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Biotechnologies - into life

Prices are falling

Chicken grown in a bioreactor has reached price parity with poultry farm meat – a little more than a dollar for 110 g of breast, indistinguishable from the real one.

23.12.2021
Biomedicine

Secrets of stem cells

The nutrient medium in which mesenchymal stem cells were previously grown cured rats of hemorrhagic stroke.

22.12.2021
Other life sciences

What is more important?

T cells play a more important role, compared to antibodies, in the issue of liberation from the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

22.12.2021
Other life sciences

Mice with covid

A mouse model for studying coronavirus infection was proposed by researchers from the Yale University School of Medicine.

22.12.2021
Other life sciences

Glowing antibodies

Fluorescent immunoglobulins are a promising tool for cancer diagnosis due to their high brightness, specificity and stability.

22.12.2021
New in Gerontology

AI anticipates dementia

Artificial intelligence can determine who will develop dementia within two years, with an accuracy of 92%.

21.12.2021
Controversial

Lies, big lies and statistics

Conclusion from the games with numbers: the limit of human life expectancy is at least 130 years, and possibly reaches 180 and even infinity.

21.12.2021
Various

Ten-2021

Seven of the ten major breakthroughs of the outgoing year, according to the journal Science, relate to the life sciences.

21.12.2021
Cellular technologies

Micromuscles on the ISS

Scientists will send muscles into space to study the aging processes of the body.

21.12.2021
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of hearing loss

The first of its kind method of dual gene therapy eliminates severe hearing loss in mice.

20.12.2021
Other life sciences

Is the use of senolytics exaggerated?

Scientists from the Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences have refuted the generally accepted principle of action of drugs against cellular aging.

20.12.2021
Cellular technologies

Lymph nodes in a test tube

The American startup Prellis Biologics presented a platform for the production of lymph node organoids.

20.12.2021
Other life sciences

A new prosthesis from "Motorika"

Motorika, MC FEFU and Skoltech summed up the results of the first stage of the study of the possibility of integrating a bionic prosthetic arm into the body.

20.12.2021
Biomedicine

The target is aged neurons

Removal of toxic senescent brain cells is a potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease.

17.12.2021
Other life sciences

Intravenous cytometer

The device will be able to "view" a significant amount of blood in the patient's body in a few minutes and detect cancer cells in it.

17.12.2021
Other life sciences

Sports Enzyme

Scientists have discovered how sport increases insulin sensitivity, which in turn improves metabolism.

17.12.2021
Prolonging youth

Anti-aging vaccine

Vaccination against senescent cells prevents aging and age-related diseases in mice with a progeria model.

17.12.2021
Other life sciences

Accurate to the millimeter

Scientists of the Krasnoyarsk Scientific Center SB RAS have developed a drug based on aptamers for the detection of cancerous tumors and metastases.

17.12.2021
Cellular technologies

Stomach and coronavirus

Studies on organoids have shown that the infection affects the stomach of a child more actively than an adult and an intrauterine fetus.

16.12.2021