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Pigs were forced to suffer from diabetes

Genetically modified pigs, which consistently develop symptoms of type 2 diabetes, provide new opportunities for research into the mechanisms of development and ways to treat diabetes.

04.03.2010
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Stem cells save from amputation

Attempts 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.

17.12.2009
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Save lonely Molecules: A new antioxidant system

Scientists have discovered a new system of protection against excess free radicals – true, so far only in bacteria, but this discovery will help improve the methods of human antioxidant therapy.

23.11.2009
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Fast food leads to overeating and obesity

Rapid absorption of food limits the production of "satiety hormones" and inhibits the feeling of satiety, which can eventually lead to overeating.

09.11.2009
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Test Tube Joint

A fragment of the maxillary bone, which is part of the temporomandibular joint, was grown in a bioreactor from bone marrow stem cells, which were seeded onto a frame that copies the shape of the corresponding bone of the patient.

12.10.2009
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Jubilee Nobel Prize for the "aging enzyme"

Three American scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in the field of research on the mechanisms of cell aging and chromosome protection using telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.

05.10.2009
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Another step towards a universal vaccine against all flu strains

The next stage of clinical trials of a universal influenza vaccine has been successfully completed. A universal vaccine will be able to protect a person from a variety of flu strains and prevent death and serious complications from the disease.

29.04.2009
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Direct reprogramming of cells

The 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.

20.04.2009
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Animal rights or human rights?

The process of finding new drugs for the treatment of diseases such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease may stop if the EU implements its intentions to tighten the rules for conducting experiments on animals in scientific laboratories.

30.03.2009
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Motor neurons from stem cells

Motor neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells demonstrate normal electrical activity and possess all the other properties of ordinary nerve cells of this type.

25.02.2009
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Vitamin vapes

Doctors are not ready to confirm that the new format of taking vitamins is really better than the traditional ones.

10.10.2018
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Genome editing was helped financially

The implementation of the project will make it possible to bring to clinical practice the technology of treatment of patients with lymphomas and HIV who are shown bone marrow transplantation.

11.07.2017
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Goodbye, Glibera!

It's not just that the drug costs $1,000,000. The product was put on the market without sufficient evidence to prove that it is really worth the money.

24.04.2017
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Give me a bonus!

Applications for the Moscow Government Awards for Young scientists for 2016 have been accepted in the capital. The number of participants in the selection was one and a half times higher than last year.

10.11.2016