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New member of the Board of RUSNANO

In his new position, Yuri Udaltsov will oversee issues of stimulating innovative development, including the creation of a legislative framework and innovation infrastructure.

Per tooth

The meat samples printed on the ISS will be as compact as in the experiment that took place in December – a few millimeters.

"Nanotechnology in the world" No. 12-2008

The central theme of the new issue of the digest "Nanotechnology in the world" was the first International Forum on Nanotechnology, organized by RUSNANO.

Dangerous mutation

Cardiff University scientists have discovered a mutation that contributes to the development of an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

The man-eating Ford drove on human fat

A beautician from Beverly Hills processed the fat he removed from his patients into biofuels, and refueled his Ford and his girlfriend's Lincoln with it.

Scientists have figured out how to make safe sugar for diabetics

Found a new way to get bacteria to produce allulose, a potential substitute for table sugar

A new two-in-one microscope has helped scientists look inside cells

The researchers combined two imaging techniques in a single microscope to obtain high-resolution images of such cells

AI has been taught to predict heart disease

Researchers analyzed abdominal aortic calcinosis using a machine learning algorithm

"Light therapy": how it works and can give people back their memories

A laser treatment technology known as transcranial photobiomodulation has shown good results in improving short-term memory

How many cups of coffee you have to drink to wake up

Low dose caffeine suppresses alpha brain waves and improves executive functions

Popular sweetener linked to risk of stroke and heart attack

Popular sugar substitute linked to increased risk of heart attack and stroke in at-risk adults

A medication to prevent vision loss

Researchers found a potential solution to fight vision deterioration and retinal detachment in people living with diabetes

Portable operating room

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

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.

I'm going to my homeland…

Six new biotechnological laboratories will be opened at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University by the end of the year. They will be headed by Russians who have long gone abroad, and now have decided to work at home.

Another cloned dog, now a cancer sniffer

If cloning is successful, it is planned to create more clones of Marin to be sent to organizations in different countries that study cancer diagnosis with the help of dogs.

Sales of antitumor drugs are 2 times ahead of the overall growth of the global pharmaceutical market

The increase in the volume of sales of antitumor drugs will be provided by drugs introduced to the market over the past decade, aimed at certain targets, as well as a longer period of treatment of an increasing number of patients.

Atherosclerosis is even more dangerous than you think

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.

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