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Will your own neurons help with Parkinson's disease?

Autologous transplantation of neurons to replace damaged cells in certain areas of the brain of monkeys with simulated Parkinson's disease provides partial restoration of subcortical structures and dopamine synthesis.

Gene delivery to stem cells: nanoparticles instead of viral vectors?

Nanoparticles as a means of delivering additional genes may prove to be an effective means to improve the results of cell therapy.

101 years, 100 miles per hour

American Virgil Coffman, who turned 101, got behind the wheel of a brand new supercar.

The innovative economy is growing, especially in the field of biomedicine

Companies engaged in developments in the field of biotechnology and medicine received the most investments ($1.5 billion, 41%). Software developers are in second place in terms of the number of funds raised. But this is in the USA...

Neurons from embryonic stem cells are ready for transplantation

During transplantation to newborn mice, committed (differentiating in a certain direction) neural progenitor cells created from embryonic stem cells turned into working neurons and successfully integrated into the structures of the cerebral cortex and olfactory bulb. The formation of tumors was not recorded at the same time.

Has the diet made a human out of a mouse?

Bioprinting in orbit

Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, previously trained to work with a bioprinter, began an experiment on printing living tissues on December 4.

Argus has earned

Cyber vision, according to experts, is one of the ways to give people deprived of this natural gift of nature to start living a normal life again.

Rapid growth and price appreciation are expected in the Russian pharmaceutical market

The pharmaceutical market, like the food market, is more protected from the crisis. The population will start saving on medicines last of all, but a decrease in consumer activity will certainly affect the market situation.

Caution: Weight loss pills!

The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis has suspended the sale of the popular anti-obesity drug Acomplia (rimonabant) in the European Union. In Russia, the drug is known as Zimulti.

New investments in Russian innovations

RVC will invest 4.5 billion rubles in three joint funds with Skolkovo. The first fund will invest in IT, the second in biomedicine, and the third in industrial technologies.

Doctors gave the woman her sight back without surgery

A 45-year-old woman turned to Balashikha Hospital with complaints of rapid loss of vision as a result of a domestic injury

The incidence of coronavirus in Russia has increased by more than 30% in a week

It is noted that an increase in the number of hospitalizations was recorded in 56 subjects of the Russian Federation, and the disease incidence itself is increasing in 72 regions

The incidence of COVID-19 in Russia rose by 20.1% over the week

Russia has seen a surge in the incidence of coronavirus infection. The number of hospitalizations increased by 14.3% compared to the previous week

Scientists have for the first time printed skin that grows like real skin

A new bioprinted skin created at Wakee Forest's Institute for Regenerative Medicine replicates the layers and thickness of human skin

Vitamin D deficiency increased the risk of death from cancer

In the case of vitamin D supplementation, the risk was lower

Opioid analgesia did not reduce the intensity of acute low back and neck pain

Researchers proved there was no significant reduction in the severity of acute low back and neck pain when opioid analgesics were added to standard treatment

Smart tissue detects muscle movement and vascular contraction

Researchers have developed a self-powered smart tissue that can perceive and measure body movements, from muscle flexion to the pulsation of veins

A vegan should be in jail!

A 12-year-old Scottish woman, put on a strict vegetarian diet by her parents, was hospitalized with a severe bone development disorder. Her spine is similar to the spine of an 80-year-old old woman. This is not the first case. For example, last year in the United States, a vegetarian couple was sentenced to life imprisonment for bringing their six-week-old child to starvation.

Artificial food dyes – protection against cancer?

This time, instead of a nudist show, Peta's management announced a prize of one million dollars for a group of scientists or a company that by June 30, 2012 will develop a method of making chicken meat "in vitro" (and so that the quality is like real!) and it will start selling it in at least ten US states (and not more expensive than usual!).