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Hormones for "dummies"
Biologist Olga Smirnova – about what hormones are, how they differ from other molecules of the body and how they are associated with rare diseases.
25.06.2020- English version
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What is ruining us
Of all the risk factors for premature death, scientists identified ten that were significantly associated with mortality during the six years of the study.
25.06.2020
Cellular technologies
Organoids and coronavirus
By examining organoids, scientists are trying to figure out how the virus moves in the body, which cells it infects and what damage it causes.
25.06.2020
Biomedicine
Diet for chemotherapy
A diet that simulates fasting enhances the effect of the initial stages of chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer.
25.06.2020
Genetic engineering
Peptides instead of antibodies
MIT specialists have applied computer modeling to develop a peptide that destroys the coronavirus.
25.06.2020
Nanotechnology
Virus Traps
Nanoparticles disguised as lung cells and macrophages neutralize the ability of SARS-CoV-2 to capture host cells and multiply.
23.06.2020
Biomedicine
Astrocyte protein will protect the heart
The MANF protein, a neurotrophic factor of mesencephalic astrocytes, plays a key role in improving survival after a heart attack.
23.06.2020
Genetics
Genetics and CFS
£3.2 million will be allocated for the most extensive study to identify a genetic predisposition to chronic fatigue syndrome.
23.06.2020
Other life sciences
Half a century before the first symptoms
Predisposition to type 2 diabetes mellitus can be assessed decades before diagnosis.
23.06.2020
Other life sciences
Cheap indicator
The new method will make it possible to determine the level of one of the indicators of a person's biological age using an inexpensive set of reagents.
23.06.2020
Biomedicine
Other life sciences
Laser against coronavirus
The FITZ of Fundamental and Translational Medicine will test the technique of photodynamic inactivation of viruses and bacteria.
22.06.2020
Biomedicine
Is victory impossible?
After 8 weeks, the level of antibodies decreases in the majority of coronavirus patients, especially in asymptomatic patients.
22.06.2020
Biomedicine
Protection against relapses
A new method of vaccination against incurable mantle cell lymphoma has passed the first two phases of clinical trials.
22.06.2020
Other life sciences
What are cytokines for?
How viruses get into the body, whether we can protect ourselves from them and how the high temperature helps us.
22.06.2020
Biomedicine
Instead of statins
Controlling the growth of intestinal bacteria can reduce the risk of atherosclerosis – but so far only in mice.
22.06.2020
Biomedicine
10 times more accurate
Advanced liquid biopsy for cancer detection can be ten times more sensitive than existing methods.
19.06.2020
Other life sciences
Trainable biohybrid neurons
The new device can exchange chemical signals with living neurons like synapses in a living organism.
19.06.2020
Genetic engineering
Monkeys with humanized brains
In primate embryos with the human ARHGAP11B gene, the neocortex was thicker and had a large number of furrows and folds.
19.06.2020
New in Gerontology
New marker
By the rate of accumulation of mutations, it is possible to predict how many years a person will live, and in women – to predict the period of fertility.
19.06.2020