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DNA vaccines against cattle dermatitis

The advantages of such vaccination are obvious: for example, it will take 9 days to treat a cow, not 18, and the cost of a DNA vaccine is 300 rubles instead of 2100.

19.10.2016
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A sad record

Russia took the last place in the rating of the effectiveness of health systems. Brazil, Azerbaijan, Colombia and Jordan were also among the five worst.

29.09.2016
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Donor cells against macular degeneration

Japanese doctors are planning to start tissue transplantation operations from donor stem cells in 2017 for patients with severe retinal disease – macular degeneration

07.06.2016
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BCG vaccine against type 1 diabetes

The population of CD8 T-lymphocytes, responsible for the destruction of insulin-producing cells of the pancreas, in all cases dies under the action of a tumor necrosis factor agonist, while a similar population of cells of healthy people proliferates under these conditions.

01.10.2008
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A new genetically determined deadly disease

Gerontologists decided to equate aging with disease and include it in the new edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which is being released by WHO in 2018.

11.11.2015
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New antibiotics are urgently needed

Professor Laura Piddock expressed the hope that the article in the Lancet will become a "loud alarm bell for pharmaceutical companies" to develop antibiotics to which bacteria do not yet have resistance.

20.10.2015
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Did not survive the crisis

Yevgeny Andreev, an employee of the Center for Demographic Research of the Russian School of Economics, said that the statistics of mortality in Russia are sad, but perhaps will not affect life expectancy.

04.09.2015
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National Biobank in St. Petersburg?

The newly created biobank of St. Petersburg State University begins collecting DNA materials from people suffering from various diseases (from cardiac to neurodegenerative) for further research in the field of biomedicine.

05.03.2015
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Treating obesity with electricity

An implantable device that blocks the activity of the branches of the vagus nerve going to the stomach with the help of electrical impulses has demonstrated the first successes in clinical trials of a new method of treating obesity.

19.05.2008
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Open Day of the FBMF MIPT

The MIPT BioBusiness Incubator held an open day of the Faculty of Biological and Medical Physics (FBMF).

08.07.2013
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Gender selection

After learning that he is biologically a woman, the patient decided to remain a man and intends to take additional male hormones.

05.06.2013
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The causes of clouding of the lens begin to clear up

The technique of therapeutic cloning is quite complex in technical terms and ambiguous from an ethical point of view, but with its help it was possible to cure Parkinson's disease in mice. In the future, it may become an effective method of combating Parkinson's disease in humans.

24.03.2008
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Kashpirovsky is not a pest? I'm sorry!

The Savelovsky court of Moscow granted the claim of the psychotherapist Anatoly Kashpirovsky to the chief psychiatrist of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation V. Shamrey and the VGTRK TV company. Shamrey claimed that Kashpirovsky was harming a significant number of people and understood this.

15.06.2011
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Check the quality of sperm with your own hands

A test system for self-use will save time and money and improve the accuracy of diagnostics. In addition, the man will not have to donate sperm in the clinic, which is associated with obvious psychological discomfort.

18.02.2010
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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