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The artificial heart is working!

The grown hearts were transplanted into the abdominal cavity of stem cell donor rats. The organs took root, and, as expected, did not cause a rejection reaction. Now it is necessary to check whether the resulting heart muscle is capable of providing sufficient blood circulation throughout the body.

Resistance of liver cells to insulin is the cause of metabolic syndrome

Are you treating periodontal disease? Check the heart!

The increased risk of periodontal disease and coronary heart disease is due to a certain section of the antisense DNA chain on the ninth chromosome.

"The formula of diseases"

In the future, the authors believe, the schemes they have created will be used in everyday medical practice: for example, during an examination, a doctor will be able to obtain information about all the patient's diseases, related diseases and – in the future – a set of genes responsible for their development.

RUSNANO invites banks to cooperate

RUSNANO has developed a procedure for attracting banks to provide settlement and cash services to Project companies.

Infertility insurance

For the first time in the world, Russian scientists have received full-fledged embryos grown from ovarian tissue cells after its removal.

Restricted access

23andMe, one of the first companies to provide access to its data for third-party applications, is ending their support.

Dangerous mutation

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

Alzheimer's disease and herpes: the tasks are clear...

Taking into account the new data, the authors suggested that drugs used to treat herpes can also prevent the development of dementia in Alzheimer's disease. A possible alternative to fighting this disease may be vaccination against the herpes virus.

Come to us for treatment

In St. Petersburg, they plan to create a medical tourism agency. It is expected to increase the number of medical tourists from 130 to 325 thousand people per year.

Rusnanotech-2008: watch the live broadcast!

The First International Forum on Nanotechnology opened today at the Expocenter on Krasnaya Presnya. An online video broadcast from the Forum is being conducted on the RUSNANO website.

The brain-computer interface allowed the paralyzed American to pronounce sounds

The electrode implanted in the speech center was connected to a sound synthesizer through a computer converter. Thanks to this, the patient was able to clearly pronounce three vowel sounds. The researchers plan to achieve the utterance of individual words, and in the future, whole phrases.

A new drug has emerged that "postpones" diabetes

Drug that 'postpones' diabetes shows promising results in new clinical trial

Neuroscience researchers have proposed treating Parkinson's disease without pills

Specialists of the Research Institute of Neurosciences of SamSMU offer to treat Parkinson's disease using transcranial magnetic stimulation

Deep stimulation restores brain function years after stroke

Researchers have published the results of a phase 1 clinical trial of deep brain stimulation for stroke rehabilitation

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

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.

Put the tumor on a diet

The impact of nanoscale agents with a diameter of 200 nm and a thickness of less than one nm developed by Tomsk researchers leads to "starvation" of cancer cells.

New drug against Alzheimer's disease shows great promise

Oral administration of PBT2 induces a marked improvement in the ability to learn and memorize in both mouse models of Alzheimer's disease. These effects manifested themselves very quickly: a decrease in the level of the soluble intermediate form of beta-amyloid occurred within a few hours, and a significant improvement in cognitive function occurred within a few days after the first intake.