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Healthy skepticism

Tens of billions for a placebo?

Merck managed to convince patients to spend $21 billion on an anticholesterol drug, the effectiveness of which is questionable.

25.12.2009
Other life sciences

Virtual microfluidics

The method of controlled movement of particles in microfluidic systems using magnetic field-controlled chains of superparamagnetic micro beads can revolutionize microfluidics.

25.12.2009
Other life sciences

New sex hormone – for contraception and treatment

The discovery of a gonadotropin inhibitor in the human brain will force us to reconsider our views on the mechanisms of regulation of human reproduction and will allow us to develop new methods of contraception and treatment of infertility, premature puberty and cancer.

24.12.2009
Other life sciences

Bacteria turn gears

Bacteria randomly floating in the medium can set in motion micro gears suspended in the medium.

24.12.2009
Note to the businessman

The past year has been a turning point for the biotechnology industry

2012 should have an even stronger impact on the global biotechnology industry, when patent protection of hundreds of drugs will end. This fact is able to reverse the negative trend of the beginning of this year, when tens of thousands of biotechnologists were left on the street: big pharma will need new effective molecules.

23.12.2009
Genetics

The genome in Russia is bigger than the genome

The pathos of the "Russian human genome" is not very clear. There is already an international scientific project to decode thousands of genomes of people of different nationalities. Well, now there will be a thousand and one genomes.

23.12.2009
Your health

Movement comes with appetite

An organism that receives food too often falls into a vicious circle of inactivity, obesity and, ultimately, diabetes.

23.12.2009
New in Gerontology

Prolonging life and preventing cancer: less sugar!

Scientists have calculated two key genes that regulate the cellular response to sugar deficiency. The first one, hTERT, encodes the enzyme telomerase, which allows cells to divide indefinitely. The second, p16, encodes a protein that suppresses tumor development.

23.12.2009
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