Life Sciences

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Biomedicine

Protection against resistance

The drug cholestyramine acts as an "anti-antibiotic", reducing the development of resistance to antibacterial drugs.

04.12.2020
Biomedicine

Don't wake up the sleeping cancer

The authors believe that more attention should be paid to controlling stress levels in patients undergoing cancer treatment and after it.

04.12.2020
Other life sciences

Biocompatible stents

Siberian scientists have developed a new technology for manufacturing tubes from biocompatible biodegradable polymers.

04.12.2020
Prolonging youth

Rejuvenation of memory

A new study shows a rapid recovery of cognitive abilities in old mice, accompanied by rejuvenation of the brain and immune cells.

03.12.2020
Other life sciences

PCR on a chip

With the help of a miniature device, tests can be carried out by citizens in the absence of highly qualified medical specialists.

03.12.2020
Genetic engineering

Old mice have rejuvenated their eyes

Reprogramming retinal neurons damaged by glaucoma can somehow return them to a young state without turning them into stem cells.

03.12.2020
Cellular technologies

Cells for cells

Researchers from Moscow State University have developed a method for obtaining a skeleton from donor stem cells for growing patient stem cells on it.

03.12.2020
Cellular technologies

New IVF record

In the USA, a girl was born from an embryo, which was frozen for 27 years. The previous record – 24 years – was set by her sister.

02.12.2020
Other life sciences

Accurate calculation

Artificial intelligence accurately predicts how combinations of different drugs kill different types of cancer cells.

02.12.2020
Other life sciences

The virus has found a loophole

German scientists have found that the SARS-CoV-2 virus enters the brain through nerve cells in the olfactory mucosa.

02.12.2020
Genetic engineering

Macaques cured of immunodeficiency

Scientists from the USA have neutralized the genome of a virus close to HIV in non-human primates, and are ready to proceed to testing the technique on humans.

02.12.2020
Biomedicine

Analysis of intercellular fluid

Interstitial fluid can provide information about metabolic products, diagnostic biomarkers and toxins absorbed through the skin.

01.12.2020
Nanotechnology

The most durable and elastic

The new "electronic skin" can stretch, increasing by 28 times, and can withstand more than 5,000 cycles of deformation

01.12.2020
Other life sciences

Folding in silico

AI has solved a problem that has remained one of the most relevant for biology for about half a century: predicting the tertiary structure of proteins from the primary one.

01.12.2020
Prolonging youth

The "aging gene" of stem cells

When scientists suppressed this gene with the help of short RNA molecules, the cells "rejuvenated" in the same way as under the influence of "Yamanaki factors".

01.12.2020
Prolonging youth

Eternal life without diseases

Lecturer of the Department of Genetics of the Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology of KFU – about the nature of aging and the fight against it.

01.12.2020
Biomedicine

We diagnose everyone

A new test capable of detecting more than 50 types of cancer by blood analysis before the first symptoms appear is being introduced in the UK.

30.11.2020