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Healthy skepticism

How a virus makes a boy out of a girl (1)

The story is about how popularizers spread ignorant obscurantism instead of knowledge and turned the fascinating history of scientific research into shameful clowning.

11.04.2016
Genetic engineering

Cellular gene therapy of spinal cord injuries

Transplantation of umbilical cord blood cells with a built-in combination of two genes producing axon and vascular growth factors caused a powerful therapeutic effect in rats.

11.04.2016
Nanotechnology

Supersensor for early cancer diagnosis

The sensitivity of the new optical biosensor for cancer diagnosis based on nanostructured materials is a million times higher than the sensitivity of earlier versions.

11.04.2016
Prolonging youth

Lithium chloride as a geroprotector

The addition of a lithium-containing mood stabilization drug to food increases the life expectancy of fruit flies-fruit flies by 16%.

11.04.2016
Genetic engineering

DNA Archive

A system has been created that stores various information in synthesized DNA and extracts it back without errors.

08.04.2016
Controversial

Are telomeres the most inaccurate biological clock?

The length of telomeres when assessing the probability of a person's death within 5 years is significantly inferior to chronological age and mobility, which calls into question the feasibility of invasive and expensive analyses.

08.04.2016
Your health

How does the placebo effect work?

Cardiologist Yaroslav Ashikhmin – about drugs without proven efficacy, the mechanisms of their action and clinical studies of the effect of placebo on the body.

08.04.2016
Genetics

The mystery of lncRNA has been solved

Biologists from the University of Pennsylvania have found out what long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are needed for, whose role in the genome has long remained unknown.

08.04.2016
Other life sciences

HIV may develop resistance to gene therapy

An international team of scientists has found out that the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system – a potentially effective way to fight HIV – can make the immunodeficiency virus stronger.

08.04.2016
New in Gerontology

How does Alzheimer's disease begin?

Scientists from Harvard Medical School have found the cause of synapse loss at an early stage of Alzheimer's disease and proved that this process begins before the formation of beta-amyloid plaques in the brain.

08.04.2016
Genetic engineering

CRISPR/Cas9: a short encyclopedia

Konstantin Severinov – about the immune system of bacteria, the mechanism of action of CRISPR/Cas9 and the results of editing the genome of human embryos

07.04.2016
Various

Molecular Biology for crazy pens

To isolate DNA, you will need a glass stack, dishwashing detergent, pineapple juice, table salt, strong alcohol, a drink tube and a toothpick. And then you can continue to play scientists…

07.04.2016
Other life sciences

Neurons from liposomes

Microscopic water droplets, bounded by a lipid membrane and stacked on top of each other using three-dimensional printing, can transmit an electrical impulse to each other, like nerve cells.

07.04.2016
Other life sciences

Tablet "Janus"

So the authors called the device for the long-term release of drugs, one side of which adheres to the intestinal mucosa, and the second repels everything that comes into contact with it.

07.04.2016
Genetics

Heart attack or angina pectoris?

Genetically determined changes in the amount of T-cadherin protein are associated with the nature of the onset of coronary heart disease – myocardial infarction or stable angina pectoris.

07.04.2016
Genetic engineering

DNA programming: How and why

The technology of the "Cello" program code allows you to register the required set of properties in the DNA of bacteria and create biological circuits with the necessary logical parameters working inside a living cell.

07.04.2016
Other life sciences

Pig's heart

A new record in the field of xenotransplantology. The new publication talks about five monkeys who lived for a long time after such an operation. The longest period was 945 days.

06.04.2016
Note to the businessman

Anti-aging – promising investments

The number of consumers in the Anti-Aging market is growing automatically and continuously, and in most countries they represent a wealthy category of the population.

06.04.2016
Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology against cancer

Russian scientists have managed to develop a unique method of cancer diagnosis – a magnetite-based nano-device that will help detect the disease at an early stage using MRI and immediately begin effective treatment.

06.04.2016