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Human Brain Project: the process has started!

At the first stage of the Human Brain Project, which will end in 2016, all technical means and software in all the main areas of the project should be created and ready for the testing stage.

09.10.2013
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Obesity is "good" and "bad"

Overweight, which is fraught with diabetes and heart problems, is accompanied by the accumulation of fat in the liver and sluggish inflammation, which is triggered by abdominal fat cells. But what in this case is the cause and what is the consequence, scientists have yet to find out.

08.10.2013
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Nobel Bubbles

The secretary of the Nobel Committee, who by tradition has to announce the laureates in all languages that Nobel spoke, speaking in Russian, mentioned "bubble transport". In fact, in Russian scientific terminology, the concept of "vesicular transport" has long existed.

08.10.2013
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Fat- burning fats

Scientists from Texas Tech University have shown that one of the polyunsaturated fatty acids – linoleic acid – stimulates metabolism and helps reduce fat accumulation.

04.10.2013
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Mouse tears

The tears of mice contain the peptide ESP22, which plays the role of an anti-pheromone and signals to adult males that the animal is not yet ready for reproductive activity.

03.10.2013
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On the way to the chemical computer

Biologists and chemists with the help of a set of special structured instructions will soon be able to program the processes taking place in test tubes or living cells, in which synthetic DNA molecules take part.

02.10.2013
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Disarm the tumor

Polish scientists have found out how to "trick" brain tumor cells and turn a malignant glioma into a benign tumor, the growth of which can already be suppressed by the body's immune system.

01.10.2013
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How to Defeat Antibiotic resistance

A new method of combating the formation of antibiotic resistance in bacteria is based on the study of how the resistance of microorganisms to one substance affects the sensitivity to others.

30.09.2013
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Be careful on the track!

The Australian company Emotiv has developed a traffic safety system that, with the help of a neural headset and head position sensors, automatically slows down the car when signs of driver inattention are detected.

27.09.2013
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Bionic cross-country leg

It is possible to achieve greater accuracy in the control of the prosthesis if you reconnect the nerves from the missing muscles to those that remain.

27.09.2013
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Siberia and America – together against cancer

International and interdisciplinary cooperation involving information technologies gives hope that humanity will receive not only reliable means of treatment and diagnosis, but also unravel the nature of cancer.

26.09.2013
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Lose weight with an antioxidant

The antioxidant tempol prevents the development of obesity in mice by changing the composition of bacteria in their intestines.

25.09.2013
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Brain Cancer Switch

Scientists from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have identified a "switch" molecule, acting on which it is possible to slow down and eventually suppress the growth of the most commonly diagnosed malignant brain tumor.

25.09.2013
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Success of vitrification

Advanced vitrification technology (turning into "glass") will allow frozen donor organs to be stored for years or even decades.

20.09.2013
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Antibiotic with a switch

Dutch chemists have created an antibiotic that is activated by ultraviolet radiation, and then returns to an inactive state within a few hours.

17.09.2013
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Neurons with a mutation in the tau protein gene "in vitro"

Using advances in stem cell production and reprogramming and genetic engineering, American scientists have grown human neurons with a mutation in the tau protein, creating a model of one of the types of neurodegenerative diseases – taupathies.

17.09.2013
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Shepherd microbes vs. Wolf microbes

Microbes that are safe for humans can be taught to accurately recognize pathogenic types of microorganisms and provide weapons against them.

13.09.2013
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Forget that you were a drug addict…

American neuroscientists have received proof that "narcotic" memory is formed separately from all other memories and it can be erased without provoking total retrograde amnesia in the patient.

12.09.2013