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Biomedicine

Inactivation of the gene will help with wound healing

Vanderbilt University researchers have developed a biodegradable scaffold for stable delivery of miRNAs that inactivate the expression of the PHD2 gene that suppresses the formation of new blood vessels.

22.01.2014
Other life sciences

Cyborg-sperm

A group of researchers from the University of Illinois has developed a new type of tiny biohybrid machines that can move like spermatozoa.

22.01.2014
Nanotechnology

Polymer cell imitates a living one

Dutch researchers have produced an artificial eukaryotic cell containing artificial organelles and biochemical reactions similar to those occurring in the cells of living organisms.

22.01.2014
Other life sciences

A self-sustaining pacemaker

American researchers have applied the piezoelectric effect to obtain energy from heart contractions. It seems that the issue of feeding pacemakers is close to its final solution.

22.01.2014
Exhibitions and conferences

Seminar on Systems Biology (St. Petersburg, May 15-18, 2014)

The seminar will explore the main approaches to obtaining biological data, including epigenetic profiling, ChIP-seq, RNA sequencing, gene expression analysis, exomic sequencing and metabolic profiling.

21.01.2014
Other life sciences

New hope for diabetics

Suppression of the activity of one of the proteins causes the normally non-replicating beta cells, obtained even from old donors, to divide.

21.01.2014
Genetics

Let's protect coffee plantations from transgenic beetles!

Because of transgenic beetles, coffee becomes more expensive, while they themselves do not starve, eating coffee for about half a billion dollars a year for free. Sometimes leading to ruin, and maybe to suicide of local farmers.

21.01.2014
Other life sciences

Dr. Google

How far is Google going to go in medicine? What are his craziest projects? Is it possible to implement them in practice?

21.01.2014
Biomedicine

A new generation antibiotic sets records

Modification of natural acyldepsipeptides that destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria using a mechanism different from the action of all known antibacterial drugs has increased their effectiveness tens and hundreds of times.

21.01.2014
Various

Megagrants-2014

The winners of the fourth competition for grants from the Government of the Russian Federation for state support of scientific research conducted under the leadership of leading scientists have been announced.

21.01.2014
Various

Do we want to die?

Levada Center compared the change in the attitude of Russians to the problems of life and death for the period from 2007 to 2013.

21.01.2014
Other life sciences

A world without antibiotics is a real threat

Humanity is threatened by the risk of a future without antibiotics – a world in which life expectancy will rapidly decline due to mortality from diseases that are currently easily curable.

20.01.2014
Your health

HIV and AIDS: facts and myths

For example, among the surveyed students of Turkish universities, 16% believe that HIV infection and AIDS are a punishment for sins, 8% - that proper nutrition and sports will protect them from the virus, and 9% – that strong and passionate love is stronger than the disease.

20.01.2014
Other life sciences

Stem cells give their mitochondria to sick neighbors

The mitochondrial transfer carried out by mesenchymal stem cells with the help of the Miro1 protein promotes the restoration of the pulmonary epithelium in a mouse model of allergic inflammation of the respiratory tract.

20.01.2014
Cellular technologies

Leave stem cells embryonic

Scientists from the University of California at San Diego have identified a receptor for one of the key genes and a signaling pathway important for maintaining the undifferentiated state of human embryonic stem cells.

20.01.2014
Other life sciences

Cancer and alternative telomere lengthening: new data

So far , the explanation of the phenomenon of alternative telomere elongation has been reduced to the thesis: cancer cells can repair long, albeit "sloppy" looking, telomeres without telomerase. But exactly how this is done remained unclear.

20.01.2014
Healthy skepticism

Develop like steel!

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has approved the forecast of scientific and technological development of Russia until 2030.

20.01.2014