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Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for molecular machines

The prize will be awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa with the wording "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines".

Eye color can be determined by six single nucleotide polymorphisms

Researchers from the University named after Erasmus of Rotterdam found out that the color of human eyes (blue or brown) can be predicted by analyzing six different sections of the genome. At the same time, the prediction accuracy exceeds 90%.

Identical twins are not so identical

A register of bone marrow donors is being created on the basis of the R.M. Gorbacheva Institute of Pediatric Hematology and Transplantation of I.P. Pavlov St. Petersburg State Medical University.

Megamall for the little ones

A multifunctional medical mall for narrow-profile clinics is planned to be built on the territory of the Skolkovo medical cluster.

Official approval of gene therapy

We are talking about therapeutic angiogenesis, a method developed at the Institute of Human Stem Cells.

"In case of my death, I ask you to donate my organs"

Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a donor card during the opening of the XII symposium of the Polish Transplantation Society and urged Poles to do the same.

Parkinson's disease can be cured by therapeutic cloning

to suffer damage due to an unfavorable combination of circumstances that may not occur, and are not always available to control.

The old beta cell of the furrow will not spoil

Scientists from the Hebrew University have made an unexpected discovery: the processes of cellular aging in pancreatic tissues not only do not worsen, but, on the contrary, improve the quality of their work.

Meta-analysis shows the need for MRI in prostate cancer screening

A collaboration of European scientists conducted a meta-analysis and found that there is a need to include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in prostate cancer screening

Subcutaneous antibodies protected children from malaria with 77 percent efficacy

Scientists conclude that such chemoprophylaxis can be considered as an alternative to vaccines and other biological protection regimens against malaria

Patent for CRISPR-Cas9: to be continued

The victory of the Broad Institute in the fight for a patent for the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing method is not the end of the story. The University of California at Berkeley will undoubtedly continue to struggle.

More neurons – longer life

The average life expectancy of animals, including humans, depends on the number of neurons in the brain.

A dangerous symptom that occurs a couple years before aggressive cancer has been named

Patients notice dramatic weight loss without much effort about two years before they are diagnosed with the dangerous disease

Can't you wash the black melanocyte white?

Headband detects early signs of Alzheimer's disease in dreams

Researchers have found a way to assess the brain activity in sleep that characterizes the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease

According to the standard

The production standard for working with human embryonic stem cells has been published.

Low-calorie diet against senile sclerosis

Before starting the study and after three months of these diets, all volunteers completed standard verbal memory tests. It turned out that those who consumed low-calorie food had test scores improved by an average of 20 percent. No changes were observed in the other two groups.

Air pollution worsened students performance on math exams

School leavers performed worse on exams that involved thinking and memorization when the air in the immediate vicinity of the school was more polluted

Awards for geneticists

Russian geneticists received the A.A. Baev, A.O. Kovalevsky and N.K. Koltsov Prizes.

A new class of antibiotic has been discovered

In experimental studies, the antibiotic was effective against a carbapenem-resistant strain of A. baumannii (CRAB)