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Other life sciences

The new artificial retina is 5 times better than the existing ones

Tests on rats showed her ability to achieve visual acuity equivalent to 20/250 according to the Snellen table. Such an indicator is considered a serious visual impairment, but the best of the existing bionic eyes provide a value of about 20/1200 – this is almost complete blindness.

28.04.2015

Innovative Russia

Biotech startups have started to appear in Russia

Russia today accounts for only a tenth of a percent of the global biotechnology market. However, the situation is beginning to change.

28.04.2015

Prolonging youth

I will live a century and a half

Alex Zhavoronkov, director of the British company Biogerontology Research Foundation, wants to prove that he is able to live up to at least one and a half hundred years.

27.04.2015

Other life sciences

For the first time in Russia: ultrasound cures prostate cancer

With HIFU therapy, an ultrasound sensor is inserted into the rectum, and focused ultrasound waves completely destroy the tumor. The patient can be discharged from the hospital the next day.

27.04.2015

Cellular technologies

Stem cells will help with birth defects and skull injuries

Stem cells that ensure the plasticity of the bones of the skull of newborns and differ in origin from the cells that form the bones of other parts of the body can help with rare congenital pathology and with the restoration of craniofacial injuries.

27.04.2015

Nanotechnology

Photosynthesis without plants

A hybrid artificial photosynthesis system developed by scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley combines semiconductor chemistry with biotechnology.

27.04.2015

Your health

Do not refuse vaccination

For the last 7-10 years, WHO has been considering vaccination not as a means of reducing morbidity (it has already decreased on the planet), but as a means of maintaining health. Vaccinoprophylaxis and vaccine therapy is the most innovative approach to preserving the health of the nation.

27.04.2015

Grants and competitions

GenerationS-2015: application acceptance continues

GenerationS is a federal accelerator of technology startups, during which the best projects selected based on the results of a multi–stage examination receive intensive development and broad opportunities to attract investment.

27.04.2015

Biotechnologies - into life

Is it difficult to sell something that has almost no analogues in the world?

Ivan Afanasov, the creator of a dissolving patch based on chitosan, founded his company a year ago. In November 2014, Napoly was named startup of the year. In December, dissolving patches appeared in pharmacies.

27.04.2015

Various

The smallest donor

In the UK, doctors in April 2014 transplanted the kidneys of an infant to an adult, who lived only 100 minutes after birth due to a congenital defect.

27.04.2015

Biomedicine

Failed drugs for osteoporosis will help with bronchial asthma

Safe and well-tolerated calcilitics have proven to be useless in the treatment of osteoporosis, but a new study has shown that they effectively eliminate all the symptoms associated with bronchial asthma.

24.04.2015

Your health

Rumors about the benefits of yogurt turned out to be greatly exaggerated

Spanish scientists from the University of Madrid, having examined more than 4,000 people, came to a disappointing conclusion: regular consumption of yogurt does not affect human health in any way.

24.04.2015

Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of eggs instead of "three-parent" children?

An alternative technique involves the neutralization of faulty mitochondria in eggs. Whether it will be more effective and safer is still unknown, but fanatical guardians of bioethics will surely protest against such an approach.

24.04.2015

Healthy skepticism

How the Chinese secretly made a Superman

What exactly is the terrible danger of this research, which made all progressive humanity shudder in horror? Only that the Chinese did something without asking permission from non-Chinese.

24.04.2015

Genetics

Epigenetics will help distinguish the DNA of identical twins

A new relatively cheap and fast technology allows you to distinguish "DNA fingerprints" of identical twins for forensic purposes.

24.04.2015

Innovative Russia

The Russian exoskeleton is ready for testing

The ExoaThlet company has agreed to cooperate with the N.I. Pirogov RNIMU to conduct the first clinical studies of an exoskeleton for the rehabilitation of people with impaired musculoskeletal functions of the lower extremities on the basis of the Translational Medicine Research Institute.

24.04.2015

Genetics

Why did mammoths become extinct?

In the last mammoths that lived on Wrangel Island, anomalies, mutations and deformities increased as a result of closely related interbreeding. The researchers came to these results by fully reading the genomes of two mammoths.

24.04.2015

Other life sciences

Will DNA computers replace hardware?

By 2020, the volume of data created and stored by humanity will reach 40,000 exabytes. Less than 100 g of DNA would be enough to store this information, which makes us sincerely believe in the prospect of the development of DNA computers.

24.04.2015

Cellular technologies

24 million for the development of an "organism-on-a-chip"

The aim of the new project is to develop an "organism-on-a–chip" - a system of miniature analogues of human organs designed to simulate the body's reactions to chemical and biological agents and develop therapies.

24.04.2015

Biomedicine

A new strategy for cancer immunotherapy

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new method of cancer immunotherapy. The essence of the technology is to combine the work of the two main branches of the immune system.

23.04.2015