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Genetics

Target RNA for CRISPR

A large database has been created containing information on the role of various RNA sites for the possibility of editing using the CRISPR technique.

18.03.2020
Biomedicine

Uncrowned

A prototype of a cheap COVID-19 vaccine based on the tobacco mosaic virus, "pasted" with coronavirus proteins, can be created in three months.

18.03.2020
Other life sciences

A trick against rejection

It is possible to overcome the immune rejection of transplanted organs by using the way in which cancer cells calm the immune system.

18.03.2020
Other life sciences

CamAPS FX is available for patients

There is still a lot of work to be done, but this is an important milestone on the way to a fully automated artificial pancreas.

18.03.2020
Other life sciences

5-7 times better than usual

It's all about the combinatorial approach: the porous structure of the implant, its mineral enrichment and the action of two protein growth factors.

18.03.2020
Nanotechnology

Nanoresin instead of living tissue

Medical devices made of flexible material with antibacterial coating do not cause infectious complications.

17.03.2020
Biomedicine

Passive antibody therapy

The blood of people who have had Covid-19 can protect those who have not yet been infected. This method has been successfully used since the 90s of the XIX century.

17.03.2020
Nanotechnology

The DNA Trap

Experts from Rice University have developed a technique for capturing the DNA of superbugs freely circulating in wastewater.

17.03.2020
Your health

Stopcoronavirus

The portal provides up-to-date information about the real situation with coronavirus in Russia and the world. The portal is constantly updated.

17.03.2020
Genetics

Multi-armed CRISPR

The CHyMErA method, created by researchers from the University of Toronto, allows you to edit several fragments of the genome at once.

17.03.2020
Genetic engineering

Mice will be caught

Genetically modified mice for testing the COVID-19 vaccine are sold from one to three thousand dollars apiece.

16.03.2020
Biomedicine

Close the second door

CD147 is a target not only for coronaviruses, but also for malaria. Antibody-blocker CD147 has long existed in the form of several drugs.

16.03.2020
Other life sciences

Interval fasting and liver

Scientists from the University of Sydney have found out what happens in the body and, in particular, in the liver during intermittent fasting.

16.03.2020
Genetic engineering

Successes and challenges

Gene therapy of heart failure, the main cause of death in Barth syndrome, has shown high efficiency, but so far – only in mice.

13.03.2020
Genetics

Not just garbage

Probably, some areas of non-coding DNA are involved in the regulation of genes, while others are genetic garbage.

13.03.2020
Other life sciences

Short- and long-livers

Mankind's envious interest in long-lived species is completely understandable: suddenly it will be possible to learn something that will allow us to live longer.

13.03.2020
Biomedicine

Check the donor stool!

Six patients became ill after intestinal bacteria transplantation. Two of them were cured at home, two more – in the hospital. Two died.

13.03.2020