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Insulin synthesis can be seen in the eyes

One such molecule is similar in shape to a ring with four spokes, which can individually occupy several different positions (which can be interpreted as binary zeros and ones). 16 molecules also make up a ring, with the 17th "sister" in the center, and together form a molecular machine capable of encoding over 4 billion combinations in the position of its parts.

A new target of anti–cancer therapy is tumor stroma

rotative-tumor factor.

Placenta is the cradle of hematopoietic stem cells

Advanced Mongolian nanotechnology

Nanotechnology was named among the most promising areas of cooperation with Russian scientific centers at the Convention of the Mongols of the World.

Global pharmaceutical market: we are waiting for changes!

Unfortunately, the advice "Rest, rest is the best medicine" is not suitable for the heart. And if you wrap a sick or tired heart with an elastic exoskeleton?

Useless healthcare

The American healthcare system uselessly spends about a third of its budget. Due to fraud alone, it loses up to $200 billion. per year.

A register of bone marrow donors is being created in St. Petersburg

Cancer treatment: an encouraging result

Researchers from the Sydney biotech company EnGeneIC cured cancer with drugs in a "wrapper" from the membrane of bacteria. Scientists plan to start testing on cancer-stricken volunteers within a month.

Urine analysis instead of biopsy

After kidney transplantation, the patient has to undergo a painful biopsy procedure every six months, or even more often. The Russian Scientific Center of Surgery has developed a method for determining the danger of rejection of a transplanted kidney by protein markers in urine.

Another gene regulator of cholesterol levels

Vladimir SHABALIN, Director of the Gerontology Research Institute, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, knows all the secrets of aging and life extension and willingly shares them.

Russian-Israeli Nanotechnology Foundation

Leonid Melamed, CEO of Rusnano, said that Israel's advantage is a significant advance in nanotechnology, an orientation towards international cooperation and a significant number of Russian–speaking scientists – representatives of the Soviet scientific school. The Russian side offers "uniquely favorable conditions" to foreign innovators.

WHO encourages the treatment of AIDS and tuberculosis with homeopathy

Representatives of the World Health Organization declined to comment on a letter from the international community of young doctors and scientists calling on WHO to publicly condemn the use of homeopathic remedies for the treatment of AIDS, malaria and other serious diseases.

Cell reprogramming: proteins instead of genes

In their publication, the scientists note that the "protein-induced pluripotent stem cells" they obtained, like their classical counterparts, are able to transition back into a specific state and form the tissues of developing mouse embryos.

Will stem cells restore hearing?

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have managed to transform embryonic stem cells into hair sensory cells of the inner ear. If we can find a way to deliver new cells to the inner ear and implant them correctly, then the possibility of complete restoration of hearing will become a reality.

RUSNANO is interested in your opinion

Survey of users' opinions on the structure, content and external design of the Internet portal of the GC "Rosnanotech".

Barcode for patients

British medical cards are now placed on a bracelet with a bar code or color code.

Aubrey de Grey is coming to us

The visit was organized by the national Foundation "Science for Life Extension" together with the Institute of Aging Biology and the Gerontological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Diagnosis on TV

The American presenter of the Inside Edition news portal Deborah Norville, thanks to her audience, learned about the presence of cancer.

Cheaper and less toxic

A young scientist of PSNIU Sergey Shipilovskikh received a grant from the Russian Academy of Sciences for the development of a new class of antibiotics.

Getting ready to grow "female spermatozoa"

In the future, "female" spermatozoa grown in the laboratory can be used for artificial insemination of eggs. In this case, the biological "father" of the resulting child will be a donor woman, from whose cells spermatozoa were obtained.