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Bioethics

Chimpanzees received additional rights

The new legal status almost completely excludes any invasive research on captive chimpanzees, which outlaws the vast majority of biomedical experiments with them.

16.06.2015
Various

Kanavero and Spiridonov do not lose optimism

Valery Spiridonov from Vladimir, suffering from incurable spinal atrophy, held his first meeting in the USA with an Italian surgeon who dreams of performing a unique head transplant operation.

16.06.2015
Various

Self-assembling micro robots

Such robots are a demonstration of the working principles on which even smaller medical robots will be created in the future, which will be able to operate directly inside the human body.

16.06.2015
Innovative Russia

What will be the markets and technologies in 10 years

The Agency for Strategic Initiatives and RVC have taken up the implementation of the National Technology Initiative – a program to form fundamentally new markets and create conditions for Russia's global technological leadership by 2035.

16.06.2015
Exhibitions and conferences

Open Innovations – 2015

The IV International Innovation Forum will be held in Moscow on 28.10 – 01.11.2015 on the site of Pavilion No. 75 of VDNH and will be dedicated to the theme "Man at the junction of trends of the technological revolution".

15.06.2015
Nanotechnology

The optomechanical chip will analyze anything

An ultra–compact, highly sensitive nanomechanical sensor allows analyzing the chemical composition of various substances, as well as detecting biological objects - for example, cancer markers or markers of viral diseases.

11.06.2015
Cellular technologies

Bioengineered trachea according to a new technique

A unique operation for prosthetics of the trachea was performed in St. Petersburg, at the N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology. The original technique of autotransplantation of the trachea was developed by Professor Evgeny Levchenko.

11.06.2015
Your health

My hands before eating!

If you don't, look at a photo of a Petri dish with a bacterial "fingerprint" of a boy's hand returning from a walk. For adults, this picture can also be useful for health :)

11.06.2015
Innovative Russia

Doctors from metallurgists

Technologies using shape memory and superelasticity alloys formed the basis for the development of a number of unique medical instruments for neurosurgery, pediatric and cardiovascular surgery and emergency care.

11.06.2015
Other life sciences

The prosthetic arm feels the temperature

If the microcontroller built into the prosthesis believes that the object is too hot, then it unclenches its fingers, preventing it from taking the object, and shocks the carrier of the bionic hand.

11.06.2015
Nanotechnology

Injection of electronics

A grid of flexible wires and electronic components that can be injected directly into the brain with a syringe can be connected to nerve cells without harm to their health.

11.06.2015
Other life sciences

Frozen ovary in childhood allowed to give birth to a child

For the first time, doctors achieved the birth of a healthy child in a patient whose reproductive function was restored by transplanting the tissue of her own ovary, removed and cryopreserved in childhood.

11.06.2015
Other life sciences

Blood Type Affects Brain Health

People with "zero" (I) blood type have more gray matter in the posterior part of the cerebellum, as well as in the temporal and limbic lobes of the cerebral hemispheres, which makes them more protected from Alzheimer's disease.

10.06.2015
Genetics

Genius and Madness

Variants of genes associated with genius and creativity largely coincide with versions of the same DNA fragments that are associated with increased exposure to schizophrenia and manic-depressive psychosis.

10.06.2015
Other life sciences

Unique transplantation

American doctors performed the world's first successful operation to transplant a part of the skull together with the skin.

10.06.2015
Grants and competitions

Corridor for innovation

The American Councils for International Education are opening the summer admission of applications to the USRIC program (US-Russia Innovation Corridor, American-Russian Innovation Corridor).

10.06.2015
Genetics

Genomics against orphan diseases

Postgenomic medicine will allow you to prevent the development of diseases that are now considered incurable in advance.

10.06.2015
Various

With a thought about the elderly

A "round table" on the topic was held in the State Duma: "Improvement of legislation regulating medical care for the elderly and their provision of medicines."

10.06.2015
Other life sciences

Sick humanity

Only 5% of the world's population is healthy, and about a third of us suffer from five or more diseases at the same time, which indicates the need for a complete reformatting of the healthcare system.

09.06.2015