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Other life sciences

Nematodes-diagnosticians

The worm-on-a–chip device is a potential non-invasive tool for diagnosing lung cancer at an early stage.

23.03.2022

Other life sciences

HIV is playing hide and seek

The virus never completely disappears from the body. Instead, it hides in about one in a million immune cells.

23.03.2022

Other life sciences

Unlock the closed brain

A man with the syndrome of a "completely locked person" was able to add words and phrases at a speed of about one character per minute.

23.03.2022

Biomedicine

Chemotherapy + diet

In 2020, clinical studies were launched to study the effects of the ketogenic diet in patients with pancreatic tumors.

23.03.2022

Biomedicine

Promising viruses

Two new bacteriophages can be used to treat enterococcal nosocomial infections.

22.03.2022

Biomedicine

Not only from insomnia

Melatonin is able to significantly reduce the damaging effect of ionizing radiation.

22.03.2022

Other life sciences

Stress or calm

Japanese scientists have discovered a small group of neurons that is crucial for the psychological state.

22.03.2022

Biomedicine

Illumination for the tumor

Hybrid proteins, including a luminescent label, can be used to diagnose cancer using enzyme immunoassay.

22.03.2022

Other life sciences

Against myodystrophy and sarcopenia

Scientists have identified a protein that plays a key role in the properties and development of muscle stem cells.

22.03.2022

Cellular technologies

Bronchi in a test tube

Bronchial organoids can be used to diagnose pathologies of the respiratory system, drug development and basic research.

21.03.2022

Genetic engineering

Bet on a horse

The needs of the global pharmaceutical industry in steroids exceed 1,500 tons per year. The market of medicines produced from them is second only to antibiotics.

21.03.2022

Genetic engineering

Germs under cover

Bacteria covered with a special shell are able to find cancerous tumors and, multiplying in them, produce antitumor toxins.

21.03.2022

Biomedicine

The key to the gate

Scientists from Yale University have developed an antibody that opens one of the receptors in the blood-brain barrier.

21.03.2022

Cellular technologies

Immunity-on-a-chip

Lymphoid follicles grown on a microfluidic chip demonstrate human immune functions and in vitro vaccine response.

18.03.2022

Prolonging youth

Not only against aging cells

Senolytic drugs with oral administration increase the expression of the "youth protein" α-Klotho in mice and humans.

18.03.2022

Biomedicine

Early and differential

Skin biopsy makes it possible to distinguish Parkinson's disease from similar conditions with atypical Parkinsonism at an early stage.

18.03.2022

New in Gerontology

Alzheimer's disease and sleep

Excessive daytime sleep, as it turned out, can lead to the progression of senile dementia.

18.03.2022

Cloning

A new step

An international group of scientists obtained pluripotent stem cells from the skin fibroblasts of the northern white rhinoceros in the naive stage.

17.03.2022

Genetic engineering

Genetics against pests

Oxitec has tested a gene drive technology to combat corn leaf scoops — dangerous pests of agriculture.

17.03.2022

Biomedicine

Vector therapy of cancer

A new photoactive viral vector for targeted therapy of oncological diseases has been developed.

16.03.2022