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Nicotine vaccine has reached the finish line
The US National Institute for Drug Addiction has allocated a grant of $ 10 million for the final stage of the development of NicVAX – a vaccine against nicotine addiction.
16.10.2009A superfood for weight loss?
In an experiment on rats, a peptide hormone recently discovered in the centers of the brain that control appetite turned out to be significantly more effective than existing weight loss drugs.
15.06.2009Live Artificial Heart Valves
An artificial heart valve, if it is implanted in a child, is bad, in particular, because its size does not change as the patient grows. In the laboratory of Biotechnology and Artificial Organs of the Hanover Medical School, the operation to transplant a biotechnological heart valve to children of different ages was performed sixteen times.
10.06.2009Diabetes medicine in the fight against multiple sclerosis
The drug, which is commonly used in the treatment of diabetes, protects neurons in multiple sclerosis.
29.05.2009Protect yourself
The developers of the COVID-19 vaccine have tested it on themselves. The result is positive: immunity has been formed, and no negative effects have been detected.
22.05.2020Biotechnology-2009
The 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.
17.03.2009The "brain drain" from Russia has almost stopped
Today we can talk about labor migration, scientific and scientific-technical exchange, but not about the mass relocation of domestic scientists abroad, as it was a few years ago.
02.03.2009Sunscreen mustache
American scientists have found a link between the presence of a mustache and a reduced risk of developing lower lip cancer.
24.05.2019To help the surgeon
Thanks to the domestic medical glue from the patient's blood plasma, even deep wounds and severe burns heal faster.
02.04.2019Induced pluripotent stem cells restored the spinal cord
For the first time in the world, the therapeutic effect of human iPSCs has been proven: a month after the operation, all 29 mice paralyzed as a result of spinal cord injury began to walk, and some even run.
04.02.2009A Step towards Cystic fibrosis gene Therapy
Moscow scientists have developed and successfully tested the first Russian gene therapy for cystic fibrosis on cell cultures.
16.01.2019Investing in exoskeletons
VEB Innovations is investing 70 million rubles. in the development of an exoskeleton for children and adolescents, which the ExoaThlet company is engaged in.
09.04.2018Bacteria with an expanded genetic code were obtained
Over the past two years, scientists have been able to make their bacteria much hardier, as well as ensure the transfer of nucleotides X and Y to descendants during bacterial division.
24.01.2017Anti-cancer tomatoes
Scientists have included two snapdragon genes responsible for the synthesis of anthocyanin in the genome of ordinary tomatoes. As a result, they managed to get dark purple tomatoes with a high content of a useful antioxidant.
27.10.2008A rare gene protected a man from disease
A man from Colombia was found to have an unusual genetic mutation that caused him to develop Alzheimer's disease (AD) with an early onset
17.05.2023A biocomputer inside a living cell
Scientists used live yeast cells as the "working body" of the biocomputer. Functional elements were assembled inside them from fragments of various RNA molecules.
17.10.2008Another pluripotent stem cells from skin cells
Instead of a viral vector, scientists used plasmids to inject "embryonic" genes into fibroblasts, with the help of which they managed to successfully transform ordinary skin cells into pluripotent stem cells.
13.10.2008Reconstruction of the pancreas
Insulin-producing cells derived from human cells injected into mice react to glucose levels and migrate to the pancreas, reconstructing it.
29.06.2016Decoding the human genome: getting closer to the $1000 milestone
An American company promises to decode the human genome for five thousand dollars next year.
07.10.2008