Life Sciences

Other life sciences

Ageless satellite cells

A subgroup of stem cells retains the ability to regenerate skeletal muscles until old age.

29.10.2020

Other life sciences

Long-lived slave owners

The abducted cubs of naked diggers do not reproduce and work all their lives for individuals who are not related to them.

29.10.2020

Genetic engineering

Yeast vs. clostridium

GM yeast is capable of producing antibodies that neutralize clostridium toxins and rid experimental mice of dangerous enterocolitis.

29.10.2020

Other life sciences

Selection of optimal treatment

DrugCell artificial intelligence system predicts possible reactions of cancer cells to treatment based on detailed tumor data.

29.10.2020

Biomedicine

Block the way for metastases

German researchers have discovered an antibody that causes the death of lymphatic vessels in malignant tumors of mice.

29.10.2020

Cellular technologies

Lung diseases in vitro

Respiratory tract stem cells were grown from the patients' blood cells. In the future, it will help cure COVID-19, asthma, cystic fibrosis.

28.10.2020

Biomedicine

Individual recipe

Scientists have identified blood biomarkers that can predict a patient's reaction to drugs for arthritis.

28.10.2020

Other life sciences

Safe radiotherapy

FLASH-RT therapy allows you to deliver the same dose of radiation as usual, but in just tenths of a second due to high power.

28.10.2020

Other life sciences

Brain, heal yourself

A newly discovered subtype of immature neutrophils can stop the death of neurons and even restore connections between them.

28.10.2020

Genetics

Keep your testicles in the cold

American scientists, when heating C.elegans nematodes, found a significant increase in the frequency of DNA damage in their spermatocytes.

28.10.2020

Biomedicine

Instead of transplantation

Exposure to certain liver cells and the intestinal microbiome can improve the condition of acute liver failure.

28.10.2020

Genetic engineering

Get out of your comfort zone!

The complex of RNA molecules contributes to the leaching of leukemic stem cells from the tumor niche and their death.

27.10.2020

Other life sciences

Coronavirus and stem cells

SARS-CoV-2, unlike viruses that cause only mild acute respiratory viral infections, is able to infect the stem cells of the pulmonary epithelium.

27.10.2020

Other life sciences

Antibodies disappear quickly

Over time, the proportion of the population with antibodies decreases, and the elderly and those who suffered from COVID-19 asymptomatically lose them the fastest.

27.10.2020

Genetic engineering

Repaint the adipocytes

The researchers disrupted the sequence of the gene suppressing thermogenesis in the white fat cells of mice and turned them into brown fat cells.

27.10.2020

Biomedicine

Escape from cancer

The study showed that cytotoxic T-lymphocytes mediate exercise-induced slowing of tumor growth.

27.10.2020

Genetics

Sticky Alzheimer's

A mutation in the MARK4 protein gene makes its structure stickier, which is why it is more likely to accumulate in the brain.

27.10.2020

Biomedicine

Helps mice…

A vaccine for the treatment and prevention of lung, intestinal and pancreatic cancer has shown efficacy in mice.

26.10.2020

Cellular technologies

Lungs in a test tube

Live human alveoli grown in the laboratory will help accelerate Covid-19 research.

26.10.2020

Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of retinitis pigmentosa

Biologists have embedded a light-sensitive protein gene into the retinal neurons of blind mice and restored their vision.

26.10.2020