Polymer cell imitates a living one
Dutch researchers have produced an artificial eukaryotic cell containing artificial organelles and biochemical reactions similar to those occurring in the cells of living organisms.
22.01.2014Dutch researchers have produced an artificial eukaryotic cell containing artificial organelles and biochemical reactions similar to those occurring in the cells of living organisms.
22.01.2014American researchers have applied the piezoelectric effect to obtain energy from heart contractions. It seems that the issue of feeding pacemakers is close to its final solution.
22.01.2014The seminar will explore the main approaches to obtaining biological data, including epigenetic profiling, ChIP-seq, RNA sequencing, gene expression analysis, exomic sequencing and metabolic profiling.
21.01.2014Suppression of the activity of one of the proteins causes the normally non-replicating beta cells, obtained even from old donors, to divide.
21.01.2014Because of transgenic beetles, coffee becomes more expensive, while they themselves do not starve, eating coffee for about half a billion dollars a year for free. Sometimes leading to ruin, and maybe to suicide of local farmers.
21.01.2014How far is Google going to go in medicine? What are his craziest projects? Is it possible to implement them in practice?
21.01.2014Modification of natural acyldepsipeptides that destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria using a mechanism different from the action of all known antibacterial drugs has increased their effectiveness tens and hundreds of times.
21.01.2014The winners of the fourth competition for grants from the Government of the Russian Federation for state support of scientific research conducted under the leadership of leading scientists have been announced.
21.01.2014Levada Center compared the change in the attitude of Russians to the problems of life and death for the period from 2007 to 2013.
21.01.2014Recent discoveries of scientists indicate that a certain way selected nutrition can, at least partially change the course of the biological clock of the body and slow down its aging.
20.01.2014Humanity is threatened by the risk of a future without antibiotics – a world in which life expectancy will rapidly decline due to mortality from diseases that are currently easily curable.
20.01.2014For example, among the surveyed students of Turkish universities, 16% believe that HIV infection and AIDS are a punishment for sins, 8% - that proper nutrition and sports will protect them from the virus, and 9% – that strong and passionate love is stronger than the disease.
20.01.2014Several recent scientific publications have severely undermined our hopes for eternal life.
20.01.2014The mitochondrial transfer carried out by mesenchymal stem cells with the help of the Miro1 protein promotes the restoration of the pulmonary epithelium in a mouse model of allergic inflammation of the respiratory tract.
20.01.2014Scientists from the University of California at San Diego have identified a receptor for one of the key genes and a signaling pathway important for maintaining the undifferentiated state of human embryonic stem cells.
20.01.2014So far , the explanation of the phenomenon of alternative telomere elongation has been reduced to the thesis: cancer cells can repair long, albeit "sloppy" looking, telomeres without telomerase. But exactly how this is done remained unclear.
20.01.2014Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has approved the forecast of scientific and technological development of Russia until 2030.
20.01.2014According to the head of the next study, "the results obtained allow us to reasonably assert that the theory underlying the blood type diet is false."
17.01.2014With the help of gene therapy, scientists from the University of Oxford were able to partially restore vision to six more patients with a hereditary progressive form of blindness – choroideremia.
17.01.2014The new method allows you to find out with a minimum amount of material which proteins are synthesized by malignant tumor cells, and it can be found out in much more detail than traditional methods allow.
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