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Other life sciences

A van of contagious mosquitoes

Males will mate with females and infect them with the Wolbachia bacterium. If everything goes according to plan, new mosquitoes will not hatch from eggs laid by infected females.

18.07.2017
New in Gerontology

Senile dementia and sex

Psychologists from Coventry and Oxford Universities have shown that high sexual activity correlates with the preservation of cognitive abilities in old age.

18.07.2017
Nanotechnology

Thawed embryos

For the first time, scientists managed to successfully carry out cryopreservation of a fish embryo. During the work, they used gold nanoparticles and a laser to defrost the embryos.

18.07.2017
Theories of aging

Aging – a strategy to fight parasites?

If we assume that sexual reproduction has developed as a way to change the phenotypes of resistance to parasites, then aging increases the efficiency of this process.

17.07.2017
Your health

Useless and possibly harmful

A meta-analysis of studies on the effect of sugar substitutes on health has shown that they not only do not help to lose weight, but can even harm health.

17.07.2017
Genetic engineering

Useful pests will be checked in the case

In America, they will try to use genetically modified cabbage moth butterflies to combat this ubiquitous pest of cultivated plants.

17.07.2017
Other life sciences

Killers are born

Natural killers are so called because they are ready to kill immediately, without preparation. The mechanism of action of a natural killer is the same as that of a T-killer.

17.07.2017
Grants and competitions

AgroGenetics 2017

Competitive selection of innovative projects "AgroGenetics 2017: The best projects in the field of genetics, breeding and technologies for the realization of genetic potential".

17.07.2017
Prolonging youth

Young blood for a billionaire

Peter Thiel is confident that transfusion of blood plasma from young donors can potentially become a biological "source of youth".

17.07.2017
Prolonging youth

Behind the failure is a failure

Let's take a look at the path taken by science (and investors) to combat aging. This path is very sad – the dead with scythes stand on both sides of it.

14.07.2017
Biomedicine

"Skulachev ions" against bacteria

SkQ1 has a strong antibacterial effect. The target of this antibiotic is the bacterial membrane, the potential difference on which it reduces.

14.07.2017
Other life sciences

From omega to Alpha

Optogenetics, a method of controlling nerve cells using a laser, has helped turn the most timid mice into alpha males capable of regularly winning the competition.

14.07.2017
Your health

Brush all teeth at once and in 10 seconds

Many people brush their teeth incorrectly or do not brush them at all (for example, because they are too tired in the evenings). An automatic Amabrush toothbrush can solve this problem.

14.07.2017
Genetics

The influenza virus model has been revised

A new study has discovered a way in which different strains of the virus exchange genetic information and thus create new varieties of the disease.

14.07.2017
Cellular technologies

A human heart the size of a rat's

A tiny human heart grown on the collagen skeleton of a rat's heart can be used to test drugs and other treatments.

13.07.2017
Genetics

Check your biological age

Zymo Research has announced the launch of a new service that allows the assessment of biological age using the myDNAge epigenetic test.

13.07.2017
Other life sciences

Silicone Heart

Swiss researchers have developed and tested in the laboratory a silicone heart that contracts almost like the heart of a living person.

13.07.2017
Genetics

The strength of the hands is determined by genes

Researchers from the University of Cambridge on a sample of almost 200 thousand people described the genetic correlate (16 specific variations in genes) of grip strength.

13.07.2017
Other life sciences

Scotch tape in the gas tank

In fact, not a Scottish folk drink was poured into the tank as fuel, but butanol from its production waste – bards, which are used as livestock feed.

13.07.2017