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Diabetes Cell therapy: another breakthrough
Tiny sensors are embedded in the fabric of such clothes, registering information about movements and indicators of vital functions of the body – breathing, heart rate, temperature of various parts of the body. The data can be analyzed remotely using the built-in GPRS transmitters.
22.02.2008The Government has approved the State biotechnology program
Within four years, the state will finance research and development work and entrepreneurship in the field of biotechnology in the amount of over 0.5 billion rubles.
29.12.2009Reprogrammed cells: a record of productivity and precocity
The new method gives a more than two-hundredfold increase in the efficiency of reprogramming and a reduction in the period to two weeks compared to the "old" methods using four transcription factors.
27.10.2009Do you want to become a co-investor of Rusnano?
Rusnano's approach makes it possible to make infrastructure projects cost–effective, therefore attractive to co-investors.
22.10.2009Sick, wake up! It's time to take a sleeping pill!
Thanks to the microchips that are implanted into each tablet, the receiver tracks each intake of the drug. If the patient has not taken the medicine at the time set by the doctor, the receiver sends him a text message with a reminder.
23.09.2009FAS warns: cosmetics should not be sold under the guise of medicines
In accordance with the current legislation, pharmacies are intended for the sale of medicines. Perfumery and cosmetic products do not belong to medicines. Whether their sale in pharmacies is misleading customers is a separate question.
03.06.2009Cardiomyocytes from stem cells
Mesodermal cells capable of forming bone, blood, skeletal muscle and other tissues, when added to the culture medium of Baf60c, Tbx5 and Gata4 factors, turned only into cardiomyocytes, which rhythmically contracted like normal heart muscle cells.
28.04.2009Probiotics: 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.
26.03.2009Billions for science
The US National Science Foundation has published data on the funds for scientific research that American universities and colleges received in 2007.
19.03.2009The "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.
02.03.2009Induced 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.
04.02.2009Wheelchair – telepath
Electrodes located on a special cap connected to the chair read the electrical activity of brain neurons and, thanks to the developed device and processor, translate these impulses into commands for a wheelchair.
29.01.2009A new hope for balding
A substance used in perfumery to imitate the smell of sandalwood stimulates human hair growth.
19.09.2018Cousinship is not such a dangerous property?
The risk of having a child with genetic defects in a marriage between cousins is no higher than that of a woman over the age of forty.
25.12.2008Soldiers in biostasis
The long–range aim of the "Biostasis" program is to expand the possibilities of successful recovery of fighters after severe injuries.
06.03.2018Advertising of medicines: from changing the places of the components...
American pharmaceutical manufacturers pretend to change the rules for advertising medicines.
15.12.2008The development of the "Oncorobot" is coming to an end
A prototype of the Onkorobot system for contact radiation therapy of prostate cancer will be created by the end of 2018, its tests will last about another year.
14.07.2017Chelate complexes for cancer diagnosis
Russian scientists have created a radiopharmaceutical for the accurate diagnosis of oncological diseases, labeled with the technetium-99 isotope.
25.05.2017Inject allergens into the lymph nodes
The introduction of allergens directly into the lymph nodes helps to cope with pollen allergies.
11.11.2008