Science and Health News

The Beckley/Sant Pau Research Programme, in collaboration with the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid, releases remarkable findings from their latest study investigating the potential of ayahuasca to promote neurogenesis: the development of new cells.

IRB Barcelona researchers discover that the loss of the protein Mitofusin 2 in the muscles of young mice speeds up aging and causes early sarcopenia, thus leading to the muscle quality of aged mice.

DNA molecules don’t just code our genetic instructions. They can also conduct electricity and self-assemble into well-defined shapes, making them potential candidates for building low-cost nanoelectronic devices.

MIT researchers have developed synthetic biological circuits that combine both analog (continuous) and digital (discrete) computation — allowing living cells to carry out complex processing operations, such as releasing a drug in response to low glucose levels.

Employees of the Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology and of the Republican Clinical Oncological Hospital will test female volunteers for their predisposition to breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

St. Petersburg State University has taken the third place in the QS University Rankings: Emerging Europe and Central Asia (EECA) made by the British company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and published on 14 June 2016.

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) is delighted to announce that it has today signed an agreement at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, to launch a project to create a Russian Centre for medical robots and develop their industrial production in China.

Penn Medicine Pre-Clinical Study Shows How Antibody, Carbohydrate Combination Could Apply to Range of Cancer Types