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Living nanoelectronics

The bionanoelectronic transistor will be useful in biological research, in the construction of medical bioelectronic implants and diagnostic systems, and maybe in computing machines of the future.

11.09.2009
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Put potential suicides on a needle?

Researchers from Mount Sinai Medical School in New York assigned a small group of patients with depression, prone to suicide, experimental treatment with intravenous injections of ketamine.

11.09.2009
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A quarter of a century of DNA "fingerprints"

The scientist, who proposed to identify a person by DNA by analogy with fingerprints, celebrated the 25th anniversary of his revolutionary discovery with a call to change the law governing DNA databases.

10.09.2009
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The maniac was found on DNA databases

The police raised 16,000 criminal cases related to sexual crimes and compared DNA samples of suspects with the national data bank, which contains information about the DNA of 6 million people.

09.09.2009
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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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Giant DNA Origami

All the crystal structures created so far from DNA were two-dimensional. The authors of the new work managed to turn flat triangles into three-dimensional structures up to 1 mm in size.

07.09.2009
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Gold Nanovaccines

Gold nanoparticles "cross-linked" with antigens can become the basis for a new generation of vaccines.

04.09.2009
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I eat what I want and lose weight

Knockout of the IKKE gene in mice not only prevents excess weight gain, even on a very fatty diet, but also protects them from obesity-related symptoms leading to the development of type 2 diabetes.

04.09.2009
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In Vitro fertilization: choose the best!

A new technique – comparative genomic hybridization – allows you to check eggs and embryos during in vitro fertilization, assess the condition of all chromosomes and select the most complete embryos from a chromosomal point of view.

03.09.2009
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Pfizer vandalized

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn will pay $2.3 billion for the illegal promotion of their drugs.

03.09.2009
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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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Nanotubes sniff out cocaine

Spanish researchers have linked specific antibodies to the main metabolite of cocaine, benzoylecgonine, to the surface of silver nanoparticles deposited on a matrix of carbon nanotubes.

02.09.2009