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The damaged nerve was printed "nerve line"

A group of American scientists created a framework for nerves using 3D printing. The design allows you to restore sensory and motor functions after injury.

21.09.2015
Genetics

Educational program on DNA reading technologies

Sequencing (from sequence – sequence) is called determining the order of elementary units of monomers in a polymer. Moreover, this polymer can be not only DNA or RNA, but also, for example, a protein or even a polysaccharide.

18.09.2015
New in Gerontology

The liver ages faster than the brain

The authors of the article published in the journal Cell Systems claim: the aging of the body largely depends on the processes that occur over time with each specific type of cells in our body

18.09.2015
Bioethics

Sergey Gauthier: "Black transplantation is impossible in Russia"

We are talking about fictional and real pain points of the industry with the director of the Academician V.I. Shumakov Federal Research Center for Transplantology and Artificial Organs, chief transplantologist of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Sergey Gauthier.

18.09.2015
Bioethics

"A head transplant now is complete nonsense"

Paolo Macchiarini, a surgeon working in Russia, spoke about the accusations against him and his rehabilitation, about the development of medical science in Russia and why a head transplant operation is impossible.

17.09.2015
Other life sciences

Perfect vision for life

The Ocumetics Bionic Lens Bionic Lens can not only solve problems with visual acuity once and for all, but also allow you to forget about the existence of glasses or contact lenses.

17.09.2015
Other life sciences

Neurotechnologies return touch to paralyzed people

A 28-year–old patient who has been paralyzed for more than ten years (the cause is spinal cord injury) can again "touch" various objects. This was made possible thanks to a prosthetic arm connected to the human brain

17.09.2015
Other life sciences

Is metabolic syndrome an autoimmune disease?

Researchers have found that when laboratory mice lack a certain type of immune cells, they become obese and show other signs of metabolic syndrome.

16.09.2015
Biomedicine

Alzheimer's disease and resveratrol

The largest clinical study of resveratrol on subjects with Alzheimer's disease showed stabilization of the biomarker, which usually decreases with the progression of the disease.

16.09.2015
Prolonging youth

Stop aging

Some animals manage not to grow old; by examining them, it may be possible to rid a person of this scourge.

15.09.2015
Other life sciences

Edges from the printer

The owner of the new titanium ribs and sternum was a 54-year-old man from Spain who suffered from chest wall sarcoma.

15.09.2015
Prolonging youth

Geroprotectors for fruit flies and nematodes

Scientists from MIPT were able to increase the life span of fruit flies and C.elegans nematodes by adding carotenoids to their diet - substances contained in large quantities in brown algae and in orange fruits and vegetables, for example, carrots.

15.09.2015
Other life sciences

Diabetes and antibiotics

Antibiotics may be one of the driving factors in the current global epidemic of type 2 diabetes, Danish doctors have found out, who studied the medical history of 170 thousand diabetics.

14.09.2015
Other life sciences

Cancer diagnosis without biomarkers

The method is based on forced Raman scattering microscopy (Raman effect) and allows for non-invasive diagnosis of skin cancer, as well as to quickly assess the aggressiveness of cancer cells.

14.09.2015
Other life sciences

Optimization of energy consumption

Canadian neurophysiologists have found out that our brain and body are "charged" to save energy and strength as much as possible during even such simple actions as walking.

14.09.2015