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Cloning

Resurrect the northern penguin?

The wingless loon, the only modern representative of the genus Pinguinus, nested 200 years ago on the coasts of Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Greenland, parts of Spain and New England.

30.08.2016
Other life sciences

Edible batteries

A melanin battery is not as powerful as a lithium-ion battery, but it is enough to supply energy to a drug delivery device or sensor.

30.08.2016
Biomedicine

Scars in a test tube

Although the main goal of the researchers is to help patients with severe or extensive scars, the method can also be used in cosmetic medicine.

29.08.2016
Various

Casein and pectin instead of plastic

Edible packaging film passes 500 times less oxygen than plastic, and completely decomposes in the environment without the formation of toxic substances.

29.08.2016
Biomedicine

Created an opioid with no side effects

An international team of scientists has synthesized a low-molecular-weight opioid that does not have the serious side effects characteristic of this class of drugs.

29.08.2016
Cellular technologies

A new method of cell therapy for stroke

Researchers from the University of Southern California have found a way to stimulate the transformation of nerve stem cells into adult neurons and their migration to the focus of stroke.

29.08.2016
Note to the businessman

Electroceutics

A new strategy perpendicular to pharmacology is being born before our eyes – bioelectric medicine, a very intriguing field and on the rise. The market volume will grow rapidly.

29.08.2016
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy will help the treatment of parkinsonism

In the next phase of clinical trials of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease, patients will be injected with a triple dose of the drug VY-AADC01, delivered directly to the brain.

26.08.2016
Genetics

Genes and diseases: new data

DNA analysis of more than 60 thousand people allowed us to identify more than three thousand mutations indicating a high probability of a number of diseases. Most of the identified mutations are described for the first time.

26.08.2016
Other life sciences

Almost perfect prosthetic arm

Unfortunately, one of the most advanced bionic prostheses in the world is not perfect, because it is still far from creating a full-fledged human-machine communication interface.

26.08.2016
Genetic engineering

A bacterium without extra codons

Removing some of the synonymous codons will create an "artificial" bacterium that is unable to reproduce outside the laboratory and at the same time resistant to all existing viruses.

26.08.2016
Genetics

Vision and hearing in one gene

An international team of scientists has shown that a mutation of the Slc4a10 gene, which was previously known to be responsible for vision, leads to hearing loss in aging animals.

26.08.2016
Other life sciences

Mice and bacteria

The results of experiments conducted on laboratory mice turn out to be dependent on the species composition of the bacteria that live in these mice in the intestines.

26.08.2016
Biomedicine

Microbes-oncologists

Canadian scientists have developed a method of delivering drugs to hard-to-reach areas of tumors with the help of bacteria sensitive to the magnetic field and oxygen levels.

25.08.2016
Various

A new record of life expectancy

In terms of life expectancy (on average at least 272 years), Greenland sharks became the first among vertebrates, overtaking the Greenland whale, some individuals of which live up to 211 years.

25.08.2016
Biomedicine

Hydrogel will help with a heart attack

In experiments on sheep with myocardial infarction, the new gel ensured the preservation of the alluvial function of the heart and prevented the development of heart failure.

25.08.2016
New in Gerontology

Twins, especially men, live longer

Twins not only have a best friend from birth, but also, as it turned out, live longer than people born as a result of a single pregnancy.

25.08.2016
Biomedicine

Staphylococcus versus Staphylococcus

German scientists have discovered a new weapon to fight the hospital monster – multi-resistant Staphylococcus aureus – right under our noses. Or rather, in it.

25.08.2016