Life Sciences

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Cellular technologies

For new knees – to Munich

The results achieved to date allow us to talk about a real sensation and a breakthrough in the prevention and treatment of arthritis of the joints, especially the knees.

24.03.2008
Bioethics

Body Parts

The legalization of organ trafficking also threatens serious problems that exist today on the black market: paid donors are primarily representatives of social groups who do not have access to quality medicine and may be carriers of dangerous infections.

21.03.2008
Genetic engineering

Cigarettes pretended to be useful

The Berley variety, namely, it was modified by agronomists, refers to "light", used exclusively for cigarettes. The interest in it is easily explained: more than 75% of all Burley plantations are located in the states of North Carolina and Kentucky, whose scientists formed a creative alliance together with specialists from the "multinational" Philip Morris, which paid for the research.

19.03.2008
Bioethics

Action "Subscribe for life"

The initiators of the signature collection campaign aimed to achieve the inclusion of a highly aggressive form of breast cancer (with hyperexpression by HER-2 factor) in the federal program "Seven Nosologies".

18.03.2008
Nanotechnology

Nanometrics for a living cell

According to experts, the new research method – single–molecular spectroscopy - promises unprecedented prospects for studying processes at the level of individual molecules, including in a living cell.

18.03.2008
Other life sciences

Recent data about a person

Another 25 genes that affect life expectancy, a neurophysiological mechanism for assessing financial and other risks, a method for assessing the state of mitochondria in vivo and other life sciences news in general and about human life in particular.

17.03.2008
Nanotechnology

Micro-needles that make life easier

The proposed method combines the effectiveness of injection and the painlessness of the patch. Hundreds of microscopic polymer needles after injection into the skin quickly dissolve, and the drug contained in them diffuses into the skin.

17.03.2008
Genetic engineering

About the great benefits of GMOs

How and what scientists who receive GM organisms do is a mystery that is shrouded in darkness for most people. Using this, the science of "genetic engineering", as well as the science of "ecology" or "theory of evolution", was politicized.

14.03.2008
Biomedicine

Personalized medicine

In the medical community, personalized medicine is considered either as a fundamentally new approach to medical practice, or as a continuation of the traditional principle of "treating not the disease, but the patient."

14.03.2008
Biomedicine

Nuclear Metastasis switch

Scientists were able to stop the spread of breast cancer metastases and even return cancer cells to their original appearance by "turning off" the gene of one of the nuclear proteins.

13.03.2008
New in Gerontology

Why are the old women alive

Scientists have found strong evidence against the "grandmother hypothesis", which explains why women continue to live after menopause. The "hypothesis of motherhood", which explains both long life and menopause itself, received support.

13.03.2008
Bioethics

Britons will be allowed to use artificial sperm

A number of ministers intend to support amendments to the bill that will allow the use of artificially created gametes - sperm and egg - to induce pregnancy by in vitro fertilization

13.03.2008
Nanotechnology

Nanobrain for nanorobots

Scientists and doctors pin high hopes on hypothetical (so far) nanorobots. But one of the key issues here is the management of such tiny molecular machines. Simply put, nanorobots need "nanobrains".

13.03.2008
Nanotechnology

Getting rid of banana technologies

Is it possible to turn nanotechnology into nanotechnology – a science and a field of knowledge with clearly defined goals and the subject of research?

12.03.2008
Biomedicine

Rapidly changing oncology

Modern drugs for the treatment of oncological diseases have fundamental differences from those that appeared on the market in the 1970s.

12.03.2008