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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

Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine named

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Yoshinori Osumi for revealing the mechanism of autophagy, the process of recycling unnecessary parts of a cell inside lysosomes or vacuoles.

Insurance and genetics

A round table meeting "Insurance and medical Genetics" was held in Moscow yesterday, during which experts tried to find common ground between these two areas.

Synthetic Biology in Siberia

Novosibirsk scientists will develop cell lines on which they will be able to test new drugs. In the future, artificial cells will be used to treat diseases.

Presumption of consent

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation found no violations in the law on transplantation, according to which there is a presumption of consent to the removal of organs.

Risk is a forced matter

Programmer V. Spiridonov, who has been appointed the first candidate in the world to perform a neurosurgical head transplant on a new body, is going to the USA, where a conference will be held.

Nanotechnology according to GOST

Starting from January 1, 2016, a number of interstate standards for nanotechnology will become effective for voluntary use in the Russian Federation.

Eggs withstand long-term storage

Despite the progress in the field of artificial insemination, the appearance of a child from an egg that has been frozen for 13 years is rare for Japan.

Gray hair in the beard – the devil in the rib: starvation does not affect it

In females "sitting" on a starvation diet, aging of the body leads to significant violations of the functions of the ovaries, and in starving males, age-related changes in the cells of the testes are much less pronounced.

Graphene-c? In a condom, sir? Original, sir!

Researchers from the University of Manchester received a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the amount of 100 thousand dollars for the development of condoms using the "Nobel" material.

Fruit Solar Panels

Rowan University students use berry and fruit pigments to create solar panels.

Is beta-catechin one of the causes of alcoholism?

How to get to an organ transplant without waiting in line?

Almost 10% of Israelis have signed a consent after death to donate their organs for transplantation. Everyone who signs such a form gets an advantage in the "waiting list" if he himself needs an organ transplant.

Old people are beaten, kicked, burned and stabbed...

Every year in the countries of the WHO European Region, four million older people are subjected to physical violence and abuse. At least two and a half thousand elderly people per year die at the hands of their family members.

Another "baldness gene"

Despite the fact that hereditary hypotrichosis and ordinary baldness are not the same thing at all, the authors of the study hope that the results obtained will allow the development of non–hormonal drugs that prevent hair loss.

Another cause of Alzheimer's disease?

A small peptide fragment cleaved from the beta-amyloid precursor protein causes the same damage to cellular structures as the formation of amyloid plaques. These data open up new ways to find remedies for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

"Jumping genes" of monkeys suggested a new way to treat HIV infection

An international team of scientists has identified a combination of genes that prevent infection of monkeys with retroviruses.

Grief does not turn gray

No matter how stressful and stressful a woman's life may be, she will not turn gray for this reason. The appearance of gray hair is determined by an innate set of genes.

Cell therapy of chronic heart failure

For cell therapy, scientists used cardiomyocyte progenitor cells obtained as a result of differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells from the bone marrow of 46 patients.

The search for aging factors

A new Canadian study highlights the general health issues of older people and the factors that ensure a healthy old age and active longevity.