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Nanotechnology

The Invisible Optometrist

By replacing an invasive, often complex operation, nanorobots can significantly optimize medicine.

02.02.2018
Genetic engineering

Myorediting

The researchers edited heart muscle cells with mutations leading to the development of Duchenne myodystrophy.

02.02.2018
Prolonging youth

Cellular tragedies, part 6

How to burn bridges behind you and start life anew? Such changes are not always easy for people, but maybe the cells succeed.

01.02.2018
Genetic engineering

Leukemia treatment: good news

The method of CAR T-therapy of leukemia in young people has passed safety and efficacy tests and received FDA approval.

01.02.2018
Other life sciences

New immunopathology

Scientists have described an unknown part of the molecular mechanism, the failures of which lead to a weakening of immunity.

01.02.2018
Cellular technologies

Ears from the printer

Chinese researchers have transplanted auricles created using 3D printing based on patients' own cells to children with microtia.

01.02.2018
Genetic engineering

AI will help genetic engineers

The self-learning program allows you to increase the accuracy of genome editing using CRISPR-Cpf1.

01.02.2018
Prolonging youth

Cellular tragedies, part 5

By what signs can aging be recognized, is it possible to prevent it and when to wait for the pills of eternal youth?

01.02.2018
Genetics

Oncogenes Double Whammy

The aggressiveness of pancreatic cancer is associated with the duplication of the mutant KRAS gene or other oncogenes.

31.01.2018
Other life sciences

Who hands over the secondary product…

Biologists and engineers from Pennsylvania have created a "space" bioreactor that implements the idea from the novel "Moscow-2042".

31.01.2018
Biomedicine

Cancer can be put to sleep

Deficiency of vitamin B2 (riboflavin) leads to the transition of cancer stem cells into a state of suspended animation.

31.01.2018
Biomedicine

Bubbles against cancer

Saturation of tumor tissue with oxygen significantly increases the effectiveness of radiotherapy and the survival of an animal model of breast cancer.

31.01.2018
New in Gerontology

How do you sleep?

The failure of the biological clock with sleep disorders occurs several years before the manifestation of the initial signs of Alzheimer's disease.

30.01.2018
Prolonging youth

Sirt4 – "longevity gene"

Activation of the Sirt4 gene increased the lifespan of fruit flies by 20%. This gene has also been found in humans.

30.01.2018
Other life sciences

Weight gain and "-omics"

Even moderate fluctuations in body weight cause pronounced changes in the microbiome, immune and cardiovascular systems.

30.01.2018
Biomedicine

A new generation of test strips

The rapid tests created at MISIS diagnose heart attack, sepsis, viral and bacterial infections and determine the duration of pregnancy.

30.01.2018