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Brain obesity

Abnormal fatty deposits in the brain may cause the development of Alzheimer's disease or accelerate its course.

01.09.2015
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The best bionic prosthesis

A prototype of a 3D-printed mechanical prosthetic arm brought its creators, the British robotics company Open Bionics, a victory in the James Dyson National Award.

31.08.2015
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HIV and AIDS: new data

The killers of T-lymphocytes are infected cells, not a free-floating virus. The transmission of HIV from cell to cell triggers the development of AIDS.

31.08.2015
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Tumor modeling

The new mathematical model takes into account both mutational modifications of tumor cells and its three-dimensional structure, including cell mobility.

31.08.2015
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Ribo-T is a synthetic ribosome with a single RNA chain

Hybrid ribosomes, which include a single molecule instead of two long rRNA chains, can support the synthesis of all the proteins necessary for a bacterial cell, although slower than conventional ribosomes.

18.08.2015
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Xenotransplantologists ' record

An international group of researchers from China and America has set a record in the field of xenotransplantology: a pig kidney transplanted to a baboon worked for 136 days.

12.08.2015
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Burns and injuries without scars and scars

Bioengineers led by specialists from the Johns Hopkins University Medical School (USA) have discovered a receptor that not only helps heal wounds, but also gives the skin an aesthetic appearance after healing.

10.08.2015
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Free radicals and broken knees

The increased content of free radicals in the epidermis accelerates the healing of injuries in young animals, but with age this effect changes to the opposite: skin cells stop dividing, the stock of stem cells decreases, and the skin begins to age rapidly.

04.08.2015
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Synthetic ribosome

Biologists have created the first artificial analogue of the ribosome in the history of mankind – the key part of the cell responsible for assembling protein molecules, and taught it to respond to signals that do not exist in nature.

30.07.2015
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Cloud computing for biomedicine

Processing, storing and transmitting volumes of information, or "big data", is a very difficult task. The Moscow EMC Center has developed a platform that allows you to solve this problem.

29.07.2015
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Artificial Intelligence made in China

The head of the Beijing Genomics Institute, Jun Wang, surprised the scientific community by resigning his powers in early July 2015. Now he has announced his desire to focus on research in the field of artificial intelligence.

29.07.2015
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Hearts are trumps

Earthworms is a universal factory for the production of eco–friendly and effective fertilizers, high-quality food protein, as well as biologically active components for pharmaceutical and cosmetic preparations.

28.07.2015
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Is computed tomography harmful to health?

Stanford University researchers reported that computed tomography causes DNA damage. According to the authors' calculations, the radiation dose during CT is 120 times higher than during chest X-ray examination.

28.07.2015
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Attachment to the tablet for assessing the quality of sperm

Within 7 seconds, a special application for iPad mini takes a video on which the camera captures the movements of sperm, and then within 10 seconds automatically calculates such parameters affecting fertility as their number and mobility.

24.07.2015
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Breast cancer diagnosis – more accurate and cheaper

To determine the subtype of breast cancer, the method of immunohistochemical analysis is mainly used. Novosibirsk scientists have selected a panel of breast cancer-specific micro-RNAs, which, according to their observations, most clearly demonstrate the tumor process during diagnosis.

23.07.2015
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"Chimera" will help neurosurgeons

A device called Chimaera with the help of augmented reality can guide the hand of a neurosurgeon, showing which nerves and vessels he works with.

22.07.2015
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Titanium skull saved a child from hydrocephalus

Using three-dimensional scanning and printing technologies, doctors managed to simulate three titanium mesh implants and replace the bones of the skull vault with them.

21.07.2015
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Winners of the OMICS2015 competition

Of the twenty finalists, five projects were recognized as winners, which will receive mini-grants in the amount of 5 million rubles from the Skolkovo Foundation.

20.07.2015
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Brainet – three brains working together

Neurophysiologists from Duke University have combined the brains of three monkeys into a "brainet" – a distributed system that allows them to synchronize efforts to achieve results without using direct communication.

14.07.2015