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Bacteria were put on the counter

According to the researchers, the counter can be associated with any external events, the influence of which the bacterium is able to feel (for example, it regularly reacts to the presence of certain toxins), as well as with changes in the internal state of the microorganism. The bacterium can be forced to "self-destruct" after the completion of a certain number of cell divisions or after a given time.

01.06.2009
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Growing artificial organs: sheep instead of bioreactors

Scientist Yutaka Hanazono shows a journalist a sheep involved in the experiment. There is a small trace of the operation on her belly, and behind it is a "spare" pancreas grown on the basis of chimpanzee stem cells.

05.05.2009
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Rusnano will save, but invest

After the reduction of funding, the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation (Rusnano) should spend 45 billion rubles on activities and implementation of projects in 2009 instead of the 130 billion previously planned.

20.04.2009
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Don't get old, don't get sick, don't breathe...

Scientists significantly reduced the level of the VHL-1 signaling protein and found that this not only increased the resistance of worms to hypoxia (which they tried to achieve), but also significantly slowed the aging of nematodes.

20.04.2009
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Wheelchair – 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.

29.01.2009
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Prevention of the consequences of smoking

CDDO-imidazole effectively prevented respiratory tract damage in "smoking" mice. The results obtained will allow us to begin studying the effectiveness and safety of its use for the prevention of lung diseases in humans.

24.12.2008
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$25,000,000 for stem cells

The Eli and Edith Broad Foundation has donated $25 million to the University of California, San Francisco to create a new stem cell research center.

19.12.2008
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Goodbye, BCG?

The first Russian TB vaccine may appear in 2019. The second stage of clinical trials is planned this year.

15.02.2018
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Rusnano asks scammers not to worry

The project selection system created in the Rusnano state Corporation will not allow fraudsters to "fall for public funds with their adventurous ideas," Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said at the International Forum on Nanotechnology.

04.12.2008
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Chelate complexes for cancer diagnosis

Russian scientists have created a radiopharmaceutical for the accurate diagnosis of oncological diseases, labeled with the technetium-99 isotope.

25.05.2017
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Virtual Ambulance

It is planned to create similar virtual simulators for obstetricians, physiotherapists and other medical specialists.

29.10.2008
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Breasts for 800 thousand

15 years after the preventive operation to remove the mammary glands, it turned out that the gene analysis was erroneous. Now the patient is demanding financial compensation

13.12.2016
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The history of one liver

8 months after the transplant, the donor married the recipient. May they live happily ever after with one liver for two :)

28.10.2016