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Biotechnologies - into life

Good meat

It is impossible to distinguish the taste, smell, color or texture of Good Meat steaks from those served in restaurants — even under a microscope.

30.05.2022
Biomedicine

A promising couple

Combination therapy has shown good results in the treatment of several types of late-stage cancer.

30.05.2022
Biomedicine

Against HIV and dementia

Perhaps maraviroc can be taken in the early stages of cognitive decline. Now scientists are planning to launch clinical trials.

30.05.2022
Other life sciences

Heat stroke

On cultures of mouse testicles, Japanese scientists have demonstrated which stages of spermatogenesis are disrupted at elevated temperatures.

30.05.2022
Genetic engineering

Effective editing

The new CRISPR-Combo method allows multiple genes to be manipulated in different ways at the same time.

27.05.2022
Other life sciences

Warm - blooded tyrannosaurs

Analysis of the end products of lipoxidation in fossils allowed us to make assumptions about the metabolic rate of dinosaurs.

27.05.2022
Cellular technologies

Store eggs in a biobank

The use of frozen eggs taken from a woman at a young age, and not right before IVF in 30-40 years, improves the results.

27.05.2022
Genetics

Homo hybridus

Interview with the authors of the new book "Human Evolution. Bones, genes and culture" by Doctors of Biological Sciences Alexander Markov and Elena Naimark.

27.05.2022
Cellular technologies

Cartilage under load

A robotic joint that mimics the movements of a human shoulder has helped create payloads for the cartilage tissue growing on it.

27.05.2022
Healthy skepticism

From a sick body to a healthy one

Let's consider in detail the prerequisites for a head transplant operation, its complexity and existing technologies, as well as the vision of Canavero himself.

26.05.2022
Other life sciences

Turning over provocateurs

Immune cells that cause an inflammatory process in the arteries leading to atherosclerosis can be used to fight the disease.

26.05.2022
Genetics

Tweezers for chromosomes

Laser tweezers will reveal chromosomal rearrangements – the main cause of spontaneous abortions and many diseases.

26.05.2022
Cloning

Vain efforts: details

Even if the efforts of genetic engineers and breeders are crowned with success, they will receive not an extinct species itself, but a kind of hybrid.

26.05.2022
Other life sciences

Seven-year forecast

A new biomarker predicts the risks of Crohn's disease 7 years before the characteristic symptoms — abdominal pain, diarrhea, weight loss, anemia and others.

26.05.2022
New in Gerontology

The Golden Key

Specialists from the Buck Institute studied the contribution of mitochondrial biogenesis to the process of mitochondria during aging.

26.05.2022
New in Gerontology

Diabetic brain ages faster

In people with advanced type 2 diabetes, normal brain aging with a decrease in cognitive abilities accelerates to 26%.

25.05.2022
Other life sciences

Fine sorting

To diagnose food allergies, a magnetic chip quickly isolates rare types of white blood cells – basophils – from a whole blood sample.

25.05.2022
Genetic engineering

Utrophin instead of dystrophin

The therapeutic effect of the resulting viral drug was tested on model mice with Duchenne myodystrophy.

25.05.2022
Other life sciences

Mitochondrial Activators

Artificial proteins embedded in mitochondrial membranes increased the activity of ATP synthesis and increased the lifespan of nematodes.

25.05.2022