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Mobile medical applications – good or bad?

It is estimated that by next year the number of users of such applications in the world will reach 500 million. The popularity of such programs is growing rapidly, but do they benefit our health?

29.09.2014
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Get up and go!

The system of electrochemical stimulation of the spinal cord, which allows you to regain full freedom of movement of the legs, has been successfully tested on rats paralyzed due to spinal rupture; in a year, experiments will begin on volunteers.

25.09.2014
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Telomerase activity switch

The telomerase molecule has an "activity switch", the study of which can reveal to a person the secret of healthy aging.

24.09.2014
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Bioinformatics for biomedicine

Biophysicist Nikolay Borisov – about mathematical models in oncology and gerontology, personalized medicine and OncoFinder and Geroscope projects.

24.09.2014
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$1,000,000 for eye transplantation

The main goal of the project is to develop effective methods to ensure the successful germination of the nerve endings of the donor eye into the recipient's optic nerve.

23.09.2014
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Alzheimer's Disease and the Wnt signaling pathway

A defect in one of the most important signaling pathways in the cell leads both to hyperproduction of beta-amyloid in the brain of people who have Alzheimer's disease, and to disruption of interaction between neurons.

23.09.2014
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The first symposium on gnotobiology in Russia

The forum taking place in St. Petersburg gives an opportunity to publish new information about the contribution of microbiota to the vital activity of our body.

23.09.2014
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First aid kit of neural stem cells

According to a study published in the journal Molecular Cell, neural stem cells capable of developing into any type of nerve cells create "mini-first aid kits" and transfer them to target cells.

22.09.2014
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Prediabetes and cancer: a dangerous correlation

The condition preceding the development of type II diabetes mellitus (prediabetes) increases the risk of developing oncopathology by an average of 15%, depending on the type of cancer.

10.09.2014
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Cancer treatment methods

Where can I find a reason to hope that cancer will ever be cured? Rapid progress cannot be expected, but recent studies inspire some optimism.

04.09.2014
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About the benefits of useless knowledge

Konstantin Severinov, Professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and Rutgers University, USA, spoke about the role of chance in modern biomedical research.

02.09.2014
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Finalists of the competition for the creation of a "Tricorder"

Ten teams of engineers were selected by the jury of the Tricorder XPrize competition in order to translate the idea of the Tricorder device from the Star Trek series into reality and make it accessible to a wide range of consumers.

01.09.2014
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And the heart beats like a clock

Swiss scientists have developed a prototype of a heart rate driver working without batteries, which is based on a classic self-winding clockwork.

01.09.2014
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Nanobacteria

The sizes of the vast majority of bacteria well studied by microbiologists are in the range from one to tens and hundreds of microns; the diameter of nanobacteria is no more than 300 nanometers. It is the size of these organisms that has held back the study of nanobacteria for a long time.

28.08.2014