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Genetic engineering

CRISPR/Cas9: The first clinical trial

As part of the trials, patients with lung cancer are injected with their own T-lymphocytes, in which the PD-1 membrane protein gene was removed using CRISPR/Cas9 technology.

17.11.2016
Biomedicine

How to treat arthritis?

Scottish scientists have developed a method that allows you to predict the results of treatment of rheumatoid arthritis using machine learning.

17.11.2016
Other life sciences

A new method of losing weight without dieting

A small pilot study conducted by American scientists has shown that electrical stimulation of the balance organ helps to effectively reduce body weight.

17.11.2016
Prolonging youth

Is blood plasma the elixir of youth?

After injections of blood plasma of young people and adolescents in elderly mice, many age-related processes slowed down, memory, thinking improved, and activity increased.

17.11.2016
Innovative Russia

More postdocs for Russian Science

What has changed in Russian science with the advent of mega-grants, why Russian scientists do not know how to write articles and why the country needs the institute of postdocs.

16.11.2016
Biomedicine

Antibiotics from the computer

Computer analysis of the DNA of the human microbiota helped scientists identify two powerful antibiotics – humimycin A and humimycin B, which will help fight "superbugs".

16.11.2016
Biomedicine

New Hope Antibiotic

A group of Chinese researchers reported on the creation of a way to synthesize the recently discovered revolutionary antibiotic teixobactin (teixobactin).

16.11.2016
Other life sciences

What we know about placebo and its effects

By definition, a placebo is inert and cannot have any effect by itself, and the effect can be registered and evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively.

16.11.2016
Other life sciences

Bionics News Digest

Implanted electronics, chimera robots and biological computers are increasingly blurring the vague boundary between living beings and inanimate matter.

16.11.2016
Your health

Let's drink to good cholesterol!

A new study has contributed to support the theory that moderate alcohol consumption may be good for the heart.

16.11.2016
Various

BioQuark's plans postponed

Experiments on the "resurrection" of people in a state of clinical death have been removed from the list of experiments that were to be conducted in India this year.

16.11.2016
Biomedicine

RNA interference against "swine flu"

The method is not to find new vaccines, but to "train" the immune system to produce interferons – proteins that help the immune system cope with the virus.

15.11.2016
Innovative Russia

How will gene therapy help

The biomedical cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation is preparing for publication the first popular science almanac in Russian dedicated to genome editing.

15.11.2016
Cloning

Cloned dogs: 2005-20016

In the spring of 2005, Snoopy, a puppy of the Afghan hound breed, was born at Seoul National University. By May 20016, Sooam Biotech Research had cloned more than 700 dogs.

15.11.2016
Cellular technologies

No worse than "them"

The dream of growing an organ "in vitro" is cherished by hundreds of scientists and doctors around the world. One of the most important research centers in the field of regenerative medicine is located in Krasnodar.

14.11.2016
Other life sciences

How to inhibit oncogenes

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified a new mechanism for blocking the action of mutations found in almost 30% of cancer cells.

14.11.2016
Other life sciences

A heart surgeon to himself

As it turns out, sometimes self-medication is not just possible, but also necessary. For example, British engineer Tal Goulsworth repaired his own heart against the advice of doctors.

11.11.2016