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The first manifestation of digital "life"

Scientists took the part of the general mathematical model of OpenWorm, which is a model of the worm's brain, and placed this model in a microprocessor that controls the movements of the robot.

08.12.2014
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Ambulance Drone flies to the rescue

The Ambulance Drone drone will deliver a defibrillator, a first aid kit and a communicator to the place in just a minute, with the help of which a medical specialist can direct the actions of ordinary people who are near the victim.

03.12.2014
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XVIII Russian Cancer Congress

From November 11 to 13, the XVIII Russian Cancer Congress was held in Moscow at the Congress Center of the World Trade Center.

02.12.2014
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AIDS is not sleeping!

The number of registered HIV cases in the Russian Federation may reach 1 million by the end of 2015. At the same time, mortality among HIV-positive patients is increasing, according to the report of the FNMC for the prevention and control of AIDS.

27.11.2014
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Genes, cells and biotechnologies

On November 30, Sergey Kiselyov, Chief Researcher of the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, will speak as part of the Festival of Public Lectures #KNOW. The topic of the lecture is "Genes, cells and biotechnologies".

21.11.2014
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Drop it?

International Smoking Cessation Day is celebrated every year on the third Thursday of November. In 2014, it falls on November 20.

20.11.2014
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Day of Knowledge about antibiotics

In Russia, this day is celebrated for the first time. The topic of the European Day of Knowledge about Antibiotics in 2014 was the problem of self-medication.

18.11.2014
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Features of national oncology

Within the framework of the National Oncological Program, 664 billion rubles were allocated from 2011 to 2013. Cancer mortality in Russia decreased by 1%.

17.11.2014
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Breakthrough Prize – 2014

On November 9, the ceremony of awarding the largest (in monetary terms) scientific Breakthrough Prize was held. 12 scientists received three million dollars each.

10.11.2014
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"Successful aging" should become a global priority

Unless effective strategies are developed to address the problems of an aging population, the growing burden of chronic diseases will have a very strong impact on the quality of life of older people.

10.11.2014
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How to stop pounding water in a mortar

85% of scientific research in medicine is complete nonsense, says a professor from Stanford. To remedy the situation, he proposes to introduce strict standards, improve statistics, improve the review of articles and change the system of academic career.

24.10.2014
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Microimplants powered by ultrasound

Miniature implants of a new generation, receiving energy from ultrasonic waves, can be used to monitor biological processes or targeted drug delivery.

21.10.2014
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Speculation around Ebola

Journalists tried to understand the situation with the creation of Russian vaccines against the Ebola virus. What kind of vaccines they are, how they were created and what effectiveness they showed in animal testing, developers and officials do not say.

15.10.2014
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Candidates for laureates

The list of possible candidates for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, compiled by journalists based on their own assumptions or reports from those organizations that submitted their candidate for the award, is not very long this year.

08.10.2014
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"Selfie" of melanoma

Researchers at Duke University have developed a gigapixel camera designed for early diagnosis of melanoma, the most common type of skin cancer.

07.10.2014
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Where did AIDS come from?

Researchers have established that the first HIV-infected people appeared in Leopoldville, the capital of the Belgian Congo in the 1920s. The AIDS pandemic began about 20 years before the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus in 1983.

03.10.2014