Web instead of Kevlar
Spider web body armor will not be stronger than Kevlar. Their advantage is their lightness and flexibility, allowing them to protect not only the trunk, but also the limbs.
14.07.2016Spider web body armor will not be stronger than Kevlar. Their advantage is their lightness and flexibility, allowing them to protect not only the trunk, but also the limbs.
14.07.2016Scientists from the British University of Newcastle have made a breakthrough in understanding the causes of the growth of a deadly brain tumor – as it turned out, glioma cells use fats for their growth.
08.07.2016It is possible that the micro-RNA molecules that are responsible for the regeneration of the lizard's tail will help a person restore cartilage, muscles and spine in the future.
12.05.2016Scientists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research (Sydney), working under the guidance of Dr. John A. Hawley, have demonstrated for the first time that a combination of caffeine and carbohydrates helps restore the energy reserve of muscles after a heavy load.
08.07.2008On March 17-20, 2015, the VIII Moscow International Congress "Biotechnology: State and Prospects of Development" was held in Moscow with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
26.03.2015American scientists have managed to completely cure a patient with inoperable metastasized melanoma with the help of his own immune cells. During two years of follow-up after therapy, the 55-year-old man did not show any signs of a tumor.
20.06.2008The process of egg release from the mature follicle was recorded by an endoscope camera inserted into the pelvic cavity of the patient. The video shows how a reddish protrusion appears in the hole formed by the action of enzymes in the wall of the follicle, and from it – an egg, which is sent to the fallopian tube.
17.06.2008When grown in a periodically switched on hydraulic press, artificial cartilage tissue grows three times more durable than under normal pressure.
10.06.2008Google has acquired the startup Lift Labs, which introduced an electronic spoon that allows sufferers of Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases to take liquid food on their own.
12.09.2014In females "sitting" on a starvation diet, aging of the body leads to significant violations of the functions of the ovaries, and in starving males, age-related changes in the cells of the testes are much less pronounced.
05.06.2008Reconstruction and re-equipment of the Institute of Experimental Medicine, which is part of the V.A.Almazov Federal Medical Research Center, has been completed.
30.06.2014Doctors in the UK have given a 71-year-old woman the opportunity to move independently by implanting a hip joint created using a 3D printer.
19.05.2014The Ministry of Health plans to complete the transition to electronic medical records by 2020.
13.03.2014The frames of the video lasting a little more than a minute were "drawn" by IBM specialists from individual CO molecules (they were called atoms "for simplicity"), which moved along a copper substrate using a scanning tunneling microscope.
14.05.2013Researchers from Cardiff University have integrated human liver and lung cells and created a "metabo-lung" – a living tissue suitable for assessing the toxicity of drugs.
28.11.2011A method of diabetes treatment has been registered in Russia by transplanting porcine beta cells of the pancreas that produce insulin. Until now, therapeutic techniques using animal tissues have not been registered in the world.
17.12.2010In the UK, a black couple had a white, blue-eyed child. Doctors believe that genes played a joke with parents.
21.07.2010Transgenic tobacco has been created, which, along with its plant proteins, synthesizes human collagen.
11.06.2010The revealed connection between certain genes and the body's ability to resist pathogenic fungi will allow in the future to develop alternative methods of treating candidiasis and other fungal infections.
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