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Note to the businessman

Siesta – in every office!

An hour's break for sleep during the working day has a beneficial effect on the emotional state and working capacity of workers.

01.07.2015
Nanotechnology

Hybrid engine for nanoparticles

Scientists from the University of California at San Diego have created hybrid nanoparticles, the movement of which can be controlled using both ultrasound and a magnetic field.

01.07.2015
Nanotechnology

The Microbe Hunter

The developers of the biosensor plan to bring its sensitivity to such a level that it will be able to detect single bacteria in a sample of material weighing 25 grams within two to three minutes.

01.07.2015
Controversial

The future is declassified

What awaits humanity in fifteen years? How can the latest technologies affect human life? Matthew Burrows, author of the book "The Future: Declassified. What will the world be like in 2030" tried to look into the future to answer these questions.

01.07.2015
Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology in medicine: Part 2

In the second part of the review, we will talk about overcoming the blood-brain barrier, metal nanoparticles and the problem of toxicity.

01.07.2015
Grants and competitions

Postgraduate studies in Austria

The Vienna University of Natural Resources and Natural Sciences invites specialists with a master's degree and completing a master's degree to participate in a competition for postgraduate studies in Biomolecular Technology of Proteins.

30.06.2015
Genetics

The Daylight Saving Time gene

Japanese biologists have found a special gene and a system of nerve cells that help our body "sense" the onset of summer by how the length of the day changes, and switch to a more active lifestyle.

30.06.2015
Genetic engineering

Super-meat breed of pigs

Chinese geneticists brought it out with one precise intervention, directly "knocking out" the myostatin gene. What would have required at least decades of work with conventional breeding was done in months.

30.06.2015
Cellular technologies

A new step to victory over a heart attack

In the hearts of adult mice, it was possible to find cells due to which the myocardium can recover from damage. I would like to hope that the same cells can be found in the human heart.

30.06.2015
Various

The Internet will become part of our DNA

In the head of the artist Neil Harbisson, who suffers from color blindness, there is an implanted antenna that converts the colors surrounding him into sounds. He has been living with this antenna for ten years and does not turn it off even when he goes to sleep.

30.06.2015
Innovative Russia

Novosibirsk Academic Park

Today there are four clusters in the technopark: instrument-making, IT-technologies, nanotechnologies and new materials, biotechnologies and biomedicine.

30.06.2015
Your health

Fasting: benefits and risks

Many people resort to fasting in order to lose weight and improve their health. Is it advisable?

30.06.2015
Various

James Watson's Exclusive Interview

Nobel Prize winner – about a cure for cancer, the future of personalized medicine and the complexities of DNA research.

29.06.2015
Other life sciences

Take care of your great-grandchildren!

For the viability of a descendant, it is important at what age his father gave birth to him, his father's grandfather, and grandfather's great–grandfather. Perhaps this effect has a genetic nature: fitness decreases due to the accumulation of mutations over several generations.

29.06.2015
Nanotechnology

Nanostructured hydrogel of prolonged action

Dextran hydrogel makes it possible to extend the half-life of hepatitis C drugs by 10 times. This enhances their therapeutic effect, and also allows the patient to inject less often.

29.06.2015
Genetic engineering

Discussion about GMOs

Transcript of an open discussion held by the Initiative Group "Think" on June 10, 2015 in the great hall of Kazan Federal University.

29.06.2015
Nanotechnology

Nanorobots-tadpoles

Nanorobots, capable of moving quickly and easily in liquids even more viscous than blood and delivering drugs precisely to the target, are controlled by an alternating magnetic field that causes them to bend and move like tadpoles.

29.06.2015
Other life sciences

"Robot avatar" for paraplegics

Scientists from the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne presented the result of their long-term project to create a remotely controlled mobile robot, which can be commanded using the "power of thought".

26.06.2015
Prolonging youth

Unexpected side effect

An international group of molecular biologists has found out that trametinib, a drug for the treatment of melanoma, prolongs the life of fruit flies by 12% due to its effect on genes responsible for the rate of metabolism and aging.

26.06.2015