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Biomedicine

Not just honey

Melittin, the active component of bee venom, can cause one hundred percent death of cancer cells with minimal impact on healthy ones.

03.09.2020
Cellular technologies

Farms for lymphocytes

Hydrogel media created using a 3D printer mimic the lymph nodes in which T cells multiply.

02.09.2020
Prolonging youth

Another geroprotector

Alpha-ketoglutaric acid helped the mice avoid age-related diseases and severe old age and extended their life by about 10%.

02.09.2020
Genetics

Almost no difference

The coronavirus is quite conservative, and its variants should be equally recognized by the vaccines being developed.

02.09.2020
Your health

Diabetes: heredity or BMI?

Body mass index is a much more powerful risk factor for diabetes than genetic predisposition.

02.09.2020
Other life sciences

Running away from stress

Mice that were allowed to run in the wheel after stress became calmer due to increased synthesis of the neuropeptide galanin.

02.09.2020
Other life sciences

Viral weakening of the placenta

Immunologists have found out how the Zika virus penetrates to the embryo through the placenta. Specially provoked inflammations help him in this.

01.09.2020
Biomedicine

Healing Pain

Activation of pain receptors using imiquimod, a substance that triggers inflammation, accelerated wound healing in mice.

01.09.2020
Note to the businessman

Jump into the last car

If you haven't had time to invest in one of the companies developing the coronavirus vaccine, it's not too late to do it now.

01.09.2020
Other life sciences

Host versus Graft

The recipient's tissue T cells may play an unexpected role in the graft-versus-host reaction.

31.08.2020
Nanotechnology

Film in the intestine

A synthetic coating of the small intestine can deliver medications or improve digestion.

31.08.2020
Biomedicine

Prognosis of schizophrenia risk

Protein markers predict the risk of developing psychotic disorders several years before the first serious attacks with an accuracy of 93%.

31.08.2020
Cellular technologies

A breath of salvation

Scientists from China have proposed to treat a severe form of coronavirus pneumonia by inhalation of exosomes of mesenchymal stem cells of adipose tissue.

31.08.2020
Other life sciences

The new neurochip from Neuralink

The improved implant was introduced to experimental pigs, showing how the technology allows reading data from the brain in real time.

31.08.2020
Other life sciences

Rejuvenate before the transfer

Anti-aging drugs can "revive" the organs of old donors and increase the availability of transplants.

28.08.2020
Genetic engineering

Brown from white

Brown fat cells created from white fat cells can treat metabolic diseases.

28.08.2020
Genetics

Diabetes: new player

According to a study by Japanese scientists, a key role in regulating glucose levels is played by a protein called CNOT3.

28.08.2020
Biomedicine

New blood, new hope

Transfusion of "healthy" blood may protect the brain from the effects of an ischemic stroke.

27.08.2020