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Prolonging youth

Longevity Protein rejuvenates muscles

Systemic administration of the Klotho longevity protein helps to repair damage to aging muscles by improving the functioning of mitochondria.

28.11.2018
Genetics

A novel 30 thousand years long

Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens have interbred repeatedly, and for quite a long period of time.

28.11.2018
Prolonging youth

Crack the Aging code

A strategy that allows the use of physics methods and "big data" to create drugs that slow down aging.

28.11.2018
Your health

Truth and myths about vaccines

Leading experts of the Russian Federation – about how vaccination works, why it should not be neglected and what myths about vaccines exist.

28.11.2018
Genetics

In the footsteps of the unicorn

"Siberian unicorns", along with many other representatives of megafauna, became extinct less than 40,000 years ago, during the last ice age.

28.11.2018
Genetics

Anti-cancer genes

Scientists hope to adapt the mechanism of countering cancer found in "Tasmanian devils" for human treatment.

28.11.2018
Genetic engineering

We'll make anyone glow

Scientists have revealed the genetic basis of the luminescence of fungi and have shown the applicability of this system in biotechnology and medicine.

27.11.2018
Genetics

Incorrect standard

The reference genome obtained during the Human Genome project is 70% based on the genetic material of one person.

27.11.2018
Bioethics

"Reckless experiments"

The use of genetic engineering to change human heredity is a gross violation of bioethics.

27.11.2018
Other life sciences

Tablet for the paralyzed

Devices that control neuronal activity can establish the digital life of people deprived of mobility.

27.11.2018
Genetics

Paternal mitochondria

The researchers found nine people from three families who inherited up to 76% of mitochondrial DNA variants from their fathers.

27.11.2018
Genetics

The Key to age-related hearing loss

The gene, a key regulator of the activity of the outer hair cells of the inner ear, is a potential target for the treatment of age–related hearing loss.

26.11.2018
Biomedicine

Mannose and chemotherapy

The addition of mannose to the diet of mice increases the effectiveness of chemotherapy, slows down the growth of the tumor, and helps to reduce its size.

26.11.2018
Biomedicine

Safe and effective

The first clinical trial of multiple sclerosis immunotherapy was completed successfully for the majority of participants.

26.11.2018
Biomedicine

Cancer under pressure

The immune system limits the potential diversity of tumor cells, destroying the most immunogenic.

26.11.2018
Cellular technologies

Is it bad for the heart?

Scientists have created a test that will determine with high accuracy whether the substance has a side effect in the form of tachyarrhythmia.

26.11.2018
Genetic engineering

The first "designer children"

Chinese scientist Jiankui He announced the birth of the world's first children from genetically edited embryos.

26.11.2018
Cellular technologies

Tested on goats

Intervertebral discs from stem cells were successfully integrated into the body and withstood loads no worse than real ones.

26.11.2018
Healthy skepticism

Fear Merchants

... like a divergence, it gradates itself along the back and there, inwardly, turns the matter of the question into spiritual electric vortices…

23.11.2018