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The Tooth Fairy's Castle

A British artist asks children to give her fallen baby teeth to create a monument to stem cells.

01.04.2011
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Will mice teach cows to milk cream?

Experiments with transgenic mice that have begun in the USA should help to find out what affects the fat content of milk.

11.06.2010
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Breast cancer risk: Is genetic testing useless?

The assessment of the probability of developing breast cancer based on long-known factors turned out to be correct in 58% of cases. The addition of the ten most common genetic risk factors to the model increased the accuracy of the forecast by less than 4%.

19.03.2010
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VEB will finance the construction of a pharmaceutical plant

The Bank participates in the financing of a project in the pharmaceutical industry. Medical equipment and pharmaceuticals were included in the list of industry priorities of the Bank's investment activities at the end of 2009.

21.01.2010
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Less methionine – longer life?

A decrease in the content of methionine in a high-calorie diet led to an increase in life expectancy without harm to reproductive functions.

03.12.2009
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Silicon oxide beads will help in the diagnosis of cancer

"Beads" of silicon oxide stick to the surface of normal and cancer cells in different ways. Although it is too early to talk about clinical application, this phenomenon can form the basis of more accurate methods of early diagnosis of cancer.

11.11.2009
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Embryonic stem lungs

The cells of the pulmonary epithelium obtained from embryonic stem cells can be used to treat severe lung diseases.

06.11.2009
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The secret of Asian longevity

According to Chinese researchers, their research will help shed light on the phenomenon of "Asian longevity". The results of their colleagues' work also confirm the more frequent occurrence of mitochondrial haplogroup D4 in Japanese over the age of 100 years.

22.09.2009
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Live Artificial Heart Valves

An artificial heart valve, if it is implanted in a child, is bad, in particular, because its size does not change as the patient grows. In the laboratory of Biotechnology and Artificial Organs of the Hanover Medical School, the operation to transplant a biotechnological heart valve to children of different ages was performed sixteen times.

10.06.2009
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Cord Blood Gemabank

Gemabank considers Ukraine a promising direction and, in addition to providing cord blood storage services, is going to actively cooperate with leading Ukrainian transplantologists to improve the quality of transplants.

04.06.2009
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Innovation is a terrible force!

At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the head of RUSNANO Corporation Anatoly Chubais will take part in an interactive session "The Power of Innovation: when will tomorrow come?".

04.06.2009
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The world's first transgenic puppies glow red

The first cloned puppy was born in 2005, and dogs have been cloned more than once since then, but now, before the transfer of the nucleus, the fibroblast culture was infected with a modified retrovirus with an embedded gene of the red fluorescent anemone protein. Five glowing dogs feel good and glow like Kremlin stars under an ultraviolet lamp.

24.04.2009
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Billions for science

The US National Science Foundation has published data on the funds for scientific research that American universities and colleges received in 2007.

19.03.2009
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The "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.

02.03.2009