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Virtual Spinal Cord

Neurobridge provides a connection between the brain and muscles bypassing the damaged area of the spinal cord, allowing you to move the fingers of a paralyzed hand. Until now, such an effect has been achieved only with the control of bionic limbs.

25.06.2014
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Do you want to lose weight? Try Gelesis!

Gelesis 100 capsules containing hydrogel are able to safely reduce weight in overweight and obese people. The greatest weight loss was observed in people with prediabetic condition.

25.06.2014
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Diagnosis by photo

A computer program developed at Oxford allows you to diagnose rare genetic diseases from photographs, based on the analysis of facial features and comparing them with characteristics from a database.

25.06.2014
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How Stress Causes Clogged Arteries

Prolonged stress triggers a cascade of reactions in the body that lead to excessive production of leukocytes, which accumulate in the arteries and lead to the formation of complicated atherosclerotic plaques prone to rupture and thrombus formation.

24.06.2014
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Limb regeneration

Constant activity of the molecular pathway ERK (extracellular signal-regulated kinase) is necessary for reprogramming of salamander cells and their "tuning" to regenerate various parts of the body.

24.06.2014
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Starvation hibernation stops the biological clock

Deprivation of food stops the development of nematodes, which resumes with the intake of nutrients. As a result, their life expectancy may double. It is possible that such mechanisms can use metastatic cancer cells.

24.06.2014
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How to get rid of old mitochondria

Some neurons transfer the function of recycling old or damaged mitochondria to glial cells known as astrocytes.

24.06.2014
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Gentlemen Hussars…

A suit with motion sensors sewn into the fabric will help relieve professional riders from lower back pain. The innovative suit will find application in any sections of sports medicine, as well as in orthopedics and rehabilitation.

17.06.2014
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Bionic pancreas has passed field tests

The latest version of the bionic pancreas has successfully passed two five–day clinical trials, one of which involved adult patients, and the other - adolescents with type 1 diabetes.

16.06.2014
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Physics transforms medicine

Modern medical technologies are unthinkable without the use of the latest achievements of fundamental science. This was discussed during the VI Trinity Conference "Medical Physics and innovations in Medicine".

16.06.2014
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Neurons tell stem cells that new neurons are needed

Scientists from Duke University have discovered a new type of neurons in the brain of an adult organism. These neurons are able to transmit information to neural stem cells about the need to start actively differentiating into neurons.

09.06.2014
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From the life of hair follicles: eggs teach a chicken

The signal to activate the resting stem cells of hair follicles is given by descendant cells – an intermediate link between stem cells and their final product, fully differentiated cells.

04.06.2014
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A model of synapse operation with the accuracy of a molecule

Scientists have created a detailed three-dimensional model of a single synapse, having a molecular level of detail and numbering 300 thousand protein molecules involved in the functioning of the synapse itself.

04.06.2014
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NCoR1 – coordinator of cholesterol metabolism

Corepressor 1 of liver cell nuclei (NCoR1) is able to actively regulate the concentration of cholesterol in the blood; the development of drugs that affect NCoR1 is a new promising direction in the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis.

03.06.2014
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Two groups of scientists have mapped proteins in the human body

Since any protein does not exist by itself, but is part of complex and intricate chains of interactions that determine the fate of the cell, tissue or organ in which they occur, it was very difficult to understand without a diagram or map.

29.05.2014
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Implants against post-traumatic stress

DARPA has announced the launch of a project aimed at developing a brain implant for the treatment of a number of mental disorders, including post-traumatic stress.

28.05.2014
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Miniature Wireless Heart Rate Driver

Experiments on rabbits have demonstrated the effectiveness and safety of tiny heart rate drivers powered by external batteries.

26.05.2014
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New frontiers of photodynamic therapy

The improved PDT method allows it to be used for the treatment of not only superficial tumors, but also those located in the thickness of tissues.

22.05.2014