Nanotubes sniff out cocaine
Spanish researchers have linked specific antibodies to the main metabolite of cocaine, benzoylecgonine, to the surface of silver nanoparticles deposited on a matrix of carbon nanotubes.
02.09.2009Spanish researchers have linked specific antibodies to the main metabolite of cocaine, benzoylecgonine, to the surface of silver nanoparticles deposited on a matrix of carbon nanotubes.
02.09.2009The huge amount of information collected by the Biobank will allow us to establish the genetic causes of the most common chronic diseases – cancer, diabetes, coronary heart disease, etc. – as well as risk factors for their development.
24.07.2009To create it, scientists used blood vessels of pigs' intestines, on which they then grew cultures of liver cells – hepatocytes.
29.06.2009The method of cell reprogramming, which the authors called "transcriptome induced phenotype remodeling" (transcriptome induced phenotype remodeling) is that the original cell is not turned into a pluripotent one, capable of developing in several directions. Instead of "embryonic genes", a large amount of matrix RNA is injected into the cell, on which proteins characteristic of the desired type of cells are synthesized.
20.04.2009Physicists from Brown University took as a basis the well-known DNA sequencing technique, which involves reading information when passing DNA molecules through miniature holes in the material, and eliminated its main drawback, which was that the rate of passage of base pairs through the hole was too high (as a result, the decoding accuracy decreased).
17.04.2009Diabetic patients managed to get rid of insulin dependence by "unlearning" the immune system to attack beta cells of the pancreas.
16.04.2009Chinese researchers have developed a way to treat keratitis caused by the herpes virus, based on the destruction of the virus genome.
14.01.2021When using sowing and growing mycobacterium cultures, it takes several weeks to isolate the causative agent of tuberculosis. The use of bacteriophages carrying the fluorescent protein gene reduces this time to several days.
23.03.2009The pharmaceutical company will distribute for free the world's most expensive drug for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy in the amount of $ 210 million.
20.12.2019In Japan, at the age of 21 years and three months, the world's first cow that appeared as a result of cloning died.
10.10.2019Age-related decrease in insulin sensitivity increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease. The knowledge that Alzheimer's disease is a kind of diabetes of the brain may someday lead to the development of fundamentally new methods of treating this most serious disease.
04.02.2009The elderly, in whose body there was an increased content of vitamin D, are half as susceptible to impaired thinking processes. And when it is not enough, the probability of deterioration of attention and memory is also twice as high.
29.01.2009In Taiwan, the police conducted a DNA analysis of six female students to find out who drank yogurt of one of them without asking.
05.12.2018Recently, the first 330 kilograms (7 thousand samples) of seeds from 36 African countries from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), based in Nigeria, were shipped to Norway. At the same time, national seed banks, including Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines and Syria, began sending their collections.
04.02.2008The vaccine, which protects against nine of the most dangerous strains from the point of view of cancer development, is approved for use in people under 45 years of age.
08.10.2018Biologists from University College London argue that the role of free radicals in the aging process is greatly exaggerated, and the benefits of antioxidant-containing food additives and cosmetics are highly questionable.
02.12.2008Now, according to the American Center for Gerontology, Maria de Jesus from Portugal has become the oldest person. She was born in 1893, and is only a few months younger than Edna Parker.
28.11.2008Scientific events of the All–Russian conference with international participation "Biotechnology - medicine of the future" are held on the sites of the Academic Park and NSU for three days.
24.07.2017The FDA has assigned orphan status to a drug for the treatment of myeloid leukemia, developed by a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation, Fusion Pharma.
20.07.2017The first thousand doses of the Ebola vaccine developed at the Gamalei Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology were sent to the Republic of Guinea on July 12.
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