highest international standards. But its development was abruptly interrupted, and until now medical genetics in Russia is noticeably lagging behind the level of developed countries.

22.06.2010
Biotechnologies - into life

How to make money on molecular biology?

Research in the field of molecular biology allowed Alexey Pogoda to earn 3 million rubles. Now he is bringing test systems to the market to determine hereditary diseases.

21.06.2010
Biomedicine

HIV gene therapy is at least safe

The technique consists in transplanting the patient's own blood stem cells, the DNA of which includes three therapeutic genes that protect cells from HIV.

21.06.2010
Nanotechnology

Smoke a nanotube?

A membrane with carbon nanotubes will allow nicotine to be delivered to the body not constantly, like a nicotine patch, but at the moment when it is most needed by a person trying to quit smoking.

21.06.2010
New in Gerontology

Fuzzy logic of aging

The so-called fuzzy logic helped scientists to build a mathematical model of cell aging. This model will allow us to advance in understanding the nature of aging.

21.06.2010
Note to the businessman

Personalized medicine and genomics at the International Economic Forum

The achievements of genomics will make medicine more personalized in the near future, but there are both scientific and economic obstacles on this path, according to the participants of the panel session "What's after the genome?", which took place on Friday as part of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

21.06.2010
Your health

"Viagra for ladies" is covered

As it turned out as a result of testing another "female Viagra", its effect does not differ from placebo, but causes significant side effects: depression, fainting, dizziness.

18.06.2010
Innovative Russia

Achilles and the Turtle of Russian Innovation

In the countries of catching up development, to which Russia belongs, innovation processes occur quite differently from those we are trying to catch up with.

18.06.2010
Biotechnologies - into life

Pharmaceuticals with a human face

A breakthrough is being prepared in the pharmaceutical market. Pharmaceutical companies, in parallel with the production of medicines, are beginning to develop the latest methods and diagnostics for the treatment of patients.

18.06.2010
Cellular technologies

Let's make a new liver out of the old one

Specialists at the Massachusetts General Hospital were able to transplant liver grown from healthy cells to rats. However, before that they had to clear the carcass of the old organ from the cells.

17.06.2010
New in Gerontology

How to increase life expectancy by a third?

Scientists have identified a set of genes, blocking which allows to increase the lifespan of worms by almost 30%. The most active of these genes, Ash-2, is responsible for the synthesis of a protein involved in histone methylation.

17.06.2010
Biomedicine

Cancer Treatment: waiting for a breakthrough

According to James Watson, a revolution in biology will occur in the field of cancer treatment. Here we can expect breakthrough results in the next five years.

17.06.2010
Grants and competitions

Science and Nanofantastics

Within the framework of the All–Russian competition "Science to Society", the journal "Russian Nanotechnologies" established the nomination "Nanofiction" for short stories and novellas in the genre of science fiction, the creation of which the authors were inspired by nanotechnology.

17.06.2010