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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
Nanotechnology

X-ray-induced PDT penetrates to any depth

Multilayer nanoparticles that convert X-rays into visible spectrum light make it possible to use photodynamic therapy (PDT) to destroy not only superficial, but also deeply located malignant tumors.

26.03.2015
Biomedicine

Personal medicine

The words "personalized medicine" and "genome analysis" have been found regularly lately. What it is, explains Sergey Moshkovsky, head of the Department of Personalized Medicine at the Moscow Institute of Biomedical Chemistry.

26.03.2015
Innovative Russia

RVC Biofund invests in breast cancer diagnostics

Investments in the company "RTM Diagnostics" – 43 million rubles – will be directed to research activities, improvement of the screening platform and development of new generations of diagnostic devices.

25.03.2015
Nanotechnology

Cytobots – cyborg bacteria

American biotechnologists turned the bacterium into a kind of cyborg, which they called a nano-electronic robo-device and a "cytobot" and taught it to work as an ultra-sensitive humidity sensor.

25.03.2015
Healthy skepticism

A sensation? Don't believe it!

Many published studies contain more enthusiasm, hopes and promises than actual breakthroughs. Meanwhile, there is a huge difference between how the media and scientists talk about science news.

25.03.2015
Grants and competitions

OMICS 2015

OMICS 2015 competition in the field of processing and analysis of "big data" in biomedicine.

25.03.2015
Innovative Russia

Rusnano came out of the loss zone

Instead of a loss a year earlier, Rusnano Group recorded a net profit of 8.2 billion rubles. Accordingly, the company's capital increased by the same amount.

24.03.2015
Genetic engineering

Blue light instead of blue pill

Specialists of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have developed a biotechnological solution to the problem of erectile dysfunction, which is a combination of a gene construct and blue light.

24.03.2015
Various

The "brain" of optical fibers

Researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have developed a technology that, according to them, is capable of growing artificial "brains" very similar to human ones.

24.03.2015