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Other life sciences

Bionic Ear

Perm Polytechnic University is developing an ear prosthesis that allows restoring both the bone conduction of sound and the aesthetics of the lost organ.

22.11.2022
Genetics

"Genes of myopia"

Five genes have been found, variants of which increase the risk of myopia in people of European origin with higher education.

22.11.2022
Genetics

Diabetes and bile acids

Bile acids act as signaling molecules that control various functions in the body, including blood sugar levels.

22.11.2022
Cellular technologies

Organoids with Usher syndrome

Retinal organoids give hope for the creation of methods for the treatment of genetic visual disorders.

22.11.2022
Cellular technologies

Treat not only the head

Restoration of the intestinal epithelium can reduce the risk of dementia after a stroke by reducing the amount of molecules toxic to neurons in the bloodstream.

22.11.2022
Other life sciences

Double blow to the brain

The carriage of the APOE e4 allele together with amyloid deposits in the brain contributes to the accumulation of tau protein.

21.11.2022
Genetic engineering

Three out of fourteen

Treatment of one of the forms of Leber's amaurosis with CRISPR-Cas9 slightly improved vision in only a small part of patients.

21.11.2022
Other life sciences

Miraculous healing

A cure for cancer at an inoperable stage is an amazing rarity that happened to a patient named Jan Hilgeman.

21.11.2022
Other life sciences

Biology and neural networks

The leap from the cellular level to the molecular level led to the fact that the IT term "Big Data" came to biology.

21.11.2022
Biomedicine

More efficient and safer

The antitumor drug was made safer for healthy tissues, increasing its effectiveness against cancer cells by an order of magnitude.

18.11.2022
Your health

Sneezing on allergies

Allergen-specific immunotherapy is so far the only way to cure allergies, and not just relieve symptoms.

18.11.2022
Genetics

Replacement for mice and rats

Reading the genome of the Nilotic grass mouse makes it a full-fledged model organism for biomedical research.

18.11.2022
Biomedicine

Brain Cancer Vaccine

One of the patients who received DCVax after standard glioblastoma treatment is still alive seven years after the disease.

18.11.2022
Cellular technologies

Bone marrow in a test tube

Bone marrow organoids will help to better understand the nature of various oncohematological diseases and find tools for their treatment.

18.11.2022
Other life sciences

The vicious circle of diabetes

Glucose metabolites disrupt insulin synthesis, leading to an increase in glucose levels and an even greater accumulation of its metabolites.

17.11.2022
Exhibitions and conferences

Bioethics and genetics

How in the era of technological breakthroughs in medicine to make the patient not hurt, not scared and not lonely?

17.11.2022
Other life sciences

Flu and hormones

Infection with the H7N9 avian influenza virus in men, but not in women, is associated with a decrease in total and free testosterone levels.

17.11.2022
Genetics

From dementia to evolution

Candidate of Biological Sciences Denis Andreyuk – on the diagnosis and prevention of Alzheimer's disease and the problems of human evolution.

17.11.2022