Life Sciences

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Other life sciences

Double blow to the brain

The carriage of the APOE e4 allele together with amyloid deposits in the brain contributes to the accumulation of tau protein.

21.11.2022
Genetic engineering

Three out of fourteen

Treatment of one of the forms of Leber's amaurosis with CRISPR-Cas9 slightly improved vision in only a small part of patients.

21.11.2022
Other life sciences

Miraculous healing

A cure for cancer at an inoperable stage is an amazing rarity that happened to a patient named Jan Hilgeman.

21.11.2022
Other life sciences

Biology and neural networks

The leap from the cellular level to the molecular level led to the fact that the IT term "Big Data" came to biology.

21.11.2022
Biomedicine

More efficient and safer

The antitumor drug was made safer for healthy tissues, increasing its effectiveness against cancer cells by an order of magnitude.

18.11.2022
Genetics

Replacement for mice and rats

Reading the genome of the Nilotic grass mouse makes it a full-fledged model organism for biomedical research.

18.11.2022
Biomedicine

Brain Cancer Vaccine

One of the patients who received DCVax after standard glioblastoma treatment is still alive seven years after the disease.

18.11.2022
Cellular technologies

Bone marrow in a test tube

Bone marrow organoids will help to better understand the nature of various oncohematological diseases and find tools for their treatment.

18.11.2022
Other life sciences

The vicious circle of diabetes

Glucose metabolites disrupt insulin synthesis, leading to an increase in glucose levels and an even greater accumulation of its metabolites.

17.11.2022
Other life sciences

Flu and hormones

Infection with the H7N9 avian influenza virus in men, but not in women, is associated with a decrease in total and free testosterone levels.

17.11.2022
Genetics

From dementia to evolution

Candidate of Biological Sciences Denis Andreyuk – on the diagnosis and prevention of Alzheimer's disease and the problems of human evolution.

17.11.2022
Biomedicine

Aptamers for diagnostics

Siberian scientists are developing new aptamer-based test systems for the diagnosis and monitoring of Bekhterev's disease.

17.11.2022
Biomedicine

The ultimate failure

Roche antibodies targeting beta-amyloid aggregates have proven ineffective in Alzheimer's disease.

16.11.2022
Other life sciences

Don't spell it

The new neurointerface recognizes the words that the patient pronounces mentally and directly turns them into understandable text.

16.11.2022
Other life sciences

Get ready for parthenogenesis

If sperm concentrations continue to fall at the current rate, the consequences will become irreversible in the coming decades.

16.11.2022
Biomedicine

Let's protect drug addicts!

A vaccine developed at the University of Houston with the help of antibodies blocks the penetration of fentanyl into the brain, eliminating the euphoria reaction.

16.11.2022
Other life sciences

Microflora of parkinsonics

Researchers from the USA and the UK for the first time studied the metagenome of a large cohort of patients with Parkinson's disease.

15.11.2022
Cloning

Genetics and cloning

Interview with Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Federal Research Center for Animal Husbandry Natalia Zinovieva.

15.11.2022