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Too slippery for bacteria

American and British scientists have developed a group of polymer materials on the surface of which bacteria cannot gain a foothold and, accordingly, biofilms are not formed.

14.08.2012
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Cyber Eye

The installation of "cyber-eyes", created using a combination of gene therapy and electronics, returned vision to blind mice.

14.08.2012
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The current human model

DARPA has allocated a grant to develop 10 models of various organs-on-a-chip and combine them into a model of the human body with the most accurate representation of biochemical and physiological features.

14.08.2012
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Genome in mp3 format

Mathematicians from MTI have proposed a new way of storing and processing data about DNA sequences. It should help to cope with the influx of data from an increasing number of read genomes.

12.07.2012
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Disputes over ovarian stem cells

A new study refutes the existence of recently identified oogonial stem cells, or ovarian stem cells, capable of giving rise to new oocytes. Disputes over this have flared up with renewed vigor.

11.07.2012
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Stop the development of cancer?

It is possible that the identification of a protein complex that allows cancer cells to bypass the mechanism of self-destruction will allow us to develop a way to prevent the formation of malignant tumors.

06.07.2012
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Bacterial enzyme against caries

The most thorough cleaning of teeth is not able to guarantee that you will not get caries in the future. The enzyme of the bacterium Bacillus licheniformis proved to be an effective remedy against plaque.

05.07.2012
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Eight million cancer drug candidates

In search of a substance capable of inhibiting P-glycoprotein, a protein that prevents the effect of chemotherapy on cancer cells, scientists tested eight million compounds using computer modeling.

25.06.2012
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Cloud bioinformatics for "-omics"

The questions of where to store, how to store and how to provide access to the data that proteomics, genomics, microbiomics and other so-called "-omics" allow bioinformatic cloud technologies to answer.

19.06.2012
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"Human microbiome": first results

The results of the Human Microbiome project show that our biological characteristics depend on the microbial population much more than previously thought.

14.06.2012
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We construct protein complexes with atom precision

The technology of rational design of protein complexes will make it possible to create structures from polypeptides with pre-calculated properties. The researchers hope to use them to create molecular nanorobots.

04.06.2012
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What is the threat of organ transplantation

Transplantation is an extreme measure: taking into account the complications and expensive medications that the recipient is forced to take all his life, it is used in hopeless patients who face death without a transplant.

31.05.2012