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Nanotechnology

Reading genomes for ridiculous money

Reading the human genome is now cheaper than "Zhiguli". The new method of "DNA nanosheets" allowed to reduce the consumption of reagents and their quality requirements. The procedure takes about a day.

09.11.2009
Other life sciences

Implantable silk-based microchips

Biodegradable silk-backed microchips will soon be used to produce efficient interfaces between the nervous system and external devices, as well as LED tattoos.

09.11.2009
Cellular technologies

Stem cell spray for the treatment of burns

Stem cell spray can become an alternative to skin transplantation in the treatment of burns and find application in cosmetic medicine.

09.11.2009
Healthy skepticism

Non-Medical Runet

The websites of pharmaceutical companies and clinics and artificial medical portals are a department of the advertising industry, and it is incorrect to call them "medical Runet". But there are more interesting network phenomena that are growing within the near-medical Internet communities.

06.11.2009
Biomedicine

Innovative technologies in laboratory diagnostics

Modern diagnostics means not just the detection of the disease at an early stage, but rather the statement of the risk of a disease that has not yet begun. What is happening now in the so-called personalized and, let's pay attention, already practical medicine, impresses even professionals.

06.11.2009
Nanotechnology

Carbon nanotubes for diagnosis and treatment

The use of nanotubes in medicine has already led to some results in vivo. In the near future, new results of the use of nanotubes for the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases are expected.

06.11.2009
Other life sciences

Will a person learn to read thoughts?

A common brain scanning technique allows you to determine what a person is thinking at a certain moment. Does this mean the emergence of mind-reading technologies?

05.11.2009
Various

Scenarios for the development of medicine – full text of the document

The forecast of the development of medical technologies is based on the assessment of changes in supply and demand in the markets. The analysis focuses on the commercial development of new technologies, the conditions of their mass introduction, as well as the opportunities and limitations for their production in Russia.

04.11.2009
Genetics

Genes of aggressiveness – a mitigating circumstance?

An Italian court has reduced the sentence for murder after the defendant was found to have "aggressive genes". Lawyers around the world are increasingly trying to use MAO-A deficiency and similar genetic factors to protect the accused.

02.11.2009
Various

Will Russia be left without science?

Russia has 5-7 years left so that scientists and teachers of the older generation have time to prepare a new generation for science, education and high-tech industries.

30.10.2009
Cellular technologies

Eggs and spermatozoa from stem cells

It's still a long way to the clinic. But the fundamental possibility of obtaining germ cells from stem cells has already been confirmed.

30.10.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Russian pharmaceutical production ordered to expand and deepen

In general, as experts note, such a program (a Strategy for the development of the pharmaceutical industry for the period up to 2020) is necessary, even with some (so in the original – VM) utopianness of its main provisions.

29.10.2009
Genetics

Schizophrenia, autism and genetics

Psychiatrists and geneticists have found that doubling a small area on chromosome 16 increases the risk of developing schizophrenia by 8 times. Medical genetics has already encountered this site: its removal leads to the development of autism.

27.10.2009