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Nanotechnology

LCD display on the skin

The ultra-thin and ultra-flexible protective coating will allow the development of skin displays for visualizing blood oxygen levels, heart rate and many other purposes.

19.04.2016
Biomedicine

Cancer therapy

Tumors obey the same rules of natural selection as other living creatures. Practitioners today are beginning to use this knowledge.

19.04.2016
Various

Android made in China

The robot, which is difficult to distinguish from a living person, was developed by scientists from the Chinese University of Science and Technology, who put artificial intelligence and deep self-learning functions into its electronic "brain".

19.04.2016
Controversial

The New Frankenstein

The whole project took more than 11 years. But the results were worth it: a fully modular body was created, for which there are many different configurations.

19.04.2016
New in Gerontology

Immune System Proteins Kill Synapses

In the early stages of the body's development, proteins of the main histocompatibility complex of class I endow the body with the ability to control muscles, but deprive it of this ability in old age.

18.04.2016
Cellular technologies

Choose the best

To use iPSC for treatment, at least a dozen cells should be isolated, and then use one of them with the best mitochondria to create a therapeutic cell line.

18.04.2016
Genetics

Microbes and bacteriophages: an arms race

The end of this race is not in sight, and it is unlikely that anyone will come out of it the final winner. However, knowledge of its mechanisms will allow people to at least partially take control of it in the future.

18.04.2016
Genetic engineering

Origami from synthetic DNA

Volumetric structures made of synthetic DNA can improve drug delivery systems: they persist in blood plasma several times longer than "origami" made of natural DNA.

18.04.2016
Biomedicine

Helminths and Crohn's disease: new data

Some parasitic worms can prevent Crohn's disease and other inflammatory bowel diseases by affecting the composition of its microflora.

15.04.2016
Other life sciences

Cooperation with the occupiers

Cancer cells are able to force healthy cells to help their reproduction. To do this, they use a mutated gene responsible for cell division.

15.04.2016
Cellular technologies

Know-how of scientists from Salk

In the next few years, the developers of a simple, fast and inexpensive way to obtain human pancreatic beta cells hope to begin clinical research.

15.04.2016
Biomedicine

A new target for male contraception

The TSSK2 enzyme appears in the last stages of sperm formation, and suppression of its activity will show a minimum of side effects.

15.04.2016
Your health

Eat butter, butter, gentlemen!

Replacing butter with vegetable fats rich in linoleic acid leads to a decrease in cholesterol levels in the blood, but does not affect the indicators of cardiovascular diseases.

14.04.2016
Other life sciences

Partial and temporary, but a victory

The first case in the history of medicine: a brain implant allowed a completely paralyzed person to control his hand. Unfortunately, the funding of the scientific project is coming to an end…

14.04.2016
Other life sciences

Why study capsid structures?

There are hundreds of places on the shells of viruses to which molecules can be attached, allowing the diagnosis and treatment of malignant tumors.

14.04.2016
Biomedicine

Sugar against atherosclerosis

Carbohydrates cyclodextrins inhibit the development of new atherosclerotic plaques in the vessels and help the old ones to dissolve.

14.04.2016
Genetics

Universal "aging genes"

Different species (C.elegans roundworms, fruit flies, mice and humans) have both species-specific and several dozen common mechanisms of aging and mortality.

14.04.2016
Your health

Esophageal cancer

One of the most characteristic malignant tumors of an elderly person is esophageal cancer. Much in the prevention of esophageal cancer and in its early detection depends on the patient himself.

13.04.2016
Genetic engineering

GM-mosquitoes fly to the rescue

The Brazilian authorities have allowed the release of genetically modified mosquitoes, which should reduce the population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that spread the Zika virus.

13.04.2016