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Prolonging youth

Immunity against brain aging

With age, a certain type of immune cells accumulates in the brain, the activation of which improved memory and learning in old mice.

11.02.2020
Biomedicine

Prognosis of macular degeneration risk

The risk of developing blindness can be predicted long before the first symptoms appear by observing the blood test indicators

11.02.2020
Cellular technologies

Live Yarn

Fibroblast filaments can be used to "repair" various tissues and organs – for example, stitching wounds, as well as creating valves or vessels.

11.02.2020
Other life sciences

Instead of a syringe and a pump

The microneedles in the "smart" patch are made of a glucose-sensitive polymer, which contains insulin inside.

11.02.2020
Biomedicine

Cancer: who is to blame and what to do?

Interview with Alexander Panchin, Candidate of Biological Sciences, member of the RAS Commission on Combating Pseudoscience, winner of the Enlightener Prize.

11.02.2020
Nanotechnology

Platelet Couriers

Platelet fragments successfully deliver the drug to the infarction zone, allowing you to achieve the effect of treatment at a much lower dosage.

10.02.2020
Nanotechnology

Smartphone lab assistant

A compact device the size of a credit card connects to a smartphone and diagnoses infectious diseases from a saliva sample.

10.02.2020
Genetic engineering

Mutational substitution

A new method of gene therapy allowed mice blind from birth to partially regain their sight. It will be tested on humans in the coming years.

10.02.2020
Healthy skepticism

Delusions beyond the conceivable

At the Demidov readings, Eduard Rossel said that foreign baby food is dangerous – through it, human genes can be "regulated".

10.02.2020
Genetic engineering

Ordered to survive

Modified CAR-T lymphocytes were able to multiply in tumors, and all their "offspring" retained the edited genes.

10.02.2020
Other life sciences

Activator for macrophages

Putrescine may be a potential drug against atherosclerosis and possibly other conditions associated with chronic inflammation.

10.02.2020
Genetics

Mitosis or meiosis?

Both male and female mice became infertile if the meiosin gene discovered by Japanese scientists was artificially turned off.

10.02.2020
Biomedicine

Brain Cleansing

The drug bexarotine activates the retinoid X-receptor and enhances the action of phagocytes, which remove dead cells after a stroke.

07.02.2020
Genetics

Cancer Secrets

Analysis of non-coding DNA will help to identify cancers that are difficult to detect now, and decades earlier than existing methods.

07.02.2020
Grants and competitions

BioHack 2020

Hackathon for teams of biologists and programmers to solve applied problems in the field of bioinformatics for 48 hours.

07.02.2020
Other life sciences

Oncotripsy

This is how the developers called the method of gentle application of low-intensity ultrasound pulses for the treatment of cancer.

07.02.2020
Genetics

We don't need too much

To disable the active genes of the "extra" X chromosome in female mammals, the regulatory protein SPEN is required.

07.02.2020
Cellular technologies

An inexhaustible source

Kidneys would ideally be treated with precursor cells of kidney tissues. Researchers from Germany have learned to isolate them from urine.

07.02.2020
Cellular technologies

Ink on the wound

The new portable device is designed for three-dimensional printing of the skin at the site of surgical removal of burned tissue.

06.02.2020