Genetics
Contagious mutants
The most common mutation increases the contagiousness of the coronavirus from 2.5 to 8 times. It occurs in more than half of the studied strains.
16.06.2020- English version
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Theories of aging
Aging is a consequence of development
Biologist Vadim Gladyshev – about the probability of mortality, early mortality and the importance of the process of division of organisms.
16.06.2020
Cellular technologies
BBB "in vitro"
Organoids that produce cerebrospinal fluid can be used to predict the neurotoxicity of new drugs.
15.06.2020
Cellular technologies
Point delivery Moscow Time
A method of targeted delivery of mesenchymal stem cells into damaged skin tissues using a tape with microneedles has been developed.
15.06.2020
Genetic engineering
Without PCR
The new method of reading information recorded in DNA works at room temperature, which brings the technology closer to real use.
15.06.2020
Biotechnologies - into life
A new global race
The international race to create a coronavirus vaccine resembles the competition between the USSR and the USA for space exploration in the 1960s.
15.06.2020
Genetics
Diagnosis by transcriptome
Scientists from MIPT, together with colleagues and doctors, have successfully used RNA sequencing for cancer diagnosis for the first time.
15.06.2020
Biomedicine
Interferon has done its job…
A protein that helps fight viruses can interfere with lung recovery after an illness if it remains active for a long time.
15.06.2020
Other life sciences
A gap in the fence
The barrier between blood and brain tissues is not as strong and impervious to large molecules as previously thought.
15.06.2020
Other life sciences
Chip COVID
Russian scientists are developing a unique rapid diagnostic system COVID-19, which promises to be the fastest in the country.
15.06.2020
Other life sciences
Killers without intermediaries
T-lymphocytes in the lungs, responsible for long-term immunity against viruses, can be activated more easily than previously thought.
15.06.2020
Cellular technologies
Implants with growth factor
Scientists have developed a technology for three-dimensional printing of genetically engineered structures for targeted regeneration of bone tissues.
11.06.2020
Cellular technologies
Gastruloid
British and Dutch biologists have created a model of gastrula from stem cells – a human embryo aged 18-21 days.
11.06.2020
Other life sciences
Fat - burning molecule
The new drug helped the mice lose weight and improve their health while maintaining the usual diet without undesirable side effects.
11.06.2020
Genetics
Genetics and coronavirus
The severe course of COVID-19 disease is caused by features in two parts of the genome.
11.06.2020
Other life sciences
Regenerating implants
Carbon fibers increase the resistance of the bone implant to damage and provide self-healing.
11.06.2020
Cellular technologies
Liver from the spleen
Chinese biologists have developed a method that allows you to turn one organ into another, that is, to grow a liver on the frame of the spleen.
11.06.2020
Genetics
Chromosomal tricks
Researchers from Russia and Poland have found out how edible frogs remove half of their DNA from their genome before forming germ cells.
10.06.2020
Prolonging youth
Saline instead of young blood?
Dilution of blood plasma with saline solution itself has a strengthening effect on the liver, muscle and brain tissues of old mice.
10.06.2020
Nanotechnology
Liquid crystal cartilage
American scientists have printed a porous structure resembling biological cartilage from liquid crystal elastomers.
10.06.2020