Life Sciences

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Robots in medicine

Judging by the number of developments and the interest of various scientific groups, it can be argued that the creation of micro- and nanorobots has become the main direction in medical robotics.

10.12.2014
Other life sciences

Open innovations for medicine

Experts spoke about how to bring innovations to the mass market at the Open Innovation Talks "Robotics in Medicine" and the round table "Treatment at a Distance: New opportunities for telemedicine" within the framework of the Open Innovations Forum.

10.12.2014
Genetics

The legendary bio-school is gaining momentum

The theme of "Cerebellum"-2014 "Genomics and systems biology" continues the traditions laid down half a century ago. It is planned that the VII International School of Molecular Genetics will be held in November 2016.

08.12.2014
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Outsmarting Ebola together

You can join the new distributed computing project "Outsmart Ebola Together" by providing the extra computing power of your PC to search for molecules that can disarm the deadly virus.

08.12.2014
Genetics

Scandal in the royal family

The probability that the remains discovered in 2012 in a parking lot in Leicester are the bones of Richard III is 99.999%. At the same time, it was not possible to find a match in the genes of the monarch's male relatives.

05.12.2014
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On the way to cyborgization

How acceptable is a complete prosthetics of the body for a person as his main vital organs gradually fail? The author believes that technologically this will be possible in the next 25 years

04.12.2014
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Iodine-125 of domestic production

In June of this year, the only production of micro sources for low-dose brachytherapy in Russia started in Dubna. At the end of autumn, micro sources based on the isotope iodine-125 were implanted in the first patients with prostate cancer.

04.12.2014
Other life sciences

Neurons for Algernon

The level of intelligence of mice whose brains were injected with human embryonic nerve cells increased dramatically: for example, they remembered four times longer about the connection of a certain sound with a weak electric shock.

04.12.2014
New in Gerontology

Mediterranean diet slows down telomere shortening

According to the authors of another study on this topic, the Mediterranean diet leads to a reduction in the risk of cardiovascular diseases and a slowdown in the reduction of telomere sizes.

03.12.2014
Biomedicine

A new oncolytic virus

It has been established that the M1 virus, safe for humans and laboratory animals, is capable of causing destruction and lysis of cells of various malignant human tumors.

02.12.2014
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Not too "picky" enzyme

A new study provides a possible explanation for how one type of DNA damage leads to the development of cancer, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases and Alzheimer's disease.

02.12.2014
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HIV mutates and weakens, but the danger persists

Scientists emphasize that it will take a very long time before HIV becomes harmless, and before that happens, it is necessary to continue developing more effective drugs and affordable treatment to prevent the development of AIDS.

02.12.2014
Genetics

Our old friend ethanol

A person became addicted to alcohol long before he began to produce it, even long before he became a man. The ability to process ethanol originated in our ape-like ancestors 10 million years ago.

02.12.2014
Other life sciences

Three-dimensional model of the heart for cardiac surgeons

A life-size model of a particular patient's heart will allow the doctor to know in advance where to make an incision, how to redirect blood flow in the best way, as well as how to patch holes in the heart muscles.

01.12.2014