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Other life sciences

The technique of head transplantation has been worked out on mice

Surgeon Xiaoping Ren from Harbin Medical University is conducting experiments on head transplantation. Now the professor is operating on mice, this summer he plans to switch to monkeys and admits the possibility of such an operation for humans.

08.06.2015
Various

Fecal therapy is a game without rules

Scientists warn that fecal mass transplantation can lead to unforeseen consequences. The governments of the USA and Canada have taken the regulation of fecal transplants under control. In other countries, it would be worth following their example.

08.06.2015
Genetics

Choosing a service for cloud genomics

Research institutes and pharmaceutical companies will have to choose between two "cloud" services for storing human genome data - Google Genomics and Amazon Web Services.

08.06.2015
Various

Let me kill my children

The monstrous request of a resident of the Indian city of Agra, set out in a letter addressed to the president of the country, is due not to the author's mental illness, but to a severe hereditary disease of his children.

05.06.2015
Innovative Russia

Aptamers for cancer diagnosis

The topic of the project of researchers from Krasnoyarsk is "Development of multiplex electrochemical sensor systems based on noble metal nanoparticles and DNA aptamers for the diagnosis of lung cancer".

05.06.2015
Biomedicine

Vladimir Uiba: The future belongs to personalized medicine

You came to the clinic, went to the doctor. You are being treated according to the accepted standard. Is this the best option for medical care? With the answer to this question, a conversation began with the head of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency, Professor Vladimir Uiba.

05.06.2015
Biomedicine

VirScan – "time machine" for virologists

Harvard scientists have created a universal virus detector VirScan, which reveals the history of human infection with various viruses over his entire life, using just one drop of blood, and one such test will cost only $ 25.

05.06.2015
New in Gerontology

It's time to add aging to the list of diseases

The universality of aging does not exclude its belonging to diseases, but rather indicates that it is a special form of the disease. Even considering that aging is a natural process, it should not fall out of the scope of medicine.

04.06.2015
Various

How to save Russian healthcare from death

The problem of Russian healthcare for the author, as an economist, is that it is almost the only industry organized in a Soviet way in the Russian market economy. In this form, she is doomed to a long and painful death.

04.06.2015
Cellular technologies

The world's first rat's foot from a bioreactor

By placing a "frame" made from a damaged limb and stem cells of muscles, blood vessels and connective tissue in a special bioreactor, scientists received a full-fledged limb in a few weeks, with the exception of nerves missing in it.

04.06.2015
Prolonging youth

Aging muscles need to blow the carburetor

According to the head of the study, the correct operation of the "carburetor" – the enzyme AMP-protein kinase – is an important factor in slowing down muscle aging. AMPK can be "turned on" with the help of charging and a number of medications that are used to combat type 2 diabetes.

03.06.2015
Genetics

The project "100 thousand genomes" continues to work

The data obtained will help to study the mechanisms of the development of genetically determined diseases and create effective methods of personalized therapy for thousands of patients.

03.06.2015
Various

Coffins for the elite

The Perm municipal enterprise "Funeral Services" has placed a tender on the public procurement website for the supply of elite coffins equipped with capsules for storing the DNA of the deceased.

03.06.2015
Other life sciences

Drainage for the brain

The lymphatic system still has its own representation in the brain: the sinuses of the meninges turned out to be very similar to its vessels, they have immune cells and they are connected to the cervical lymph nodes.

03.06.2015
Cellular technologies

Homunculi instead of guinea pigs

The idea of creating an "artificial human" Homunculus is simple and this makes it even more ingenious: to place human cells on a plate the size of a credit card and combine them with a system of "vessels" in the likeness of a living organism.

03.06.2015
Other life sciences

Is Staphylococcus the cause of diabetes?

Type 2 diabetes can develop in humans not because of some internal processes, but because of chronic infection of the skin with colonies of Staphylococcus aureus.

03.06.2015
Biomedicine

The finest hour of cancer immunotherapy

For cancer immunotherapy, from monoclonal antibodies and vaccines to nonspecific therapy, now is the finest hour. Many technologies that have been developed in laboratories for a long time are finally moving into clinical practice.

02.06.2015
Genetics

The sixth culprit of achromatopsia has been found

A rare disease that turns the world into an illuminated black-and–white photograph arises due to mutations in five previously known genes, and, as it turned out, in another one - ATF6.

02.06.2015