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Genetics

Genomes of Icelanders

Analysis of the genomes of 2,636 Icelanders – the largest collection of genetic information about a single human population – allowed scientists to evaluate certain sections of the genomes of another 100,000 people, that is, almost a third of the entire population of the country.

01.04.2015
Other life sciences

Age by photo

Bioinformatics specialists from China have developed a program that calculates the calendar and biological age of a person by special reference points on a three-dimensional photograph of his face.

01.04.2015
Note to the businessman

Why are medicines getting more expensive?

Over the past 10 years, the cost of clinical trials of one drug has increased by 2 times. If in the early 2000s it did not exceed an average of $1.2 billion, then in 2014 it reached $2.6 billion. According to experts, the cost of clinical trials can account for up to 50% of all investments in the development of a new drug.

01.04.2015
Other life sciences

Iron muscles and nerves of steel

Not quite steel: when developing an artificial arm, scientists from Saarland University used wires made of nitinol, an alloy of nickel and titanium, as muscles. The same wires can play the role of sensors.

31.03.2015
Other life sciences

A long-forgotten recipe against super-microbes

The mixture, created according to the Old English clinic of the IX century, destroyed up to 90% of one of the antibiotic-resistant strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The same effect was given only by vancomycin.

31.03.2015
Nanotechnology

Breakthrough in cell reprogramming

A unique nano-patch covered with microscopic silicon needles allows the introduction of "genetic instructions" into cells.

31.03.2015
Your health

The 35 million question

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is very little developed, and there are no preventive measures in clinical practice. There are also no medications that could get rid of this disease. About 35 million people around the world are suffering from it now.

30.03.2015
Biomedicine

Blood cancer, kill yourself!

If you amplify the cellular signal that prompts immune cells to divide uncontrollably, this will cause them to destroy themselves.

30.03.2015
Cellular technologies

Thyroid for the mouse

Russian scientists from the laboratory of biotechnological research "3D Bioprinting Solutions" for the first time in the world managed to print a real organ on a bioprinter – the thyroid gland of a mouse.

30.03.2015
Biomedicine

Cement the fracture

Scientists of the Seversk Institute of Technology (STI) in the Tomsk region have developed a technology for obtaining a material capable of replacing a part of a human bone damaged as a result of injuries and fractures.

30.03.2015
Cellular technologies

Lungs in a test tube

Microscopic spheroids grown from stem cells are similar to lungs at a certain stage of embryonic development.

30.03.2015
Other life sciences

Using artificial Hibernation to save lives

Mark Roth has found several compounds that can help in achieving the goal. In addition to toxic hydrogen sulfide and bromide, iodides have similar properties, which are much safer. Now the scientist is preparing to move on to clinical trials of artificial hibernation in humans.

27.03.2015
Innovative Russia

Portable Artificial Heart

Equipping ambulances and emergency crews with such devices will expand the arsenal of resuscitators. If life could not be saved, the introduction of the device into a wide medical practice will double the possibilities of medicine for organ transplantation.

27.03.2015
Various

Money doesn't smell

Sewage sewage contains rare and expensive elements, including palladium, gold, silver and other metals. The income from the extraction of these metals will bring $13 million per year for every million residents of the city.

27.03.2015
Healthy skepticism

Alzheimer's Pill: a skeptic's opinion

According to the geriatrician, Professor Yuri Konev, before celebrating the victory over Alzheimer's disease, you need to wait for the final stage of clinical trials.

27.03.2015
Other life sciences

Automatic laboratories

Laboratories in which all experiments are performed by robots will help biology to get out of the crisis of reproducibility of results. Moreover, by ordering experiments in automated laboratories, everyone will be able to do research in the field of natural sciences.

27.03.2015
Nanotechnology

Self-assembling nanorobots-transformers

"Nanotransformers" made of DNA blocks similar to Lego parts can be assembled independently into complex, mobile and multifunctional structures, and then disassembled into parts.

27.03.2015