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Development of a new method for the diagnosis of blood clotting disorders

The project provides for the creation of unique diagnostic devices that can detect disorders of the blood coagulation system.

Once again to the question of senile dementia and blood pressure

In patients taking angiotensin II receptor blockers that reduce blood pressure, the risk of developing senile dementia is halved.

The solution to obesity: make muscles gluttonous

For the treatment of obesity, one of the proteins of the shell of muscle cells can be turned off, as a result of which their efficiency decreases and the body spends more energy both at rest and during physical activity.

Dannon was punished for exaggerating the benefits of yogurt

As compensation for damages for non-compliance of the quality of Dannon yoghurts with the information distributed in advertising, you can get up to $ 100.

Put potential suicides on a needle?

Researchers from Mount Sinai Medical School in New York assigned a small group of patients with depression, prone to suicide, experimental treatment with intravenous injections of ketamine.

New HIV target identified

Oncohist: hope for patients with myeloid leukemia

Oncohist has already passed the first stage of clinical trials in Europe, which proved its safety, as well as indirectly confirming the effectiveness of this drug in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.

Stereolithography on biodegradable material – the basis for implants

The world's first biodegradable material suitable for use in conjunction with computer stereolithography will allow in the future to create high-quality bioengineered implants ready to replace damaged or failed organs or fragments of human body tissues.

Diagnosis by photo, treatment by phone... and no quackery!

The quality of medical examinations conducted at a distance with the help of modern means of communication is not much inferior to real visits of doctors.

Small and medium-sized businesses in the Russian nanoindustry

Until April 27, you can ask a question at the online conference "Small and medium-sized businesses in the nanoindustry of Russia", organized by RUSNANO and the All-Russian Public Organization of Small and Medium-sized Businesses "Support of Russia".

Insert your finger into the USB port

Now, 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.

For batteries

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded to John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries.

Algeferin helps antibiotics

This compound allows some types of sponges to withstand the proximity of a whole bouquet of pathogenic bacteria. Algeferin does not allow bacteria to form biofilms and dramatically weakens the ability acquired by bacteria to resist antibiotics. Under its action, microbes begin to die again from those antibacterial drugs to which they have long adapted.

A quarter cheaper

A biosimilar of eculizumab, the most expensive drug in the world, has been created in Russia.

The brain aging gene

The Bmi1 gene directly controls the degradation of retinal and cerebral cortex neurons, affecting the mechanisms of protection against free radicals.

Antithrombin from transgenic goat milk will soon be on sale in the USA

The FDA Commission recognized ATryn – human antithrombin from the milk of transgenic goats – as effective and safe. Perhaps it will become the first drug obtained from a genetically engineered mammal that is approved for use in the United States.

Not worse and inexpensive

The high-tech bionic prosthetic arm developed in the Novgorod NGO "Kvant" is 10 times cheaper than Western analogues.

The main mystery of super-twisted DNA has been solved

Biologists from the USA have discovered the mechanism of folding DNA into a compact super-twisted structure, which has long remained unknown.

It has been revealed what happens to the human body due to grammatical errors

Research has shown that people do suffer from grammatical and spelling errors

Muscle cells have been grown in the lab without genetic engineering

Researchers have developed a safe method to rapidly produce muscle cells from connective tissue