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Genetic engineering

Genetic engineering against HIV

The new vaccination method quickly generates antibodies against different HIV strains and helps prevent infection.

20.11.2020
Prolonging youth

Rejuvenation with oxygen

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can stop the aging of blood cells in healthy elderly people and reverse this process.

20.11.2020
Nanotechnology

CRISPR against Cancer

Cas9 molecular scissors cut the DNA of cancer cells, thereby neutralizing them and permanently preventing replication.

20.11.2020
Other life sciences

How Melatonin Works

The mechanism of melatonin was studied using the example of C.elegans worms. The authors believe that melatonin acts in a similar way in humans.

20.11.2020
Nanotechnology

Bait for metastases

The work is based on the ability to attach drugs to red blood cells, which become almost ideal carriers.

20.11.2020
Nanotechnology

Nanocolloid Patch

The gelatin and cellulose material is able to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria and accelerate the healing process of wounds.

20.11.2020
Biomedicine

Cancer and vitamin D

Taking vitamin D reduces the risk of developing metastatic cancer by 17%, and among people with a normal body mass index – by 38%.

19.11.2020
Genetics

How viruses search for new hosts

Scientists have discovered a so-called overlapping gene in the coronavirus genome, which may be responsible for its interspecific spread.

19.11.2020
Biomedicine

Kill in the bud

Antibody therapy before beta-amyloid begins to form aggregations can significantly reduce the number of plaques at a later age.

19.11.2020
Biomedicine

Coronavirus and smoking

Researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles have shown exactly how smoking contributes to a more severe course of Covid-19.

19.11.2020
Nanotechnology

Safe vectors

Light-activated liposomes deliver CRISPR gene therapy tools safer and more accurately than viruses.

18.11.2020
Other life sciences

Implant with lactobacilli

L. casei biofilm applied to a titanium implant blocks the spread of harmful bacteria and stimulates bone growth at the healing border.

18.11.2020
Biomedicine

A part is better than a whole

Antibody fragment therapy works at a late stage of Alzheimer's disease and is directed against two proteins whose aggregates kill neurons.

18.11.2020
Nanotechnology

Titanium Nickelide implants

The properties of the new material are comparable to how the bone tissues of the human body behave under physiological loads.

18.11.2020
Genetic engineering

Regeneration of neurons in vivo

The first study on non-human primates showed the promise of gene therapy for the treatment of stroke.

17.11.2020
Biomedicine

Moderna has become a leader

Promising preliminary results of the third phase of trials of the mRNA-1273 drug created by Moderna have been published.

17.11.2020
Biomedicine

From arthritis and covid

The rheumatoid arthritis drug reduced COVID-19 mortality by 71% compared to standard treatment.

17.11.2020
Biomedicine

Ferroptosis against cancer

The effectiveness of antitumor therapy increases with the activation of a newly discovered mechanism of cell death – ferroptosis.

17.11.2020