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Genetics

How to cut the R-loop

R-loops (DNA and RNA hybrids) often cause breaks in DNA and thereby provoke genomic instability.

05.06.2019
Prolonging youth

Rejuvenation of the immune system

To "wake up" the immune system of elderly mice, even the usual neighborhood with young ones or vaccination against cholera is enough.

05.06.2019
Biomedicine

33% more efficient

Large-scale clinical studies have proven the effectiveness of apalutamide in reducing the risk of mortality from prostate cancer.

05.06.2019
Biotechnologies - into life

Genotek History

In recent years, the company has become one of the leaders of the young commercial genomics market.

04.06.2019
Biomedicine

Glioblastoma: genes + chemistry

Gene therapy made it possible to increase the dose of chemotherapeutic drugs with an impressive improvement in survival.

04.06.2019
Genetics

Antidiabetic mutation

The appearance of this mutation among the first farmers helped our ancestors to adapt to food with a large amount of carbohydrates.

04.06.2019
Genetic engineering

With the right to correspond

It is unknown how successful the projects to create synthetic genomes will be, but in any case they will benefit science and practice.

04.06.2019
Your health

Death from homeopathy

A non-drinking man developed severe alcoholic hepatitis as a result of taking a homeopathic drug.

04.06.2019
Genetics

Harm or benefit?

The chance of living up to 76 years in homozygotes for the HIV-protecting gene is about 20% lower than in carriers of at least one healthy gene.

04.06.2019
Grants and competitions

Bio/mol/text – 2019

We are waiting for your works, venerable authors and inexperienced beginners living in Russia and outside of it, of any profession, age and citizenship!

03.06.2019
Note to the businessman

There will be money, but not immediately

Investors should pay attention to the sectors of the market that can bring income above the general market on the horizon of three years.

03.06.2019
Healthy skepticism

Cloned Japanese

About three thousand genetically modified children are already in the process of training to work in factories.

03.06.2019
Other life sciences

Scientists "infected" mice with autism

Healthy laboratory mice began to show symptoms of autism after transplanting microflora from the intestines of sick children.

03.06.2019
Your health

A time bomb

Measles erases the immune system's memory of infections carried by the body and makes people vulnerable to other dangerous viruses and bacteria.

03.06.2019
Genetic engineering

Gene Therapy News

Despite the failures in the past, gene therapy is able to improve the situation in the treatment of severe hereditary diseases.

03.06.2019
Cellular technologies

Drops to restore the sense of smell

Mice without the so-called cilia on the surface of olfactory cells began to smell after the introduction of stem cells into the nasal cavity.

03.06.2019
Your health

Scientists have changed their minds

In a large-scale study, scientists did not find a link between working the night shift and the risk of developing breast cancer.

03.06.2019
Cellular technologies

Plasma for artificial skin

Argon plasma treatment had the greatest positive effect on growth and metabolic processes in the fibroblasts of laboratory mice.

31.05.2019
Genetic engineering

Antimalarial fungi

To enhance the virulence of the fungus infecting mosquitoes, its genome was modified by embedding an insect-specific toxin gene.

31.05.2019