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Bioethics

Rehabilitate eugenics?

Thanks to the efforts of the Nazis, the reputation of eugenics has been so tarnished that the word itself continues to be abusive. Meanwhile, this science could save people from disease, suffering, and even death itself...

20.12.2010
Nanotechnology

Macroporous ferrogel squeezes medicines into a sore spot

The new material, called macroporous ferrogel, can be compressed up to 70 percent by a magnetic field. Reversible metered compression removes drugs or cells and proteins embedded in the gel from the gel.

16.12.2010
Bioethics

Save the embryo – kill the man!

The draft law "On Biomedical Cell Technologies" provides for a ban on the use of "laboratory embryo plantations" in which embryos are "disassembled into cells." Critics consider the project to be very incomplete.

15.12.2010
Healthy skepticism

Spiritual understanding of SCENAR therapy

"Scenar-phone" is a device capable of "using electrodes to provide individually dosed therapeutic effects on skin areas with pulsed currents, normalizing the impaired functions of organs and systems."

15.12.2010
Biomedicine

Binary drug for gene therapy

MGNC scientists are developing a gene therapy system in which both miRNAs that suppress the expression of unwanted genes and the surrounding "baskets" of DNA have a therapeutic effect.

14.12.2010
Cellular technologies

Beta cells from an intimate source

Insulin–producing cells were grown from spermatogonia - testicular stem cells. They did not have to be reprogrammed: during cultivation, the sperm progenitor cells themselves became pluripotent.

14.12.2010
Biomedicine

Putty for bones: on sale soon

A substance that is injected into a broken bone and restores its structure can completely displace metal structures and prostheses used in fractures.

14.12.2010
Biomedicine

How to mend the heart?

Worcester Polytechnic Institute researchers propose to mend damage to the heart and other organs with fibrin fibers seeded with stem cells.

14.12.2010
Cellular technologies

Human intestines from stem cells

The three-dimensional tissue grown from induced pluripotent stem cells performs all the functions of the normal human intestine, including the formation of intestinal stem cells.

13.12.2010
Cloning

How to get offspring from two individuals of the same sex?

By combining the genetic material of two male mice, scientists have obtained healthy offspring that do not carry a single gene obtained from a female. She became a surrogate mother in the full sense of the word.

13.12.2010
New in Gerontology

Free radicals and life extension: Get drunk on poison!

Nematodes with increased formation of free radicals, to the surprise of scientists, lived longer than ordinary ones. As well as worms that were fed a poisonous herbicide that kills plants by enhancing the synthesis of free radicals. Just please don't repeat the experiment on yourself!

10.12.2010
Prolonging youth

Another way to prolong life: to suppress the growth hormone activator

Mice in whose bodies (at an average age for this line) scientists disrupted the work of the hormone stimulating the synthesis of growth hormone, lived almost a quarter longer than the animals of the control group, and were more than 5 times less likely to get cancer.

10.12.2010
Cellular technologies

Nerve stem cells of the 999th sample

A new method of isolating a pure population of nerve stem cells promises significant progress in the treatment of diseases of the nervous system and spinal cord injuries.

09.12.2010
Other life sciences

From genomics to proteomics, metagenomics and beyond

Genomics are blueprints; proteomics are working molecular machines. And if we consider a person as a symbiotic superorganism, we will also have to do metagenomics – the study of genes (and proteins?) gut microbiota. But there is also metabolomics, and many others -omics…

08.12.2010
Cellular technologies

Induced pluripotent stem cells cured spinal cord injury

10 days after the transplantation of neurons grown from skin cells into the damaged cervical spinal cord, the monkey began to move its limbs, and six weeks later was able to walk independently.

08.12.2010