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The break is over

AstraZeneca has resumed testing a coronavirus vaccine, previously suspended due to the illness of one of the volunteers.

14.09.2020
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For three parents

A group of Australian politicians has proposed legalizing the possibility of artificial insemination with mitochondrial donation.

12.07.2018
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Nicotine addiction genes

The "smoking genes" that correlate most strongly with increased cravings for nicotine, the researchers considered certain gene variants of two membrane proteins of nerve cells – alpha-3 and alpha-5 subunits of the nicotine receptor. Now pharmacologists know the targets for new generation anti-nicotine drugs.

31.01.2008
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Death Quality Rating

The first three places were taken by the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. They are followed by Ireland, Belgium, Taiwan and Germany. The USA and France complete the top ten. Iraq took the last place.

07.10.2015
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RUSNANOPRIZE 2013: Nanomedicine won

The winners of the RUSNANOPRIZE Prize in 2013 were the honorary Professor of MTI Robert Langer and Professor of Harvard Medical School Omid Farokzad for the development of technology for the use of nanoparticles in medicine.

24.10.2013
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Gene therapy for the treatment of brain cancer

Numerous studies show that about 97% of people who have achieved weight loss with the help of strict diets subsequently return it and even with an increase. But losing weight without exhausting diets is possible and not even that difficult...

27.02.2008
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A human differs from a monkey by transcription factors

Scientists have identified differences in the human and chimpanzee brains in 90 genes of transcription factors – proteins that regulate the activity of thousands of genes involved in the synthesis of other proteins. The regulated genes themselves are identical in humans and monkeys.

08.12.2009
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Sperm from stem cells

British researchers have created a strategy for obtaining in vitro male spermatogenic progenitor cells (germline stem cells - GSCs) from human embryonic stem cells.

08.07.2009
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Against ageism

The Royal Society for Public Health has called for the word "anti-aging" not to be used in the cosmetics industry.

09.06.2018
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The pancreas of a mouse was grown in the body of a rat

For the first time in the world, Japanese scientists managed to reproduce the structural part of a living organism at the interspecific level – to grow an organ of one creature in the body of another.

26.01.2017
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Who would you like to clone?

On the day of a kind of anniversary – the 20th anniversary of the birth of Dolly the sheep - the RT TV channel website conducted a survey to find out who they would like to clone if there was such an opportunity.

05.07.2016
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Biotechnologists of Siberia united

An agreement on cooperation between the regions of the Siberian Federal District within the framework of the interregional program "Siberian Biotechnological Initiative" was signed in Novosibirsk today.

09.06.2016
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Learn "-omics"!

The educational program "Omix data: Acquisition and use in Medical Applications", developed by order of the Rusnano Foundation for Infrastructure and Educational Programs in cooperation with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, has started today.

20.07.2015