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DNA sequencing using nanopores: even faster and cheaper

A system of nanopores can significantly speed up genome analysis, allowing direct analysis of DNA chains from tens of thousands or more base pairs, rather than reconstructing their structure from fragments of short segments.

23.12.2009
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Save lonely Molecules: A new antioxidant system

Scientists have discovered a new system of protection against excess free radicals – true, so far only in bacteria, but this discovery will help improve the methods of human antioxidant therapy.

23.11.2009
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Fast food leads to overeating and obesity

Rapid absorption of food limits the production of "satiety hormones" and inhibits the feeling of satiety, which can eventually lead to overeating.

09.11.2009
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Test Tube Joint

A fragment of the maxillary bone, which is part of the temporomandibular joint, was grown in a bioreactor from bone marrow stem cells, which were seeded onto a frame that copies the shape of the corresponding bone of the patient.

12.10.2009
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Jubilee Nobel Prize for the "aging enzyme"

Three American scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in the field of research on the mechanisms of cell aging and chromosome protection using telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.

05.10.2009
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Gene therapy against diabetic polyneuropathy

Intramuscular injections of the VEGF gene (vascular endothelial growth factor) can relieve patients from polyneuropathy, in which the sensitivity of the legs and feet decreases, weakness appears and problems with maintaining balance arise.

04.05.2009
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Direct reprogramming of cells

The method of cell reprogramming, which the authors called "transcriptome induced phenotype remodeling" (transcriptome induced phenotype remodeling) is that the original cell is not turned into a pluripotent one, capable of developing in several directions. Instead of "embryonic genes", a large amount of matrix RNA is injected into the cell, on which proteins characteristic of the desired type of cells are synthesized.

20.04.2009
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Motor neurons from stem cells

Motor neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells demonstrate normal electrical activity and possess all the other properties of ordinary nerve cells of this type.

25.02.2009
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Vitamin vapes

Doctors are not ready to confirm that the new format of taking vitamins is really better than the traditional ones.

10.10.2018
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Generation of fatties

Surveys of 20,000 Britons have established which of the modern generations will be the most prone to overweight and obesity.

26.02.2018
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Goodbye, Glibera!

It's not just that the drug costs $1,000,000. The product was put on the market without sufficient evidence to prove that it is really worth the money.

24.04.2017
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Give me a bonus!

Applications for the Moscow Government Awards for Young scientists for 2016 have been accepted in the capital. The number of participants in the selection was one and a half times higher than last year.

10.11.2016
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GM mosquitoes against Zika virus

WHO will support the use of genetically modified mosquitoes to fight Zika disease. Previously, such methods were considered too new and potentially dangerous for mass use.

19.02.2016
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A sermon on bioethics

With regard to the protection of life, science should by no means prevail over man: with such an admonition, Pope Francis addressed the Italian Bioethics Committee at an audience on January 28.

29.01.2016