Doctor's Heart
The 59-year-old doctor felt a sharp pain in his chest half an hour after the start of the operation, but decided to bring the surgical intervention to an end despite the persuasions of colleagues.
24.03.2009The 59-year-old doctor felt a sharp pain in his chest half an hour after the start of the operation, but decided to bring the surgical intervention to an end despite the persuasions of colleagues.
24.03.2009Researchers have refuted data that fly larvae accelerate wound healing and reduce the risk of developing staphylococcal infection.
23.03.2009When using sowing and growing mycobacterium cultures, it takes several weeks to isolate the causative agent of tuberculosis. The use of bacteriophages carrying the fluorescent protein gene reduces this time to several days.
23.03.2009Sequencing one human genome with this technique using a single tunneling microscope will take several months, and the tunneling microscope itself is not a cheap thing; there are many other technical difficulties. However, the problems facing the first chemical sequencers were even more complicated.
23.03.2009British scientists are launching a project to create universal donor blood from embryonic stem cells – it can be produced in unlimited quantities. As experts hope, the first transfusion can be carried out in three years.
23.03.2009The Finnish Agency for Technology and Innovation Financing Tekes has simplified the procedure for issuing grants to developers. Russian companies can claim the money.
23.03.2009Managers who are considered polite and pleasant people by subordinates and colleagues succeed more.
23.03.2009Russia is ready to issue loans on very favorable terms and invest in Israeli companies. At the same time, Mr. Chubais made it clear that this proposal includes certain requirements from the Russian side. In particular, Russia will insist that the entire production part be carried out at Russian enterprises.
20.03.2009After 8 weeks of using NEU-P11, the obese rats lost almost the weight of the control group animals. The same effect was found for melatonin, however, when using NEU-P11, body weight decreased faster. It was also noted that NEU-P11, like melatonin, does not affect feed intake.
20.03.2009The US National Science Foundation has published data on the funds for scientific research that American universities and colleges received in 2007.
19.03.2009Anesthesiologist Scott Reuben is accused of fabricating the results of at least 21 clinical trials of painkillers over the past 12 years.
18.03.2009Now, according to the programmer, several programs are stored on his thumb drive, in particular, Billix, CouchDBX and Ajatus. Yavala plans to improve the prosthesis by making the fingertip removable and installing an RFID tag in it.
18.03.2009Talking about his second brainchild, the Eternal Youth Foundation, Andrei Fomenko complains that his ideas for investing money in biotechnology, which would allow a person to live longer, have not yet found mass support among other oligarchs.
18.03.2009One of the Corporation's priorities for 2009 is the formation of a pool of Russian and foreign investors interested in joining RUSNANO projects, as well as in acquiring a share of the Corporation after its exit from the project.
18.03.2009By 2012, 10,000 stem cell samples should be harvested. Such a bank, according to doctors, will greatly simplify the treatment of hematological diseases – for example, leukemia.
17.03.2009The Jubilee Fifth Moscow International Congress "Biotechnology: state and Prospects of Development" and the Seventh International Specialized Exhibition "World of Biotechnology 2009" began their work on March 16 this year.
17.03.2009Respondents over the age of 27 showed a significant decrease in results in tests for logic, quick thinking and spatial imagination. Scientists have recorded memory deterioration in study participants over 37 years old; other intellectual functions begin to decline after 42 years.
17.03.2009Every fifth small biotech company in Europe may be on the verge of bankruptcy in 2009 due to the termination of financing amid the global credit crisis.
17.03.2009To the list of factors most associated with a person's longevity, another one was unexpectedly added, which was not particularly thought about before – the speed of a person's reaction to events happening around him.
16.03.2009The first meeting of the interdepartmental working group on the development of the production of genetically engineered drugs and other high-tech medicines was held in the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia.
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