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Genetics

Obesity is reversible

Animals that hibernate have some kind of internal metabolic switch that allows them to control their obesity.

27.11.2019
Genetics

Smoking and evolution

The longevity of elderly smokers can be provided by the same genes that helped ancient people adapt to the smoke of bonfires.

27.11.2019
Biomedicine

DNA detectors find cancer

Devices made of synthetic DNA can detect cancer with a small number of false positive results.

26.11.2019
Other life sciences

Thirteen in one

The accuracy of determining thirteen types of cancer using the new technology is 99 percent, representatives of Toshiba assure.

26.11.2019
Cellular technologies

Bones from the future

The technology tested on the ISS will make it possible to create organs for transplantation to astronauts on interplanetary expeditions.

26.11.2019
Other life sciences

Diabetes and hormones

Biologist Olga Smirnova – about pancreatic hormones, the importance of insulin and the ratio of type I and type II diabetes.

26.11.2019
Genetics

Cancer DNA has its own laws

Cancer ring DNA accelerates the mutation of cancer cells and makes them more aggressive. This is due to the peculiarities of gene inheritance during division.

25.11.2019
Other life sciences

Touch at a distance

Hugging loved ones via video communication will be possible thanks to a new wireless tactile device.

25.11.2019
Genetics

Genes of the future

A boom in DNA testing of children has begun in China, although from a scientific point of view such tests are no better than fortune-telling on coffee grounds.

25.11.2019
Other life sciences

Is it worth spending money?

Artificial intelligence will help determine which lung cancer patients will benefit from expensive immunotherapy.

25.11.2019
Genetic engineering

Nothing new

What was discussed at the meeting of the international commission on genetic editing of future children.

22.11.2019
Genetic engineering

One more step

The company, which last year released the first drug based on RNA interference, received approval for the second.

22.11.2019
Genetic engineering

Almost 20 years

Bangladesh may become the first country to allow the cultivation of "golden rice", the first article about which was published in 2000.

22.11.2019
Your health

Lose weight without pills

Weight loss pills increase the risk of diseases of the digestive system by almost 2 times, and taking laxatives for the same purpose – by 4.

22.11.2019
Cellular technologies

Organoids with vessels

German scientists have managed to improve organoids created from pluripotent stem cells in a Petri dish.

22.11.2019
Bioethics

Make way for "designer kids"!

Bioethicist Kevin Smith is sure that gene editing of embryos is not just permissible, but also necessary.

21.11.2019
Other life sciences

Killers in check

The protein that natural killer cells use to destroy target cells inhibits the antitumor activity of the immune system.

21.11.2019
Your health

The main risk of IVF is pregnancy

The chances of getting cancer in women who become pregnant as a result of IVF are exactly the same as with natural fertilization.

21.11.2019