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New in Gerontology

From the life of diggers

Naked diggers are an exception to many "rules" of the animal world: as it turned out, these rodents do not even age and do not begin to die more often with age.

29.01.2018
New in Gerontology

Parkinsonism and senescent cells

Systemic removal of neurons that have lost their potential for division inhibits the development of Parkinson's disease in laboratory animals.

26.01.2018
New in Gerontology

Aging and mitochondria: new data

Review of two recently published freely available articles on the role of mitochondria in the aging process.

26.01.2018
Other life sciences

See through

The ProjectDR augmented reality system allows you to project the results of computer and magnetic resonance imaging on the human body.

26.01.2018
Other life sciences

Three times marked

A method has been developed to label dividing stem cells with three different labels. Before that, it was possible to use a maximum of two at the same time.

26.01.2018
Other life sciences

How many germs are on your salad?

The new method is 100 times more sensitive than other "fast" solutions that can find bacteria at an amount of at least 10,000 per 1 ml.

26.01.2018
Other life sciences

Unexpected helpers

When the skin is damaged, the glial cells of the nervous tissue are rebuilt, migrate to the damaged area and support the regeneration processes.

26.01.2018
Nanotechnology

A new device for glucose control

Simple, easy and effective, it detects blood glucose without injections by analyzing the chemical composition of tears or sweat.

26.01.2018
Other life sciences

Another heart on a chip

The startup Tara Biosystems has grown a "heart on a chip", which can reduce the time of drug testing to one year.

26.01.2018
Nanotechnology

Life-saving microbubbles

A stable source of oxygen for first aid is being tested, which is administered intravenously. The excess is capable of self-destruction.

26.01.2018
Cloning

The first "real" primate clones

Macaques cloned using the "Dolly sheep method" were born at the Institute of Neurobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

26.01.2018
Various

The system needs to be changed

A system focused on the treatment of one disease in one patient needs to be reorganized and resources prepared for its implementation.

26.01.2018
Biomedicine

Live vaccine

The influenza virus with increased sensitivity to interferon protected experimental animals, including from unrelated wild-type strains.

26.01.2018
Other life sciences

The power of thought

The exoskeleton of the hand is able to train brain activity and include those parts of the brain that were not previously responsible for movements in this hand.

26.01.2018
Note to the businessman

Biotech Stars

Buying small biotech startups means growth for the entire industry, but will pharmaceutical companies invest more actively in such enterprises?

24.01.2018
Bioethics

Sell DNA

A number of companies offer to buy personal genetic information in order to then sell it for medical research.

23.01.2018