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Your health

Mammography does not reduce breast cancer mortality?

The latest study by scientists from Oxford may tip the scales in the direction of "mammo-skeptics" and force many British women to weigh the pros and cons even more carefully before going for a mammogram.

13.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Recipe for making kidneys

Anthony Atala, a world–renowned specialist in regenerative medicine, talks about the creation of a human mini-kidney, the development of cellular biomedical technologies and prospects for cooperation with Russian scientists.

13.06.2013
Other life sciences

The reward found the hero after tens of thousands of years

One of the laureates of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology is the director of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the SB RAS, Academician Anatoly Derevyanko, one of the authors of the discovery of the Denisov man.

13.06.2013
Various

"Poor" German pensioners

In fact, the real poor among German pensioners are about 2%. They receive additional social assistance from the state. Basically, this age group is better organized than the youth.

13.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Stress-resistant pluripotent stem cells from adipose tissue

Scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles have isolated from human adipose tissue a population of pluripotent stem cells resistant to cellular stress, capable of differentiating into almost any type of body cells without genetic modification.

11.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Collagen blood vessels

During preclinical tests, such artificial veins performed much better than existing synthetic and animal analogues.

10.06.2013
Genetic engineering

DNA on the conveyor

The process of producing DNA strands several hundred bases long using genetically modified microorganisms is much cheaper and more accurate than existing methods.

10.06.2013
Genetic engineering

The canaries suggested a way to restore neurons

"The information we needed to understand how to achieve the formation of new neurons in the adult brain tissue was essentially given to us by our work with canaries," says the head of the work.

10.06.2013
Nanotechnology

Nanocontraception

If such a method of male contraception is safe for a person, gold nanorods can become an alternative to vasectomy.

10.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Cartilage from stem cells: a new recipe

Bioengineers are actively looking for innovative ways to grow new cartilage from the patient's own stem cells, and thanks to a new study by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, this treatment method has become a step closer to clinical practice.

07.06.2013
Various

Two news about cancer: the bad one first…

The number of UK residents who will get cancer during their lifetime will make up almost half of the country's population by 2020, but the likelihood of a fatal outcome in cancer patients will decrease.

07.06.2013
Cellular technologies

iPSCs were turned into blood cells

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine have managed to differentiate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) into erythrocytes and platelets.

07.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Release the cells from the cage!

The law on the circulation of biomedical cell products will allow large-scale clinical trials of the most promising developments to begin. Centers for the development of cellular technologies and regenerative medicine are expected to open in the near future.

07.06.2013
Other life sciences

At what rate are nerve cells restored?

Counting of neurons with carbon-14 embedded in DNA in the period from 1945 to 1963, when countries conducted nuclear tests on earth, showed that up to 700 new neurons appear in the hippocampus in adults per day

07.06.2013
Various

Get it and sign it

In Spain, they came up with the idea of sending dog excrement to their owners. As a result of the campaign launched in early 2013, the amount of dog waste in the settlement decreased by 70%

06.06.2013
Cloning

Cloning a mammoth: an optimist's opinion

After the recent discovery of the carcass of an adult female mammoth, the extinct animal may still be cloned. Semyon Grigoriev, head of the Mammoth Museum, talks about the prospects of such a project.

06.06.2013
Genetics

DNA prints: to take or not to take?

The idea of DNA as a universal bioidentifier is not to everyone's liking. Alarmists warn: let the state and corporations dig into your genes – and a society like "Gattaca" will be built by itself.

06.06.2013