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Nanotechnology

Synthetic platelets will stop the bleeding

Nanoparticles with platelet properties stimulate the formation of a blood clot twice as fast as the most expensive drug to stop uncontrolled bleeding.

21.12.2009
Genetics

Personalized medicine: the panacea is late

The personalized medicine boat is stuck on the reefs of unresolved biotechnological problems. Is there an opportunity to change the situation for the better?

21.12.2009
Cellular technologies

Artificial leather for the burned – "on the knee" and on enthusiasm

Skin cells are grown at the Institute of Cytology for transplantation to patients injured during a fire in Perm. On a voluntary basis: no one pays for it, and there has been no biotechnological production, which the developers of "artificial leather" have been insisting on creating for several years.

21.12.2009
Other life sciences

Microbiologists draw with bacteria

Some of the masterpieces of creative microbiologists using Petri dishes instead of canvas and bacteria instead of paints.

18.12.2009
Various

The main discoveries of 2009 according to the journal Science

The top ten most important discoveries of the year, according to Science, included experiments to prolong the life of mice using rapamycin, the study of the mechanism of drought resistance in corn and the success of gene therapy.

18.12.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Innovations in life science: the "hot ten" of 2009

The Scientist magazine convened a jury of competent experts whose task was to select the ten best innovations that appeared on the market of devices and methods for conducting research in the field of life science in 2009.

16.12.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Innovations in the field of life sciences-2009: No. 1

For the first time, Shen Ding and his colleagues induced pluripotency of fibroblasts in mouse embryos exclusively with the help of proteins, without using genetic modification methods.

16.12.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Innovations in the field of life sciences-2009: No. 6

Olympus has introduced the world's first autonomous confocal microscope that allows you to create three-dimensional images, and an autonomous microscope that allows you to conduct fluorescent studies and work using the light field method.

16.12.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Innovations in the field of life sciences-2009: No. 7

The genome is so large and messy that a complete analysis of the information causes great difficulties for specialists. HybSelect DNA microchips allow us to identify regions of the genome that play an important role in the development of a particular disease.

16.12.2009