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Biomedicine

Eh, guys, it's not like that…

97% of new drugs designed to fight a particular form of cancer do not enter the market after clinical trials.

05.11.2019
Genetic engineering

Sleep, my beauty

Biologists have improved the "sleeping beauty" genome editing system – the delivery of genes to the cell based on mobile elements.

05.11.2019
Genetics

Two strikes…

Changing just two genes cured obesity, type 2 diabetes, and kidney and heart failure in mice.

05.11.2019
Genetics

How gay are you?

Barely having time to arise, a new field of science – sociogenomics – gave rise to a whole bunch of ethical problems.

05.11.2019
Biomedicine

Vessels and cancer

Microvascular endothelial dysfunction may be a useful marker for predicting cancer risk.

01.11.2019
Other life sciences

Biodegradable stents

A team of Krasnoyarsk researchers is working to create "ideal" stents from biocompatible and biodegradable polymers.

01.11.2019
Other life sciences

The HPV Paradox

A study by American scientists shows that non-oncogenic types of human papillomavirus protect against skin cancer.

01.11.2019
Note to the businessman

Do business on life extension

Investing in the development of the life expectancy market is one of the most promising investment tools.

01.11.2019
Biomedicine

Sound therapy of metastases

Antitumor drugs can be safely delivered to lymph nodes affected by breast cancer metastases and activated by sound.

31.10.2019
Biomedicine

Autophagy vs. Huntington

Scientists have found several molecules that bind simultaneously with mutant huntingtin and proteins in the composition of autophagosomes.

31.10.2019
Your health

Don't relax in retirement

A decrease in social and intellectual activity after leaving work negatively affects cognitive skills.

31.10.2019
Biomedicine

Prevent metastasis

With the help of implanted scaffolds, it is possible to detect signs of the disease before cancer cells begin to spread through the body.

31.10.2019
Other life sciences

Synapses on memristors

Engineer Viktor Erokhin – about artificial neural networks, synaptic learning and restoration of the spinal cord.

31.10.2019
Other life sciences

Let's do without mice

A new method for evaluating deadly neurotoxins using synthetic peptides does not require euthanasia of laboratory animals.

31.10.2019
Genetics

Cancer will be put on the counter

The "mitochondrial counter" – the number of adenine–guanine substitutions in the mitochondrial genome - can be used to diagnose cancer.

31.10.2019
New in Gerontology

Double Alzheimer's screening

A preserved sense of smell combined with high cognitive test results indicate an almost complete absence of the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

30.10.2019
Biomedicine

A new approach to liquid biopsy

Instead of looking for cancer cells in the blood sample, the developers of the method intend to remove all healthy ones from it.

30.10.2019
Other life sciences

Amyloid in vivo and in vitro

Beta-amyloid filaments from the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease turned out to be unlike the filaments that it forms in the laboratory.

30.10.2019
Other life sciences

We are not mice

Why drugs successfully tested on mice are recognized as suitable for humans in about one case out of ten.

30.10.2019