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Memory disorders, Alzheimer's disease and microRNA

Researchers at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases have identified microRNAs that play an important role in the development of memory disorders and Alzheimer's disease.

29.09.2011
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Poison the tumor with oxygen!

A tiny oxygen generator injected into the tumor using a biopsy needle will increase the effectiveness of radio and chemotherapy for malignant tumors.

01.09.2011
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If you want to be a father...

Half of the men have one defective copy of the DEF126 gene, a quarter have both, and their sperm cannot reach the egg. With all the consequences. And it's better not to read about what smoking, even passive smoking, does to sperm…

21.07.2011
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Obesity is a slow suicide

In heart failure, which occurs due to obesity, special regulatory molecules of small nucleolar RNAs are "guilty", which, with an increase in the concentration of fatty acids in the cell, trigger the procedure of cellular suicide.

07.07.2011
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Computer microbes

According to researchers, it may be worth saying that we are dealing with a completely new type of "information infection".

28.06.2011
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A mermaid swimming through the intestines

The robot endoscope, nicknamed "Mermaid", has a length of 4.5 cm and a diameter of about 1 cm. In a second, it can move tens of centimeters with the help of a magnetic drive and a miniature tail.

28.06.2011
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Memory prosthetics

The head of the "memory on a chip" development team believes that in the future this technique will allow replacing an aged or damaged human hippocampus.

24.06.2011
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Man-on-a-chip

Among the "organs on chips" there are hearts that beat, and lungs that breathe, as well as the liver, fallopian tubes, etc. Now scientists are thinking about how to combine these organs into a single "organism-on-chips".

23.06.2011
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Hammer the BioBolt into the skull!

Unlike other implantable brain-computer interfaces, BioBolt is minimally invasive, eliminates the possibility of infection and provides the possibility of using the implant in everyday life.

21.06.2011
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You can live without a pulse

An artificial heart from two rotary pumps does not "beat", but creates a continuous flow of blood that does not cause pulsation of blood vessels.

17.06.2011
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The reason for gray hair is the Wnt signaling path

Graying is caused by a violation of the signaling mechanism mediated by the Wnt protein involved in the regulation of many biological processes, including the interaction between two types of hair follicle stem cells.

17.06.2011
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Biological supercomputer: don't laugh, he'll grow up

The "supercomputer" consists of 130 strands of DNA, and its largest contour, of 74 strands, is able to extract the square root of a number no larger than 15 in 10 hours. But someday…

03.06.2011