Life Sciences

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Nanotechnology

Gel with platelets

The new hydrogel helps to stop internal bleeding and allows you to observe the process of vessel restoration in real time.

28.12.2020
Biomedicine

Cancer Mitochondrial Blocker

Blocking gene expression in mitochondria causes cancer cells in mice to starve to death.

28.12.2020
Genetics

Disease in the blood

Which oncohematological diseases are considered rare, how and from whom they are diagnosed and what treatment is prescribed to patients.

28.12.2020
Genetics

Live longer and die of cancer?

Due to a mutation in the gene of the TIN2 protein, it ceases to control telomerase, which awards chromosomes with too long tails.

28.12.2020
Genetic engineering

Genome in editing mode

About the significance of the discovery awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, about the ethical challenges facing modern genetics and synthetic biology.

28.12.2020
Prolonging youth

Rejuvenated, but not quite

Japanese scientists have only partially rejuvenated the stem cells of adult mice in the body of younger individuals.

25.12.2020
Genetics

Natural smokers

Scientists have identified seven genetic "fingerprints" that either protect against the development of cancer, or, conversely, increase its likelihood.

25.12.2020
Biomedicine

Bacteria, stop!

Specialists of the Vistar Institute have developed new antimicrobial drugs – double-acting immuno-antibiotics.

25.12.2020
Biomedicine

Breast cancer: a new target

Regulatory RNAs are involved in the movement of cancer cells, and the destruction of these RNAs prevents the metastasis of breast cancer in mice.

24.12.2020
Genetic engineering

Mice were protected from hearing loss

Scientists from Israel have developed an innovative method for the treatment of deafness based on the delivery of a "healthy" gene to the cells of the inner ear.

24.12.2020
Other life sciences

Vindictive lymphocytes

B-lymphocytes in the blood of patients who have had COVID-19 retain the memory of its proteins for at least eight months.

24.12.2020
Nanotechnology

Only in the right place

German scientists have developed nanoparticles that emit a cargo of drugs exclusively inside cancer cells.

24.12.2020
Biomedicine

Against fats and covid

The drug to reduce the level of fats in the lungs provided zero mortality in patients with COVID-19, and most recovered in a matter of days.

23.12.2020
Other life sciences

Blood test 24/7

Stanford researchers have developed a “Real-time ELISA” device that provides continuous monitoring of blood chemistry.

23.12.2020
Theories of aging

Digger's Recipe

Aging has many faces, it manifests itself in different ways, there is no one definition for it yet. That does not prevent you from studying it.

23.12.2020
New in Gerontology

Is it about DNA methylation?

Scientists have come closer to unraveling the different life spans of men and women.

23.12.2020
Biomedicine

Gender matters

One of the treatments for Alzheimer's disease, tested on a mouse model, helps males and is ineffective in females.

22.12.2020