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Biomedicine

AQ-13 against malaria

Researchers have managed to create a new drug to combat resistant strains of malaria plasmodium, the causative agent of malaria.

19.09.2017
Genetics

The gene of a happy old age

When analyzing a huge database of life-shortening mutations, suspiciously few were found. Perhaps because they are swept away by natural selection.

18.09.2017
Controversial

From cybercrime to bioprime?

Hacking a bionic prosthesis, DNA intelligence, rhinovirus spam is not a complete list of crimes that await us in the probable future.

18.09.2017
Prolonging youth

How to Beat Aging

Over the past decades, many different approaches have been proposed, and all of them are united only by how ineffective they are.

18.09.2017
Nanotechnology

Multicolored melanin

Structures consisting of melanin and silicon oxide nanoparticles can create any conceivable shade of color that does not degrade over time.

18.09.2017
Biotechnologies - into life

Moderna Therapeutics: Medicinal futurism

Interest in the achievements of Modern Therapeutics in the innovative therapeutic field based on matrix RNA (mRNA) is warmed up as never before.

18.09.2017
Nanotechnology

Patch instead of liposuction

The mass of fat on the side of the abdomen where the patch was glued was reduced by 20% just four weeks after the start of the experiment.

18.09.2017
Cellular technologies

Three-dimensional bone fragments

The new technology of "nanopinks" (nanokicking) allows to grow three-dimensional samples of mineralized bone tissue from mesenchymal stem cells.

15.09.2017
Biomedicine

Phage therapy

A return to phage therapy on a new scientific basis is also considered as an addition and alternative to existing antibiotics.

15.09.2017
Nanotechnology

"Paper" test for tuberculosis

The researchers suggest using a simple test: it is enough for the patient to moisten a paper strip with saliva, which will then change color.

15.09.2017
Other life sciences

Microbes interfere with cancer treatment

Scientists have discovered that the bacteria that often accompany pancreatic cancer allow the tumor to survive by destroying chemotherapy drugs.

15.09.2017
Healthy skepticism

The Nobel Prize-2017

At Harvard University, the authors of studies that first make you laugh, and then make you think, have received the Nobel Prizes for the 27th time.

15.09.2017
Nanotechnology

One injection instead of several

Depending on the composition, polymer microcapsules are destroyed at different times, releasing the next dose of the drug inside the patient's body.

15.09.2017
Other life sciences

Again, the microflora is to blame

Two articles in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences linked the initiation of multiple sclerosis with the gut microbiota.

15.09.2017
Nanotechnology

Nanoclader

In 24 hours, one robot successfully sorted six DNA molecules on a 58×58 nm substrate with fluorescent labels of two colors "sewn" to them.

15.09.2017
Various

Appetite and stress

A large-scale project to study eating behavior has shown that overeating or malnutrition in response to negative emotions is not genetically fixed.

15.09.2017
Grants and competitions

Helsnet Competition

Within the framework of the largest startup accelerator GenerationS from RVC, a nomination in the field of medical services and medicines was established.

15.09.2017
Grants and competitions

Biotechnologies and genomics in agriculture

The selection of projects in the nomination "Biotechnologies and genomics in the Agro-industrial complex" of the GenerationS-2017 startup accelerator has begun.

15.09.2017