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Frozen ovary in childhood allowed to give birth to a child

For the first time, doctors achieved the birth of a healthy child in a patient whose reproductive function was restored by transplanting the tissue of her own ovary, removed and cryopreserved in childhood.

11.06.2015
Other life sciences

Blood Type Affects Brain Health

People with "zero" (I) blood type have more gray matter in the posterior part of the cerebellum, as well as in the temporal and limbic lobes of the cerebral hemispheres, which makes them more protected from Alzheimer's disease.

10.06.2015
Genetics

Genius and Madness

Variants of genes associated with genius and creativity largely coincide with versions of the same DNA fragments that are associated with increased exposure to schizophrenia and manic-depressive psychosis.

10.06.2015
Other life sciences

Unique transplantation

American doctors performed the world's first successful operation to transplant a part of the skull together with the skin.

10.06.2015
Genetics

Genomics against orphan diseases

Postgenomic medicine will allow you to prevent the development of diseases that are now considered incurable in advance.

10.06.2015
Other life sciences

Sick humanity

Only 5% of the world's population is healthy, and about a third of us suffer from five or more diseases at the same time, which indicates the need for a complete reformatting of the healthcare system.

09.06.2015
Cellular technologies

Cellular technologies: present and future

"The future of medicine belongs to cellular technologies" – you hear this phrase more and more often. Is everything really going to the point that cellular technologies will replace the pill in the treatment technique?

09.06.2015
Genetics

Blockade genes

Most of the 206 study participants who survived the siege of Leningrad had three variants of alleles (different forms of the same gene) associated with a more economical metabolism.

09.06.2015
Genetic engineering

Silk instead of beer

Silk grown in the laboratory with the help of sugar and yeast may soon become stronger, more elastic and softer than the natural material produced by silkworms and spiders

08.06.2015
Other life sciences

The technique of head transplantation has been worked out on mice

Surgeon Xiaoping Ren from Harbin Medical University is conducting experiments on head transplantation. Now the professor is operating on mice, this summer he plans to switch to monkeys and admits the possibility of such an operation for humans.

08.06.2015
Genetics

Choosing a service for cloud genomics

Research institutes and pharmaceutical companies will have to choose between two "cloud" services for storing human genome data - Google Genomics and Amazon Web Services.

08.06.2015
Biomedicine

Vladimir Uiba: The future belongs to personalized medicine

You came to the clinic, went to the doctor. You are being treated according to the accepted standard. Is this the best option for medical care? With the answer to this question, a conversation began with the head of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency, Professor Vladimir Uiba.

05.06.2015
Biomedicine

VirScan – "time machine" for virologists

Harvard scientists have created a universal virus detector VirScan, which reveals the history of human infection with various viruses over his entire life, using just one drop of blood, and one such test will cost only $ 25.

05.06.2015
New in Gerontology

It's time to add aging to the list of diseases

The universality of aging does not exclude its belonging to diseases, but rather indicates that it is a special form of the disease. Even considering that aging is a natural process, it should not fall out of the scope of medicine.

04.06.2015
Cellular technologies

The world's first rat's foot from a bioreactor

By placing a "frame" made from a damaged limb and stem cells of muscles, blood vessels and connective tissue in a special bioreactor, scientists received a full-fledged limb in a few weeks, with the exception of nerves missing in it.

04.06.2015
Prolonging youth

Aging muscles need to blow the carburetor

According to the head of the study, the correct operation of the "carburetor" – the enzyme AMP-protein kinase – is an important factor in slowing down muscle aging. AMPK can be "turned on" with the help of charging and a number of medications that are used to combat type 2 diabetes.

03.06.2015