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Ultra-thin and ultra-sharp endoscope

The endoscope, whose thickness does not exceed the thickness of a human hair, has a resolution 4 times better than existing endoscopes.

27.03.2013
Grants and competitions

Competition for the creation of a "new generation condom"

To begin with, the winner of the contest will receive $ 100,000, and in case of successful implementation of the idea, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will invest up to a million dollars in the production of a new "product No. 2".

27.03.2013
Your health

A cold is dangerous for mental abilities

People with high levels of antibodies to viruses and pathogenic bacteria in the blood have a quarter increased risk of deterioration of memory and thinking abilities.

27.03.2013
Various

Summer is forever

The Supreme Court rejected the claim of several public organizations demanding the abolition of year-round summer time in Russia.

26.03.2013
Other life sciences

Electrodes made of liquid metal ink

A drawing applied to the patient's skin using liquid metal ink can make monitoring of cardiac activity much less painful and will allow doctors to observe a number of vital signs in real time.

26.03.2013
Cellular technologies

We will not be changing spare parts soon

It is naive to believe that in a year or two they will start printing organs, and the donor procurement service can be abolished. At the current rate of development of the industry, the shares of the first organs can be printed no earlier than by 2030.

26.03.2013
Biotechnologies - into life

Biotechnology opens up wide opportunities for business

The VII International Congress "Biotechnology: state and prospects of development" was held in Moscow. For four days, scientists, production workers, and entrepreneurs discussed what prospects this area of knowledge opens up for humanity. And they are, in fact, limitless.

26.03.2013
Your health

A new diagnosis will turn millions of people into mentally ill

The diagnosis, which appeared in the new edition of the Manual on the Diagnosis and Statistics of Mental Disorders, will turn millions of people who are worried about the symptoms of their somatic disease into mentally abnormal.

26.03.2013
New in Gerontology

Physical education does not save muscles from aging

Analysis of the protein and genetic profile of aging muscle tissue showed that exercise does not slow down the aging process, and 25% of people are generally unable to build muscle regardless of their persistence and severity of training.

26.03.2013
Biomedicine

Wound healing gel: from virtuality to reality

Initially, the drug Veti-Gel was developed under the working name Medi-Gel – as a therapeutic gel in the Mass Effect video game series. Now the creation of such a gel can become a reality – its prototype was developed by a student of the University of New York.

26.03.2013
Genetic engineering

Treatment of Down syndrome: the target was found, it remains to get into it

In mice with Down syndrome, in whose brains the human protein SNX27 was introduced by gene therapy, an increase in the number of glutamate receptors and normalization of brain functions were observed. However, the use of such a technique in relation to people is still far away.

26.03.2013
Other life sciences

Thinking is harmful

Thinking is actually harmful: researchers from the Gladstone Institute (USA) have found that DNA is damaged in active neurons – and the more active the nerve cells, the harder an individual thinks, the more it is damaged.

25.03.2013
Biomedicine

Give the body to repair

In a couple of decades, a person will be updated with the help of regenerative cellular and gene technologies, like a car that has got stuck in a car service station.

25.03.2013
Other life sciences

A warm liver is better than a cold one

The donor liver, placed, according to accepted standards, in a saline solution with a temperature of 4 degrees, can be stored for no more than 12 hours; in a new container that provides body temperature and blood supply to the organ – from 24 to 72.

25.03.2013
Grants and competitions

Postgraduate studies in Germany

Certified specialists in biology and bioengineering, bioinformatics, biophysics are invited to participate in the competition for admission to graduate school in Germany.

22.03.2013
Your health

Careful, statins!

High doses of potent drugs of the latest generation to lower cholesterol levels in the blood by a third increase the risk of acute kidney inflammation compared with less potent statins.

22.03.2013
Genetics

Parkinson's disease: are we treating or crippling?

Low expression of alpha-synuclein is associated with worse prognoses for the course of Parkinson's disease, which casts doubt on the efficacy and safety of new, considered promising, methods of treating this disease.

22.03.2013
Other life sciences

The more germs, the less diabetes

Countries with a low mortality rate from infections are characterized by an increased incidence of type 1 diabetes, which may be due to insufficient exposure to pathogens in the early stages of life for the full formation of the immune system.

22.03.2013