A surgeon from the Guinness Book of Records
On June 22, 2008, surgeon Fyodor Uglov died in St. Petersburg at the 104th year of his life. He got into the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest practicing surgeon.
24.06.2008On June 22, 2008, surgeon Fyodor Uglov died in St. Petersburg at the 104th year of his life. He got into the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest practicing surgeon.
24.06.2008A healthy lifestyle significantly changes the expression of hundreds of genes. The activity of a large number of genes, including several involved in the formation of tumors, decreases, while the work of other genes, including several involved in the fight against various diseases, is noticeably activated.
24.06.2008The cause of death of the 76-year-old Frenchman, who lived 2.5 months after Carmat artificial heart transplantation, was a short circuit in the mechanism.
18.03.2014The number of participants in the cluster of biological and medical technologies of the Skolkovo Foundation has now exceeded 200 companies. Half of them carry out projects in the field of cancer diagnosis and treatment.
08.07.2013To determine the main vital functions of the body, including temperature, heart rate and rhythm, blood oxygen level and stress level, it is enough to hold a miniature Scout scanner at the forehead for a few seconds.
27.05.2013The number of "black innovators" could be orders of magnitude greater if it were not for the concerted opposition from several public organizations in the field of innovation at once.
18.09.2012Google founder Sergey Brin, who inherited a mutation from his mother that significantly increases the risk of developing Parkinson's disease, decided to stimulate the search for new drugs for the treatment of Parkinsonism.
16.05.2012The technique of therapeutic cloning is quite complex in technical terms and ambiguous from an ethical point of view, but with its help it was possible to cure Parkinson's disease in mice. In the future, it may become an effective method of combating Parkinson's disease in humans.
24.03.2008The Savelovsky court of Moscow granted the claim of the psychotherapist Anatoly Kashpirovsky to the chief psychiatrist of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation V. Shamrey and the VGTRK TV company. Shamrey claimed that Kashpirovsky was harming a significant number of people and understood this.
15.06.2011An express test for AIDS based on a saliva sample has gone on sale in China, with the help of which people can independently check themselves for the presence of an immunodeficiency virus.
11.05.2011Patients with one of the varieties of macular degeneration, Stargardt's disease, will become the second group in the world to receive stem cells from embryos left over from in vitro fertilization.
22.11.2010According to a study published in the BMJ, 67% of men and 40% of women aged 65-74 have had sex in the last 12 months, and in 75-85 years – more than a third of men and only 17% of women.
19.04.2010The Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation receives appeals from citizens who receive calls on behalf of fictional employees of the department with a proposal to pay compensation for ineffective treatment with medicines and dietary supplements.
19.04.2010The document that amends Article 1 of the law "On the Temporary Ban on human cloning" prohibits only the reproductive cloning of humans.
10.03.2010A system of nanopores can significantly speed up genome analysis, allowing direct analysis of DNA chains from tens of thousands or more base pairs, rather than reconstructing their structure from fragments of short segments.
23.12.2009Attempts to cure a patient with a complex open leg fracture complicated by infection failed, and the only alternative to amputation was experimental treatment with their own stem cells.
17.12.2009According to the authors, this was such a confusing observation that they had to repeat the experiments several more times until they were finally convinced of the ability of telomeres to recover.
19.10.2009More than half of Russian innovative entrepreneurs do not trust the activities of state innovation structures and venture funds with state participation.
14.09.2009The Organizing Committee of the Russian Innovation Week invites you to take part in the II St. Petersburg International Innovation Forum, which will be held on September 30 – October 3, 2009 in St. Petersburg.
01.09.2009New York researchers have identified three genes that specifically regulate the spread of breast cancer metastases to the brain. The data obtained are important for understanding the mechanisms of metastasis spread and developing possible approaches to cancer treatment, especially gene therapy methods.
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