Tests of the artificial heart were successful, the patient died
The first patient, whose own heart was replaced by the most advanced artificial heart of all existing in the world, died 75 days after surgery.
04.03.2014The first patient, whose own heart was replaced by the most advanced artificial heart of all existing in the world, died 75 days after surgery.
04.03.2014The Skolkovo Foundation announces the launch of a new innovative competition of biomedical projects – InBioMed 2014.
04.03.2014In the new film, two eccentric researchers are trying to achieve eternal youth. As they struggle with their own aging and suffer the loss of loved ones, their scientific search turns into a personal mission.
03.03.2014Scientists from Columbia University have developed a technology for monitoring the movement of low-molecular substances in cells, whose size does not allow the use of conventional fluorescent labels.
03.03.2014Researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles have created a catalyst coating to prevent the occurrence of blood clots near implants or inserted catheters.
03.03.2014On February 2, Science Slam was held in Moscow on the stage of the Moscow Hall club, a popular science event of a new format that is still gaining popularity in Russia.
03.03.2014Biologists led by renowned geneticist George Church have created a method of in situ RNA sequencing ("on the spot"), which allows you to map the expression of thousands of genes on a scale from the subcellular level to the whole brain or embryo.
03.03.2014Postmortem analysis of brain tissue of twins with equally developing Alzheimer's disease revealed similar lesions of the same regions.
28.02.2014Last year, work on the project was completed, which resulted in a unique development for Russia – prosthetics of small joints (fingers and toes) made of nanoceramics.
28.02.2014As international phase II clinical studies have shown, one injection of stem cells into degenerating intervertebral discs reduces back pain for at least 12 months.
28.02.2014Shukhrat Mitalipov – about the yellow press, which again made noise about genetically modified children and about what his laboratory actually does.
28.02.2014A large-scale study confirmed the relationship between the age of the father and a whole set of mental disorders in the child, the probability of which is higher the older the father was at the time of conception.
28.02.2014Over the past 10 years, more than 1.5 thousand studies on the safety of GMOs have been published, and no conclusions have been made about their toxicity or any negative properties. Russian senators don't want to know.
28.02.2014Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered the intersection between the signaling cascades of the aging process and the body's response to cellular stress, which, among other things, causes senile sleep disorders. Perhaps the effect on the corresponding molecular mechanisms will help the elderly suffering from insomnia.
27.02.2014Estonian and Finnish doctors have learned to find out from a blood test whether a person will die in the next five years or not. But experts cannot yet say from which disease he will die, and it is not very clear what to do with such information.
27.02.2014A "cocktail" of four small molecules with the addition of a single genetic factor made it possible to turn skin cells into contracting heart cells.
27.02.2014For the spinal cord, the same trick that has been done for a long time for the brain has been repeated: spinal neurons were obtained from auxiliary cells of nervous tissue – astrocytes.
27.02.2014Preventive removal of the ovaries (preventive ovariectomy) reduces the risk of malignant neoplasms by 80% and the risk of premature death by 77% in carriers of oncogenic mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.
27.02.2014Russian scientists have created a special tourniquet for the military, capable of using ultrasound to stop internal bleeding in the field without the risk of complications. There are no analogues of such protection in the world yet.
26.02.2014Low molecular weight inhibitors disrupt the order of amino acids necessary for the coupling of bacterial protease ClpP subunits, or convert the amino acid responsible for its work into another. Both variants lead to a loss of protease activity.
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