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The Tooth Fairy's Castle

A British artist asks children to give her fallen baby teeth to create a monument to stem cells.

01.04.2011
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Nanotechnology has broken into the future for the fifth time

On March 26, a solemn ceremony of awarding the winners and prize-winners of the fifth All–Russian Intellectual Forum-Olympiad "Nanotechnology - a breakthrough into the Future" took place in the assembly hall of the First Academic Building of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

28.03.2011
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Sanofi still swallowed Genzyme

Representatives of Sanofi-aventis predict that due to the takeover of Genzyme by 2013, the company's net profit per share will increase by 0.75-1.003 euros.

18.02.2011
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The Complete electronic Encyclopedia of Life

The new gene map will not only help scientists better understand the biology and genetics of corn, but will also accelerate the development of new varieties of this important food grain. Now researchers will have to carefully analyze the collected information and draw a lot of conclusions, both purely cognitive and practical.

27.02.2008
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Embryonic stem lungs

The cells of the pulmonary epithelium obtained from embryonic stem cells can be used to treat severe lung diseases.

06.11.2009
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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.

16.10.2009
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Rusnano-2015: rainbow nanoprospects

Rusnano Group has reached its design capacity and intends to repay debts to the state by 2015. However, according to the expert of IC Finam Alexey Kurasov, by 2015 the Russian nanoindustry will amount to about 1.5% of the world, i.e. there will be no breakthrough.

21.09.2009
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Stem cells: waste – to income!

Stanford University researchers used adipose tissue as a starting material instead of skin to produce induced pluripotent stem cells, which is now being destroyed after liposuction.

09.09.2009
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Cancer cure found in tick saliva

Isolated from the saliva of ticks, the compound is able to slow down the reproduction of malignant tumor cells without harming healthy cells.

02.09.2009
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Cord Blood Gemabank

Gemabank considers Ukraine a promising direction and, in addition to providing cord blood storage services, is going to actively cooperate with leading Ukrainian transplantologists to improve the quality of transplants.

04.06.2009
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Old men and old women – educational toys

Further tests allowed to improve the invention, its interactive gaming table and information display, as well as to form a set of 20 computer games that train and regulate the most important mental skills, stimulate social perception. These games, among other things, are fascinating in themselves.

18.05.2009
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The world's first transgenic puppies glow red

The first cloned puppy was born in 2005, and dogs have been cloned more than once since then, but now, before the transfer of the nucleus, the fibroblast culture was infected with a modified retrovirus with an embedded gene of the red fluorescent anemone protein. Five glowing dogs feel good and glow like Kremlin stars under an ultraviolet lamp.

24.04.2009
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A stem cell bank has opened in Orenburg

The cryobank at the Orenburg Regional Blood Transfusion Station will isolate and store umbilical cord blood stem cells and adult peripheral blood stem cells at an ultra-low temperature for many years.

03.04.2009
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Probiotics: How useful are "healthy" yogurts?

Probiotics, discovered more than a century ago by Ilya Mechnikov, are the basis of a functional nutrition system: they restore the beneficial intestinal microflora. However, despite all their supposed advantages, probiotics are not a medicine, and their effects have not yet been sufficiently studied.

26.03.2009