Your health
Experiments on yourself
Cardiologist Yaroslav Ashikhmin on why it is dangerous to try to control the biochemistry of your body manually.
20.11.2018- English version
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Biomedicine
Swallow the asterisk
Scientists have tested for the first time on humans an experimental "star" system containing a weekly dose of medication in one capsule.
20.11.2018
Bioethics
Mixed reality of dystopias
Is the progress of technology ahead of our ethics and will the values formed by the XX century withstand the challenges of the new time?
20.11.2018
Genetic engineering
Gene therapy of Joubert syndrome
Using artificial DNA, scientists have blocked the work of a mutant gene in mice with hereditary renal insufficiency.
20.11.2018
Other life sciences
Minutes instead of months
BioJupies automatically performs statistical analysis of the "map of working genes" and allows you to exchange this information with colleagues.
20.11.2018
New in Gerontology
Squirrel on guard of youth
Klotho protein performs the function of a guardian protecting the brain from the effects of the peripheral immune system.
19.11.2018
Nanotechnology
Analyzes: fast and cheap
The cheap portable enVision platform provides qualitative and quantitative detection of various diseases.
19.11.2018
Various
A moratorium on gene drive?
A temporary ban on such experiments will be the main topic of the next meeting of the participants of the UN Convention on Biodiversity.
19.11.2018
Other life sciences
Xenografts on the threshold
The first clinical studies on the transplantation of organs of genetically modified pigs to humans will start in the near future.
19.11.2018
Biomedicine
Everything is poison, everything is medicine
Scientists from Barcelona have developed an unusual way of delivering drugs directly to the brain – it is based on scorpion venom.
19.11.2018
Nanotechnology
Oxygen for the tumor
Understanding how nanoparticles produce oxygen when illuminated by a laser will increase their effectiveness in the treatment of cancer.
19.11.2018
Theories of aging
Three theories of aging and ways to beat it
Alpina Non-fiction Publishing house publishes a new book by physicist and science popularizer Michio Kaku.
16.11.2018
Your health
Proteins are useful for old people
The use of large amounts of proteins in old age prevents the development of disability.
16.11.2018
Other life sciences
The Key to early cancer diagnosis
The new biomarker identifies a tumor not only at a curable stage, but also at a precancerous one.
16.11.2018
Nanotechnology
Yeast with backlight
Yeast studded with light-trapping nanoparticles is becoming much more efficient in the industrial synthesis of valuable substances.
16.11.2018
Note to the businessman
Medicine-2019
The main trends in global healthcare in the coming year are artificial intelligence systems and blockchain.
16.11.2018
Other life sciences
Smart clothes and bionic prostheses
The "Myo interface" reads the electromyogram of the hand, recognizes gestures and converts them into commands for devices.
16.11.2018
Biomedicine
Epigenetics, not mutations
A new method of liquid biopsy determines any type of cancer at the earliest stage by epigenetic changes in DNA.
16.11.2018
Biomedicine
CRISPR for the diagnosis of diseases
Mammoth Biosciences company intends to make the diagnosis of a variety of diseases simple and accessible.
15.11.2018
Other life sciences
A real Indian…
Observations of the life of the famous primitive "cruel people" of Yanomamo have shown that they do not suffer from hypertension in old age.
15.11.2018