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A woman with a donor uterus is expecting her second child

Patients who have undergone uterine transplantation are given the opportunity to carry two children, after which it is assumed that the organ will be removed – this will save women from taking immunosuppressants.

21.06.2016
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Until the leg grows…

It is possible that the micro-RNA molecules that are responsible for the regeneration of the lizard's tail will help a person restore cartilage, muscles and spine in the future.

12.05.2016
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A small pharmaceutical factory

The refrigerator-sized device is capable of producing medicines from prepared solutions or suspensions.

05.04.2016
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A new approach to the gene therapy of type 1 diabetes

Some of the endocrine cells of the gastrointestinal tract are potentially ideal target cells for gene therapy of diabetes, and the introduction of the insulin gene through the intestine is absolutely non-invasive and avoids many disadvantages of existing approaches.

02.10.2008
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"Acidic" stem cells: another fiasco

Attempts to repeat sensational experiments on the creation of stem cells from ordinary ones under the influence of acid (the so-called STAP cells) were unsuccessful.

18.12.2014
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HIV in Russia

In Russia, there are 463 HIV-infected people for every 100,000 population. Today, less than a third of HIV-infected Russians receive antiretroviral therapy.

13.05.2014
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Aging in humans and fruit flies: another common gene

Scientists from Oxford and the Open University have identified a gene in the genome of fruit flies that makes these insects a convenient model for studying human aging processes at the cellular, genetic and biochemical levels.

14.05.2008
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"DNA chromosome", or whatever you call the ship…

"I do not know what it is, but, in my opinion, this drawing looks like images of a cluster of sheep. I think this is an original, but a little strange picture," said one of the interviewed residents of Vladivostok.

07.06.2013
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The boy and his atom

The frames of the video lasting a little more than a minute were "drawn" by IBM specialists from individual CO molecules (they were called atoms "for simplicity"), which moved along a copper substrate using a scanning tunneling microscope.

14.05.2013
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Look at your drunken face in 10 years

Taking a picture on a tablet, using the Drinking Mirror program, you can see how your appearance will change after ten years of regular consumption of a certain amount of alcoholic beverages.

19.04.2013
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Vortex technologies in Skolkovo

The Center of Vortex Technologies from the Koltsovo Science city became a participant of Skolkovo with the project "Creation of software and hardware complexes based on vortex bioreactors for the preparative cultivation of stem and other autologous human cells".

21.01.2013
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Alligator blood is better than any antibiotics

The gene, called tobi, encodes the enzyme alpha-glucosidase, which converts stored glycogen into glucose. The consumption of a large amount of proteins increases, and carbohydrates – suppresses the activity of this gene.

10.04.2008
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A billion from angels

K.Fokin, President of the National Association of Business Angels of Russia: "Our common task is to make sure that the volume of investments in Russian companies from Russian angel investors in 3-5 years will amount to $ 1 billion."

21.05.2012
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Let's protect mice from AIDS!

Cuban scientists have announced the successful completion of trials of a new AIDS vaccine on mice.

06.03.2012
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The United Russians thought about the Orphans

The problem of orphan (rare) diseases and measures to improve medical care in this area became the main topic of a round table held by the State Duma Committee on Health Protection on Thursday, February 17.

21.02.2011