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Mechanism that stimulates brain self-healing after stroke discovered

Researchers have identified a molecular pathway that stimulates damaged cells to self-repair after ischemic stroke

St. Petersburg has developed a mobile laboratory for creating an artificial heart

ITMO University has created Russia's first mobile laboratory-cube for working with cells

Portable operating room

A portable operating room was developed at MIT: it fits in a backpack

Dangerous effects of snoring and sleep apnea named

According to a new study, sleep apnea may be associated with certain indicators of impaired brain health

A new generation bandage

The ACCSIL bandage ("First aid for acute limb injury") allows not only to bandage the injury, but also to minimize damage from injury for up to 3 days.

Are you afraid of obesity? Check your dopamine receptors!

Obese people may have fewer dopamine receptors, and they overeat to compensate for the lack of pleasure from food.

Lung Cancer vaccine

The vaccine has already been tested on four thousand patients in Cuba and other countries, and the results are very promising: life extension has reached five years.

Pharmacogenetics has reached Yakutia

The program being developed at NEFU will automatically issue conclusions based on the entered results of pharmacogenetic testing of 21 drugs of 11 pharmacological groups.

"Emergency transplant"

In New York, it is planned to create an ambulance service to preserve fresh corpses. This will save the organs of the deceased for the needs of transplantation.

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A Russian company will conduct cancer drug trials in the United States

The Russian biopharmaceutical company Incuron has received FDA approval for clinical trials of the drug for the treatment of patients with progressive malignant tumors.

Don't the nanos smell? And how do they affect nature?

In 2003, neurophysiologists from the Allen Institute have already presented to the world a three-dimensional genetic atlas of the mouse brain. There are not many more genes in the human brain than in the mouse, but the human brain itself is 2000 times larger than the mouse brain. Therefore, scanning the activity of genes in all its areas is an incredibly ambitious task.

The pharmaceutical cluster is not rubber!

The official did not name the specific number of pharmaceutical cluster companies that are planned to be developed in St. Petersburg, but stressed that in any case their number will be finite.

And you can't get off the oil pipe, and eat innovations

The Ministry of Economic Development has offered the government two options for the forecast of Russia's development until 2030 – innovative and energy-resource. The government will have to decide which is more important: strengthening state investments or reducing the deficit.

A new target of anti–cancer therapy is tumor stroma

rotative-tumor factor.

Roll, cage, big and small

Two types of microRNAs, miR-1 and miR-133, associated with the development of muscle tissue, not only stimulate the formation of heart muscle tissue, but also actively suppress genes whose functioning leads to the differentiation of embryonic stem cells into cells of other types, for example, neurons or osteocytes.

Before radiotherapy, turn off the POLQ gene in tumor cells

The POLQ gene, which does not work in healthy cells, is involved in the restoration of irradiated DNA in tumor cells. Cancer cells with blocked POLQ become much more sensitive to radiotherapy.

Matadors are not being cloned yet…

Will dietary supplements be kicked out of the media?

The main danger of advertising dietary supplements is that sellers position them as a medicine. "Scammers make money on the grief and credulity of citizens," the author of the bill notes.

Russian pharmaceutical industry will be treated in clusters

Zelenograd Technopark for pharmaceutical companies became the third, the creation of which was announced over the past month: earlier, the authorities of St. Petersburg and Yaroslavl reported on the creation of clusters for the pharmaceutical industry.