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Biomedicine

Time to start phages

WHO is literally crying out about the catastrophic situation with antibiotics. Now many laboratories are thinking about how it would be possible to use both bacteriophages and their components against bacterial infections.

24.02.2014
New in Gerontology

microRNA and aging

As fruit flies age, more microRNAs accumulate on the Ago2 protein complex, and, consequently, microRNAs influence aging-related events.

24.02.2014
Biomedicine

Multiple sclerosis is diagnosed by antibodies

When an RNA aptamer, to which a molecule of the luminous protein obelin is attached, meets with an antibody typical of multiple sclerosis, the protein is activated and emits a quantum of light.

24.02.2014
New in Gerontology

Muscle hormone is an indicator of biological age

There is a molecular relationship between physical activity and healthy aging, in which the level of the hormone irisin in the blood is a kind of indicator of "biological age".

21.02.2014
Genetic engineering

Another method of gene therapy of infarction

With the help of a gene that regulates the cell cycle, it is possible to make the post-infarction heart muscle recover at the expense of real muscle cells, and not with the help of connective tissue.

21.02.2014
Other life sciences

Brain – computer – spinal cord interface

With the help of implants inserted into the brain and spinal cord of different monkeys, it was possible to achieve the transmission of motor nerve impulses from one individual to another. In the future, this technology should restore mobility to paralyzed people.

20.02.2014
Biomedicine

Fecal Therapy: only $250 per serving

The world's first "fecalobank" has already provided 13 hospitals and clinics in the United States with more than 135 doses of tested, filtered, frozen and ready-to-use fecal samples at a price of $ 250 per dose.

20.02.2014
Other life sciences

Owners of Androids, help proteomics!

The "Power Sleep" program allows you to use the computing power of mobile phones to process the SIMAP database on the similarity of different types of proteins in order to use the patterns found in various fields of medicine.

20.02.2014
Prolonging youth

The brain needs to be walked daily

Walking promenades increase the size of certain areas of the brain associated with higher cognitive functions and help slow down age-related changes in gray matter.

19.02.2014
Various

Hwang Woo Suk is not drowning

The discredited famous Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk received a patent in the United States for obtaining stem cells by the very method he was convicted of falsifying. Today he clones dogs and dreams of reviving a mammoth.

19.02.2014
Various

Robots for the elderly

In Denmark, a program of assistance to elderly citizens is being implemented at public expense, including their maintenance in nursing homes. And to reduce the costs of this program without reducing the quality, robots are involved.

19.02.2014
Genetics

Gene mixing

An interactive map of the genetic history of the world reveals the secrets of the influence of major historical events on the gene pool of populations.

18.02.2014
Various

Shall we chip in to fight against charlatans in medicine?

The Moscow laboratory "Esculab" (SQLab) has been systematically studying medical charlatans since 2011. Now the laboratory staff decided to summarize their experience in a popular science publication and turned to the now popular crowdfunding experience.

18.02.2014
Cellular technologies

The first bioengineered lungs

American scientists have made a breakthrough in medicine, which in the future may lead to a revolution in transplantology: for the first time, human lungs were grown in the laboratory.

18.02.2014
Genetics

DNA sequencing: cheap or accurate?

A promising method of DNA sequencing based on stretching DNA through a nanopore has not fully justified itself. The data obtained with its help still has to be checked by other sequencing machines.

18.02.2014
Prolonging youth

Anti-aging treatments for muscle stem cells

Aged muscle stem cells can be extracted from the body, rejuvenated in the laboratory and returned back – and after that, almost youthful strength will return to the old muscles.

18.02.2014
Other life sciences

GDNF is a new target for the treatment of parkinsonism

Endogenous neurotrophic factors produced by the body itself, including glial neurotrophic factor (GDNF), contribute to the survival of nerve cells in neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease.

18.02.2014