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The express system developed by St. Petersburg State University students helps to conduct tests for cholesterol, hormones, myoglobin, histamine, blood clotting factors, vitamins and much more.

16.05.2017
Cellular technologies

A new way to treat diabetes

Beta cells of the pancreas transplanted to the surface of the omentum ensured the patient's independence from insulin injections in type 1 diabetes.

16.05.2017
Genetics

New adventures of the Weismanists-Morganists

This boring article about genetics is designed to permanently discourage the reader from talking about natural selection and other matters inaccessible to him.

16.05.2017
Various

Food in the trash

Every year, about a third of all manufactured food products are thrown away in the world. It is sent to the landfill by manufacturers, large store chains, and buyers.

16.05.2017
Biomedicine

Molecular contraception

Two plant compounds, pristimerin and lupeol, may become a new generation of emergency contraception, which the authors called "molecular condoms".

16.05.2017
Other life sciences

The tumbler exoskeleton

Researchers from the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne have developed a new lightweight exoskeleton that should save elderly people from accidental falls.

15.05.2017
Prolonging youth

Prolonging youth is not for the lazy

The "old age pill" should be looked for not in a pharmacy, but in a gym. Intensive physical exercises can slow down the aging process at the cellular level.

15.05.2017
Other life sciences

The cause of stroke is intestinal microflora

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have found out that the formation of thin-walled dilated vessels in the brain is influenced by the composition of the intestinal microflora.

15.05.2017
Other life sciences

How a lymphocyte feels for antigens

A group of scientists from the USA and Spain has developed a method that allows you to get a three-dimensional visualization of the work of T-lymphocytes in real time.

15.05.2017
Other life sciences

Live Printing

Using a model of a human hand, scientists from the University of Minnesota have shown that using a 3D printer, it is possible to print a pressure sensor directly on the skin in a few minutes.

15.05.2017
Genetics

Switch of carcinogenesis

The transformation of a "good" tumor into a "bad" one is accompanied by the inclusion of molecular signals that encourage some cells to multiply with a vengeance.

15.05.2017
Biomedicine

The first in half a century

Scientists from the University of Illinois for the first time in the last fifty years managed to create a compound that will serve as the basis for a new line of antibiotics.

15.05.2017
Genetic engineering

Resveratrol from cell cultures

Using the methods of regulating the biosynthesis of valuable substances, scientists were able to increase the content of resveratrol in grape cell cultures by 100 times (up to 3% of the dry weight).

15.05.2017
Prolonging youth

Getting old without getting old

Director of the Leiden Academy of Vital Activity and Aging – about atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction and mortality from cardiovascular diseases.

12.05.2017
Grants and competitions

The Triumph Contest

The competition is organized by the international company IVAO. Triumph is an international competition of biotechnological projects for young entrepreneurs.

12.05.2017
Biomedicine

Hunting for the pancreas

Perhaps someday the diagnosis of "type 1 diabetes mellitus" will disappear from the list of lifelong serious diseases, and people with a predisposition to it will be able to breathe easy.

12.05.2017
Nanotechnology

Nanocontainers in the fight against influenza

In order for the therapeutic molecule to get into the right cell and at the same time retain its properties, it needs to be packed in a capsule. Specially for antiviral RNA, it was developed by scientists from TPU.

12.05.2017
Biomedicine

CAR T cells obtained in situ (in vivo)

The new technology is still far from clinical application, but there is hope that it will become the basis for a relatively inexpensive and widely available application of CAR-T.

12.05.2017