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Other life sciences

Fish oil will protect the brain from fructose

Fructose alters the expression of hundreds of genes in brain cells, which causes deterioration of memory and learning ability, but these effects are at least partially neutralized by docosahexaenoic acid.

25.04.2016

Cellular technologies

IPSC and free radicals

The optimal balance of reactive oxygen species turned out to be one of the key factors responsible for reprogramming mature somatic cells into induced pluripotent ones.

22.04.2016

Biomedicine

Aspirin against cancer: new data

Taking low doses of aspirin during routine cancer therapy increases the chances of survival of patients by 20% and helps prevent the formation of metastases.

22.04.2016

Your health

Menopause and menopausal syndrome

Is it possible to prolong youth? Should I be afraid of menopause? Is it really possible to postpone the date of its onset? How to minimize its manifestations?

22.04.2016

Other life sciences

Copy correctly

Portuguese biologists have shown how the protein complex suppresses the copying of extra centrioles – organelles during cell division, deviations among which can provoke cancer.

22.04.2016

Biomedicine

Breast cancer without chemotherapy

The MammaPrint genetic test will increase the effectiveness of breast cancer treatment and in many cases will avoid unnecessary chemotherapy.

22.04.2016

Biomedicine

Beta cell transplantation

Transplantation of donor beta-cell islets prevents the development of severe hypoglycemia episodes in patients with type 1 diabetes and restores blood glucose control.

21.04.2016

Genetic engineering

Up to the nucleotide: details

Now point changes in DNA can be introduced in a much more direct way than has been done so far – without cutting its strands, which can be dangerous in itself.

21.04.2016

Genetic engineering

It's too early to wait for "X-Men" yet

Experiments on editing the genomes of human embryos are carried out exclusively for scientific purposes. Eye color, gender, IQ, etc. in the near future, no one is going to edit.

21.04.2016

Innovative Russia

Hands for Wiki

Vika is the tenth client of the Skolkovo Motorika company and the second child for whom prosthetics were made for both hands.

21.04.2016

Genetic engineering

Accurate to the nucleotide

The new version of the popular genomic editor CRISPR/Cas9 allows you to accurately remove and correct mutations with a length of just one "letter" of DNA.

21.04.2016

Prolonging youth

The Key to Healthy Longevity

Removal of the Per2 gene prevents a decrease in the number of immune cells in the blood of aging mice and increases their life expectancy by 15% without increasing the incidence of cancer.

21.04.2016

Biomedicine

Still hereditary diseases

The American firm JScreen has launched a massive campaign to conduct genetic tests for 104 diseases, the most common in the Jewish environment.

20.04.2016

Biomedicine

Antibiotic development: a new target

American and Japanese scientists have identified changes in the structure of an enzyme that serves as a promising target for new antibiotics.

20.04.2016

Biomedicine

Chimera against cancer

The idea of creating chimeric antigen receptors (chimeric antigen receptor, CAR) belongs to chemist and immunologist Zelig Eskhar from the Weizmann Institute of Sciences.

20.04.2016

Genetics

Genome of Russia

More than two hundred listeners gathered at the conference on human population and medical genetics "Genome of Russia", which took place in the Hypercube of the Skolkovo Innovation Center.

20.04.2016

Controversial

The prospects for telemedicine are amazing

In the professional community, the initiative of the Ministry of Health is supported, but they are afraid that it will break against the harsh Russian realities.

20.04.2016

Nanotechnology

LCD display on the skin

The ultra-thin and ultra-flexible protective coating will allow the development of skin displays for visualizing blood oxygen levels, heart rate and many other purposes.

19.04.2016

Biomedicine

Cancer therapy

Tumors obey the same rules of natural selection as other living creatures. Practitioners today are beginning to use this knowledge.

19.04.2016

Various

Android made in China

The robot, which is difficult to distinguish from a living person, was developed by scientists from the Chinese University of Science and Technology, who put artificial intelligence and deep self-learning functions into its electronic "brain".

19.04.2016