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Nobel Prize for the GPS system in the brain

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for the discovery of cells that make up the positioning system in the brain to researchers John O'Keefe, as well as spouses Mae Britt and Edward Moser.

06.10.2014
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Uterus transplantation: the first success

In Sweden, a patient with a transplanted uterus managed to give birth to a child for the first time in history. The boy was born prematurely, weighing 1 kg 800 grams, but doctors say that the mother and child are doing well.

06.10.2014
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The Nobel Week has begun

The winners of the Nobel Prizes for 2014 will be named in Stockholm and Oslo from October 6 to 13. The name of the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine will be announced today.

06.10.2014
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Between Belarus and Paraguay

According to the Global AgeWatch Index 2014 rating, Russia has moved from 78th to 65th place in the list of 96 countries in terms of the quality of life of elderly people.

01.10.2014
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There has never been such a thing in transplantology

Japanese doctors removed the lower lobe of the mother's left lung and, having "constructed" smaller left and right lungs from this tissue, performed an operation to transplant a new organ to a two-year-old child.

26.09.2014
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The government will fight antibiotic resistance

The Presidential Council for the Development of Science and Technology called on the government to double funding for the fight against drug resistance, allocating $1.8 billion for this purpose, as well as annually investing $ 800 million in the development of new antibiotics.

22.09.2014
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According to preliminary data, the Ebola vaccine is safe

In the coming days, GlaxoSmithKline's trial drug will be tested on the following 10 healthy volunteers. It is expected that the final conclusions on the possibility of mass use of the vaccine will be received by the end of the year.

17.09.2014
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Google for Parkinsonists

Google 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.

12.09.2014
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The first commercial

Russia's first commercial biobank was presented on Thursday in St. Petersburg at the EuroQSAR symposium, which brought together European scientists working on the creation of new medicines.

08.09.2014
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EuroQSAR-2014: results of the work

The twentieth European Symposium on computer-based drug design EuroQSAR is finishing its work in St. Petersburg today.

04.09.2014
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Rusnano will save Americans from alcohol poisoning

The financing attracted by the American company Aldea Pharmaceuticals will go to the organization of clinical trials of the drug AD-6626, designed to help patients with acute alcohol intoxication.

04.09.2014
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Ship fake viagra barrels

The police of several European countries, during the operation to detain a criminal group that distributed fake Viagra, arrested 12 suspects and confiscated a batch of counterfeit drugs worth more than 10 million euros.

02.09.2014
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Mammoth for the President

Putin was interested in the question of whether the materials found were suitable for cloning a mammoth. The museum staff explained that there is close cooperation with scientists from South Korea in this direction.

01.09.2014
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It's never too late to learn

63-year-old Viktor Yakovlevich Chizhov entered the full-time department of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology of the Vologda State Dairy Academy.

01.09.2014
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Hello, Doctor!

Moscow doctors began to receive patients by phone. So far, the project has been launched in test mode in the North-Eastern district of the capital, but in the future it is promised to be distributed throughout the city.

28.08.2014
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The Mammoth Revival project is ready to start work

The International Center of Molecular Paleontology will open in September this year in Yakutsk. The center will conduct genetic studies of the found paleontological material, mainly mammoth cells.

20.08.2014