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Other life sciences

What makes gamers stupid?

Another study showed that the influence of video games on the hippocampus depends on two factors – the genre of the game and the strategy of orientation in space.

28.08.2017
Nanotechnology

Net for cages

American researchers have presented micro robots that can not only move in a certain direction, but also manipulate individual cells.

28.08.2017
Genetics

Primordial chaos

At the very first stages of specialization, the cells of the embryo choose their fate – the direction of differentiation – randomly switching on and off a variety of genes.

28.08.2017
Genetic engineering

The failure of a CRISPR/Cas9 competitor

The author of the NgAgo protein genome editing technique, under pressure from the scientific community, withdrew an article published in May 2016 from the journal Nature Biotechnology.

28.08.2017
Other life sciences

Microflora helps fight the flu

The staff of the University of Washington Medical School showed how the intestinal microbiota can reduce inflammation in the lungs during infection with the flu virus.

28.08.2017
Other life sciences

Not only hepatocytes

An international team of researchers has demonstrated for the first time the role of cholangiocytes – cells of the intrahepatic bile ducts – in the regeneration of liver tissues.

28.08.2017
Genetic engineering

Genetically modified embryos: details

With the help of the CRISPR/Cas genetic editing system, human embryos were freed from the mutation that causes heart disease – hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

28.08.2017
Your health

Brain Cancer: a damn dozen answers

Independent information portal Oncobrain.ru specially for the Social Navigator project, I have prepared a material that contains answers to the most important questions about brain tumors.

25.08.2017
Genetic engineering

Oh, it's not an easy job…

One of the first developers of the popular genome editing method from the Broad Institute came to the conclusion that CRISPR/Cas is not yet suitable for working with human genes.

25.08.2017
Genetic engineering

Progeria and telomeres

American scientists have managed to reverse the premature aging of cells taken from patients with Hutchinson-Guilford progeria by lengthening telomeres using RNA therapy.

25.08.2017
Other life sciences

Cyborgization – to the masses!

On June 15, Russia took the first step towards mass cyborgization: the first Russian competition of people with high–tech prostheses - Cybathletics - was successfully held in Moscow.

25.08.2017
Genetic engineering

Upgrade of paws

In mice with the synthesis of a protein called plexin A1 disabled, the brushes begin to work better: they are better at handling food that needs to be grabbed and held in a fist.

25.08.2017
Innovative Russia

"Biocad" expands the database

The unique data warehouse contains more than 600 billion molecules, which were obtained from 1,758 donors. The project has been implemented by the biotech company BIOCAD since 2014.

25.08.2017
New in Gerontology

Sixteen "longevity genes"

14 genetic variants out of 16 markers of life expectancy, which were discovered during large-scale sequencing of genomes, were not previously known.

25.08.2017
Genetic engineering

You can, you can…

The answer to the question of whether extinct species need to be resurrected is no, it is not necessary. Now environmentalists have more pressing tasks that would be worth spending our limited resources on.

25.08.2017
Other life sciences

No worse than an atomic war

With gradual irradiation, unlike instantaneous, stem cells slow down their division cycle and use this delay to repair DNA.

28.07.2017
Genetic engineering

"Ribocomputer" in E. coli

Geneticists have created biocomputers from bacteria with a record-breaking complex logic circuit. The role of electrical signals in them is played by short RNA molecules.

28.07.2017
Other life sciences

DNA will protect against melanoma

Researchers from Binghamton University have shown that the absorption of ultraviolet radiation by DNA films can increase with repeated exposure.

28.07.2017