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Telepathic rats

According to scientists, they managed to achieve the accuracy of the coincidence of the actions of two animals in 64 percent, which is not too much, but statistically significantly differs from randomness.

04.03.2013
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Laboratory in your pocket

The uChek smartphone app determines 8-10 parameters of urine – the level of sugar, protein, ketone bodies, bilirubin, leukocytes and others – and interprets the results, allowing you to identify the symptoms of 25 diseases.

01.03.2013
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There are no "regeneration genes" in humans:(

Only newts (and possibly other amphibians) have hundreds of genes supposedly involved in the regeneration of damaged tissues. They are not found in the genomes of other vertebrates.

27.02.2013
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Stroke: a new strategy for protecting neurons

The human and mouse brains are protected from the effects of stroke by the hamartin protein, which causes neurons to "eat" part of themselves, receiving energy and oxygen, which allows them to live for several tens of minutes without access to blood.

25.02.2013
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Alzheimer's in vitro

Japanese researchers have studied the features of cortical neurons and astrocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells of patients with hereditary and sporadic Alzheimer's disease.

25.02.2013
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Rapamycin target: study continues

Scientists at the University of Basel have identified more than 300 new proteins that are targets of mTOR. In particular, the researchers found out exactly how the mTORC1 protein complex controls cell growth and division.

25.02.2013
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Electronic retinas are being improved

The Alpha IMS wireless bionic retina works without an external camera, providing free eye movement, and sends signals from 1500 pixels to the nearby neural layers of the retina and to the optic nerve, completely simulating the work of photoreceptor cells.

22.02.2013
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Geography of the brain: details

In the USA, the Brain Activity Map project will be launched – a project to create a complete map of brain activity that will reveal the biological mechanisms of consciousness and the secrets of mental illness.

21.02.2013
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See infrared light

Researchers from Duke University have developed a neuroimplant with which rats were able to perceive the infrared part of the spectrum.

18.02.2013
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Oligopeptides will help gene therapy

Scientists from Moscow State University together with foreign colleagues have created a substance that will be widely used in gene therapy: the EF-C peptide accelerates the transfer of a "therapeutic" gene from a genetically modified retroviral vector to human DNA.

18.02.2013
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The first electronic retina enters the US market

The FDA has approved the first artificial retina – an implantable device with some retinal functions that will help people who have lost their eyesight due to a genetic disease – retinitis pigmentosa.

18.02.2013
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New system for early cancer diagnosis

Researchers from South Korea have developed a simple and non-invasive method for detecting cancer cells that can speed up the early diagnosis of malignant tumors.

15.02.2013
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Will non-coding RNAs help fight obesity?

American scientists have discovered ten non-coding RNAs, a decrease in the expression of which in adipocyte progenitor cells stops the process of adipose tissue formation.

14.02.2013
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Bacterial Computer

MIT engineers have designed molecular genetic circuits that allow not only to perform logical operations inside bacteria, but also to record the results in cellular DNA, which are transmitted to the next generations of microorganisms.

12.02.2013
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It's not contagious

Some of the patients infected with mad cow disease in the 1980s due to the presence of prions in growth hormone also received pathological forms of proteins involved in the development of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. But none of them developed these diseases.

08.02.2013
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How chromosomes are protected from dangerous fusion

The TRF2 protein, which is part of the telomeres, prevents the fusion of chromosomes with each other using two independent mechanisms that suppress the activity of the intracellular DNA damage repair system.

07.02.2013