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Biotechnologies - into life

Artificial organs: Russian gasoline, Italian ideas

On the basis of the Kuban Medical University, Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini is deploying a laboratory of regenerative medicine. It is assumed that in two years in Krasnodar they will learn how to grow human organs.

23.01.2012
Biomedicine

Spinal cord injury: how to keep intact nerves

Perhaps in the near future in the arsenal of veterinarians, and subsequently doctors, there will be a means to minimize the consequences of spinal cord injury.

23.01.2012
Cellular technologies

Cord blood stem cells will cure sore knees

"Kartistem" – a drug from cord blood stem cells – promotes the regeneration of cartilage tissue and is used for various diseases of the knee joints, in particular, deforming osteoarthritis.

23.01.2012
Biomedicine

Sperm vaccine

There are cases when women develop allergic reactions to their partner's sperm. Perhaps this unpleasant phenomenon will help in the creation of a new means of contraception.

20.01.2012
Genetic engineering

Vodka is not made of sawdust

A bacterium capable of efficiently processing brown algae into biofuel – ethanol has been created. Some scientists have already called this work an engineering feat.

20.01.2012
Cellular technologies

Oligodendrocytes from umbilical cord blood

Bioengineers from the University of Central Florida have managed to turn stem cells from the umbilical cord into oligodendrocytes engaged in axon myelination, that is, isolating nerves in the brain and spinal cord.

20.01.2012
Grants and competitions

Leibniz-DAAD Research Fellowships

The joint grant program of the Association of Leibniz Institutes and DAAD offers candidates of sciences who have recently defended their dissertation the opportunity to participate in research in Germany.

19.01.2012
Various

The epidemic of fake medicines

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 25% of medicines consumed in emerging economies are counterfeit, and Russia is at the epicenter of this epidemic of falsification of medicines.

19.01.2012
Innovative Russia

Tales of innovation

If one of the Russian minds finds a cure for cancer or comes up with a teleportation machine, it will remain on paper if foreigners do not get to it, and we will not succeed. However, this is said by a person who has difficulty, but it turns out...

19.01.2012
Genetics

In his right mind and sober memory

The rate of decline in the intellectual abilities of people in old age by 24% is due to many small differences in the genome.

19.01.2012
Various

Buy "smart pills"!

Soon, British pharmacies will start selling "smart" pills that will monitor not only whether the patient took them on time, but also monitor several indicators of his health and even behavior.

19.01.2012
Note to the businessman

The collapse of patents: fly – it will become cheaper!

Last year, the process began, which has already been dubbed the "patent collapse". Innovative blockbuster medicines of the world's leading companies, created in the 90s of the twentieth century, began to lose patent protection one after another.

18.01.2012
Grants and competitions

German-Russian Partnership in Science, Education and Innovation

A new version of the agreement on strategic partnership between Russia and Germany in the field of education, research and innovation has been published on the website of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Moscow.

18.01.2012
Grants and competitions

Competition of scientific papers of young oncologists

The Federal State Budgetary Institution "N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology" of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia announces a competition of scientific papers of young scientists.

18.01.2012
Healthy skepticism

Healers under the wing of the authorities

It seems that pseudoscientific medicine, which flourishes not only in private but also in public hospitals, finds reliable patronage in the authorities and develops at a much faster pace than traditional healthcare.

17.01.2012
Your health

Peyronie's disease: take care of the most important thing!

Peyronie's disease is a disease in which cartilaginous plaques form in the protein membrane and cavernous bodies of the penis, leading to its curvature, severe pain during erection and erectile dysfunction.

16.01.2012