Inflated billions
In the laboratory of Theranos, which brought its founder Elizabeth Holmes the title of the youngest female billionaire, serious shortcomings have been revealed.
27.01.2016In the laboratory of Theranos, which brought its founder Elizabeth Holmes the title of the youngest female billionaire, serious shortcomings have been revealed.
27.01.2016American scientists have developed a miniature hand-held microscope that allows recognizing malignant neoplasms at the cellular level during surgery or examination.
27.01.2016Wireless biosensors tested in vitro and in laboratory rats are not inferior to wired analogues and dissolve in the cerebrospinal fluid of live rats for several days without side effects.
26.01.2016Is it possible to put a person's consciousness in a test tube when it will be possible to create an avatar for people and why potentially possible immortality is not the most attractive scenario of human life.
26.01.2016Just three years after discovering its potential in gene editing, the new CRISPR technique has become the hottest and most controversial in the field of genomics. And now it's more than science: it's big business.
26.01.2016Researchers from the USA and the UK have improved one of the methods of studying the connections between neurons. To do this, they genetically modified the rabies virus.
25.01.2016A new technology based on the use of magnetic nanoparticles instead of fluorescent markers will make the procedure of biochemical analysis of liquids many times more accurate – and at the same time as easy to use as a pregnancy test.
25.01.2016The graft does not just take root on the rootstock plant, but also actively exchanges epigenetic information with it. The scale of this process has been greatly underestimated before.
25.01.2016More than 30 million rubles were spent on preclinical trials of a universal vaccine developed at the St. Petersburg Influenza Research Institute, clinical trials will require two or three more years of work and 30-40 million rubles of investments.
22.01.2016The Atlas biomedical holding, together with the Knomix company and the experts of the FHM Research Institute, launched the OhmyGut research project (for those who do not know English: the name of the project is a pun that sounds almost like "Oh my God").
22.01.2016Scientists are skeptical about the statement of the Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero about a successful head transplant to a monkey and consider a human head transplant operation unacceptable.
22.01.2016Regular orgasm in men (at least 21 times a month) reduces the risk of prostate cancer by 22% compared to those who manage seven or less ejaculations, regardless of the method of achieving it.
22.01.2016According to the scientist, the use of a four-letter DNA language in the form of a binary code will allow storing huge amounts of information in plant DNA.
22.01.2016A crowdfunding company has started on Indeigogo, within which it is planned to raise money for the production of an unusual toothpaste – it will contain caffeine.
21.01.2016Is it possible to create an Ebola vaccine in a year and a half? Why is the information about the Russian vaccine intended exclusively for official use? And how can you defeat two strains of the virus "with one blow"?
21.01.2016Italian physician Sergio Canavero and his Chinese colleague Ren Xiaoting spoke about the results of unorthodox experiments on "gluing" the severed spinal cord in rodents and a complete head transplant in monkeys.
19.01.2016The sperm, dressed in an exoskeleton, reaches the egg with "dizzying" speed, and the microdrive even helps it to get inside, making the fertilization process as easy as possible
17.01.2016A group of scientists from Germany, America and Russia has proposed an algorithm that automates and makes the search for genes more efficient. In the 2 months since the publication of the article, the computer program has been downloaded by more than 1,500 different centers and laboratories around the world.
14.01.2016Researchers from the Weizmann Institute have revised the popular opinion about the ratio of the number of cells of the human body and its symbiont bacteria.
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