hello and welcome to technology update regardless of where you are and whether you live in moscow or anywhere else in the world we all might there one holiday which we're all hoping for good health to keep us in tip top shape the tech team and i have struck out to find the latest improvements in russian medical science. showing off some of the newest gadgets and research was the russian health care. everything from good health habits to advanced lifesaving treatments. biggest medical breakthrough away from the bright lights of the capital.

the center for cardiovascular surgery recently announced its. placement surgery with a brand new full. history with. technology it's not surprising that they were at the heart. of the best performance they're less than ideal if the patient is relatively young . as a result mechanical valves are often the way to go and that is the latest which is just the most recent evolution of these men made. the first mechanic. in one thousand fifty two. limitations. they prove that synthetic materials. improved in the one nine hundred sixty s. with the advent of the so-called. which could be implanted inside the heart itself

with previous models later in the decade disc made their debut. leaflet valves at the scene but these still work perfect. whatever the position of leaflets inside the ring they create some amount of resistance. the pressure on the heart is generally as high as thirty forty or even fifty millimeters of mercury we figured out that it would be impossible to remove this obstacle as long as the leaflets were in the middle of the blood flow so we decided to place them outside the ring. for that the doctors turned to med in russia's premier hard valve maker those coming off the lines here are made of what's called monolithic pure a little carbon the materials obtained from ordinary natural gas as it's burned at

temperatures up to fifteen hundred degrees celsius and special ovens carbon collects on the walls of the reactor that's been collected and passed on for further reworking. the main difference is that elsewhere pirelli to carbon is based on a graphic foundation. that is a result. structure. when the show isn't damaged. but the whole thing falls apart whenever there's a tiny crack. material is better protected against such problems. getting that pure limit carbon they need is only the first step in the process before these black into rings can become potentially life saving valves they must be cut and chiseled into the right shape. thank you in the fact these are alternately going to be implanted inside someone's heart the repeatedly long the

wait for pinpoint accuracy. however unlike many other valves out there many inches are made entirely out of pure little carbon. that means that not only is the ring but the leaflets are also made from super strong material to get the flap shaped just right down using special equipment and that goes on to be checked and cleaned once again from this point the two main components. put together in an absolutely room over the years the company has sold tens of thousands of their previous models in more than twenty five countries but thanks to their work with the. above. by creating a totally unobstructed channel through the middle they improve the performance of biological valves with a long life and reliability of mechanical one. for the whole shape is the same as that human body which enables even laminar flow without any water.

to fully matches the functions. and we've just started clinical trials which we intend to run for a year and then start mass production sales. so far only a handful of the brand new house have been placed in the hands of capable surgeons when they do eventually hit the market will likely be plenty of demand in two thousand and eleven there were some twenty five thousand placements surgeries in russia alone and to avoid becoming another of those statistics you should do as i say not as i do for like this may be tasty but in excess it can lead to any number of health problems all the starch and sugar can wreak havoc on your teeth and might just land you under dental surgeons operating lights but they knew even that doesn't have to be as nail biting as it used to be for many people there is nothing more stressful than a visit to the doctor but many are turning to new technology to soothe their

patients nerves more invasive surgeries more and more dentists are now using lasers to make the necessary cuts these are often perfect for surgery in the mouth because as it slices the laser caught arises in. continuously. have been around for a while but this one being used just outside of moscow is of a new breed. which hit the market earlier in two thousand and twelve the. thermal optic surgery based on the nano carbonized zation of light guides feedback and a high power laser allows us to significantly reduce the time it takes to perform a surgery. but this means tissues consume less energy which in turn reduces the risk of causing thermal damage to the tissues. this is especially important in operations on the oral mucosa since these tissues are very fine and delicate your.

response will show that high tech slicer is a global partnership that's based on technology pioneered here in st petersburg the streets of the northern capital and winter months the laser related tech of some of the city's scientists is red hot. the principle that underlies many laser scalpels dates back to the nine hundred eighty s. and has its roots at the st petersburg state university of information technology mechanics and objects despite what many people think the laser scalpels don't make incisions with the laser beam per se but instead in point generated heat to do the cutting previously this was a rather imprecise science the laser base just created a fixed output the temperature could and did vary throughout the course of an operation based on the know how here the st petersburg institute. which they feel is head and shoulders above the competition. in its feedback system controlled the temperature of the being operated on.

depending on the required temperature. here in st petersburg the testing out different fiber to configure ration is to see which give the most ideal performance for certain tasks materials can be used in the tips but depending on how much of the laser light they absorb the varying temperatures. current cutting edge research takes place in st petersburg through photonics the company's production is located all the way across the globe. just outside of boston massachusetts in the united states where the truly international team applies the research and development carried out by their russian partners this allows these innovators to lean on the strengths of the individual companies. photonics is primarily responsible for innovation research development and commercialisation of the product in the russian federation in dental photonics is responsible for manufacturing and commercialization in international markets and we think that this is

a very. successful the project because it allows us to. maximize the strengths of each party's in their respective graphic locales and also leverage their capital resources most efficiently here in the u.s. the lasers are marketed as. the mother you see here is designed for soft tissue surgery but the company is currently working on a new fiber designed especially for cutting through hard to. the unique designs dentist can simply swap out the soft tissue scalpel for a different one in theory that means dental surgeons board have to invest and then entirely separate console for different purposes. devices produced by a closest competitors in terms of power are much larger and much more complicated than the ones that we made some competitors make. similarly sized devices but they're much less powerful than ours so our devices are quite well placed in the

market with circle their compact easy to assemble highly efficient and can accurately control the optical power output. as you can see here the laser scalpel is easily able to pierce a piece of wood with only three pulses it can slice through about fifty millimeters the resulting hole is smaller and more accurate than is possible with other surgical drills in theory such super fast pulsating power could be used for pain this cavity drilling. in russia it was exhibited at the moscow dental show which was held this year all of the devices they were produced intended for sale in the russian market were completely sold out over the course of the two days of the show. here in russia the company and its technology is getting recognition all around and not just from buyers despite having only been set up a few years ago platonic has been

a resident of skolkovo which is essentially a big tech idea clearing house the status and advantages of joining that club will only help push the company and its state of the art lasers into the future. is. to eat. more like. iraq. by the rebels and the primary.

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and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. major university is a variable treasure trove of knowledge in the form of both respected professors and millions upon millions of books however there is just not enough time in the day or

our lives to get through them all but thanks to the labor of one tireless academic here that could all be changing. to science and technology it's hard to find as prolific of an institution as moscow state university the hollowed halls here have been some of the globe's greatest thinkers it was here back in the late one nine hundred sixty s. i. teamed up with if you move lieberman to prove the existence of the electric bill . the difference across mitochondrial membranes that was a confirmation needed to help earn a british scientist the nobel prize perhaps more importantly that discovery could unlock the fountain of youth for us. to understand we have to look inside each individual cell among the various organelles the most important for our purposes is the mitochondria as these powerful energy for the reactive oxygen species are also generated the build up of these so called mitochondria can damage already named d.n.a.

and protein which is thought to be largely responsible. and his team hypothesized that this could be cut down. with the possibly. doing so allows mitochondria interior to attract the. combination. membrane which would otherwise. get to where they are needed in the wake of. research such positive ion delivery vehicles. since that time the topic has become a bit of a family affair for the good doctor getting involved now although the underlying idea originated back and it wasn't put into practice until the one nine hundred ninety s. . we were in the. principal. fact it was michael moore if. he used cowen. occident

immediately told him that it wasn't a very good choice in terms of the anti-oxidant but by then he already made a lot of progress with. just threw his hands up and told me that his investors wouldn't forgive him if he changed the substance halfway through and said they were going to give it a shot. it takes ten to fifteen years to introduce a new medicine unfortunately a lot of that time was lost in my opinion however no one can deny him the honor of being the first to try out our idea. since at first for an attempt to bombard mitochondria with antioxidants dr school cho and other moscow state university researchers have been hard at work coming up with an antioxidant and delivery system pair that shows better results. from mike murphy who tried vitamin e. and co in q school in his life have hitched their wagon to

a substance well accustomed to dealing with the build up of lots of oxygen plant chloroplasts. the thought being that since our green growing friends produce large amounts of oxygen for their own antioxidants must be up to the task of keeping dangerous reactive oxygen species to a minimum. the resulting compound which they call s k q is reported to be hundreds of times more effective than any of the other variations previously. kill all this is based on the prep is issued but it's programmed in our genetic makeup to slowly but surely kill off our cells and in the end. disrupt that program and you might just. more than that but you know medicine succeed in extending human life in the wood or more importantly in the onset of aging at least that's what it doesn't anymore and we're cells are so there is a good chance but it's not a certain effect yet so as

a scientist i am obliged to have my doubts but we're working on is rather a hypothesis but we have to try and we definitely will. difficult to test for signs of aging directly researchers do so by monitoring changes in behavior over time younger healthier rats actually explore their surroundings but as they get older they tend to explore less. camp out in the. preliminary tests positive results in arresting this change in trials are still needed before we see an overarching fountain of youth drug like a pill or injection in his team have decided to take it step by step how much we were really lucky to have discovered that one can use this substance to make eyedrops so that it is efficient enough to administer it typically. much easier path to the market. in order to commercialize the technology a company called. the medicine is only dropped into the potential adverse side effects are much smaller than with something like a tablet or

a little. of the traditional tests on animals and then human clinical trials had to be passed to receive the go ahead from russian health regulators earlier in two thousand and twelve and at the moment they're working on having it approved by western health agencies. the resulting eyedrops are targeted at relieving chronic dry eyes this interim can lead to increasingly impaired vision and in some cases eventually blindness but these russian made drops are able to do much more than dry eyes. there are techniques to find out how many says have died as a result of. the. death. totally different picture when used extensively they greatly decrease the number of tissue sections affected by potosi. like any true scientist dr. as the first guinea pig even before he got the russian regulatory green light in my opinion the results pretty much speak for themselves.

i'm very short sighted i started suffering from cataracts and i've had for years. as a result of using the eye drops the cataract disappeared my myopia dropped from minus seven down. three point five diopters. reduced. with russian regulatory approval in hand though. but surely started getting their eyedrops to market their tinting to go without linking up with a distributor at present they've already sold twenty five thousand bottles to various pharmacies. innovators this is just the first step in fact. to grow into a large pharmaceutical company with a wide range of products. will have one thing in common.

this i believe is in the. direction. development. research and production. company. and pushes ahead with the next generation of. medication. one hundred grams of. each gram of the. big medical innovation the city of public of touch with its many innovation friendly centers like the park here bragging rights as well. many

young startups is one of the operation simulators from a dynamic local company called. blood free operation. diagrams are one thing how an operation is done and then having a go at it yourself is the best way to learn. and even young doctors can't. patients these robotic simulators are. the company's ever improving. different simulators ideal for practicing minimally invasive surgeries at the institutes and clinics the technology the difference is evident. we always keep a record of mistakes thanks to the video we are able to follow. her actions it also shows the mistakes. are possible impact on a given surgery this exercise feels very true to life. with manipulating.

receiving feedback including tissue resistance all of this enables the students to feel like a real surgeon in action. but the human processing complex is home to the inspiration behind those trainers the so-called technology resident companies get tax breaks and other business friendly incentives to spur on the development of new ideas and projects before they came out with the. different kind of. truck simulators for russian government. drivers training before hitting the road working hand in hand with the company. trucks for the russian military and emergency services ministry. with hydraulic systems the programming code needed to recreate. in experience.

according to company. a much greater range of motion and more precisely replicates how. various road conditions and experience. but after a few laps around the training ground even. perform a few tricky maneuvers. but military and truck drivers aren't the only ones that could benefit from a little more practice behind a fictional wheel before getting out there where that might also develop ambulance simulators these kid out transporters both drivers. to practice in close to real life conditions it will contain everything one would find in an ambulance rushing to and fro on the street however for the forward thinking execs that i dos getting the patient there is only half the battle. only covers one branch of medicine. delivering a patient from the starting point to the facility where he can be given medical

assistance so the simulator practice. transporting the patient while keeping him alive and handing him over to other doctors from that point on a different branch of medicine or surgery. the next logical step was to make training manikin geared towards the other aspects of medicine. the company is working on creating whole training complexes that will cover the more than one hundred different medical branches needed for russia's health care system. and having a look and feel just right is of utmost importance the more realistic the training the more useful it is when the time comes to put that knowledge to use. with that in mind the company's production facility designers are constantly working to improve them in addition to realistic structures they've also been working on a skin like covering that will mimic the feel of cutting through real life.

still rather early days for i don't. dance as well as becoming more lifelike. present production ranges from simple c.p.r. training mannequins to complex robots. skilled computer programming is the real brains of the operation. talented team of creed. programmers simulated on the inside would be more or less useless. every one of their mannequin models is built for a concrete order to be a specific section or the whole body all together. engineers can replicate the bodies various systems and. possible to real life compressors are used to mimic breathing. pumps through fluids for cardiovascular. systems and servo motors for joint movement and sensors react to the doctor's actions. programmers to recreate just about any problem imaginable. in the

world there are four major companies in the business of making medical simulators. naturally each manufacturer does their best to stand out. about this kind of competition because we believe that it benefits the end consumer the more competing companies there are. the better it is for the medical equipment market. so we feel that our devices are better than foreign ones in a number of ways by new companies first and they have been tailored specifically for the russian health care system and i knew that secondly we have introduced a new concept you know that with a number of ports which is unique to our company seared with a full scale model of an operating room together with a robot this is something our foreign competitors have yet to emulate macclassic and could in theory but i don't isn't stopping there they recently got big backing

for a project to build one of the largest innovative medical complexes in russia for now the plans are only on paper but they soon hope to break ground on a center that would bring many of the globe's leading institutions to. so with ideas and medical advances you've seen today we hope that your next visit to the doctor and this holiday season will be very merry indeed that will do it for this edition of technology update we'll see you next time so then enjoy the ride.

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