Life Sciences

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Genetics

Diabetes: new player

According to a study by Japanese scientists, a key role in regulating glucose levels is played by a protein called CNOT3.

28.08.2020
Biomedicine

New blood, new hope

Transfusion of "healthy" blood may protect the brain from the effects of an ischemic stroke.

27.08.2020
Biomedicine

Singapore Bio Glue

Nanyang Technological University has created an analgesic "bio-rubber" with many useful properties.

27.08.2020
Biomedicine

Antidiabetic tandem

The effectiveness of two well-known drugs against type 2 diabetes increases if their molecules are connected by a thermosensitive bond.

27.08.2020
Biomedicine

Do without antibiotics?

One of the promising areas of this work is anti–vitamins, substances that violate the body's ability to use vitamins.

27.08.2020
Biomedicine

Antibodies instead of vaccines

Monoclonal antibodies developed at MassBiologics prevent the coronavirus from entering the body through the mucous membranes.

27.08.2020
Other life sciences

Molecular Bloodhounds

Synthetic proteins recognize target molecules on cancer cells by targeting them with T-lymphocytes, and do not respond to healthy cells.

26.08.2020
Cellular technologies

Cartilage regeneration in vivo

Researchers from Stanford University caused regeneration of articular cartilage cushion in experimental mice.

26.08.2020
Genetic engineering

Um mosquitoes are flying to Florida

Over a few years, more than a billion such mosquitoes have already been released, and no danger to humans and nature has been noticed.

26.08.2020
Biomedicine

Oxytocin against osteoporosis

Experiments on rats have shown that the "hormone of love" contributes to the prevention of osteoporosis and relieves the early symptoms of the disease.

26.08.2020
Cellular technologies

Change of personnel

In experiments on mice, scientists managed to replace non–functioning cellular "cleaners" - the cause of neurodegenerative diseases.

26.08.2020
Genetic engineering

Designer kids

Due to the success of genetics, it begins to seem that soon it will be possible for us to "design" people even before they are born.

26.08.2020
Cellular technologies

The micro-hearts are shrinking

All the main types of cardiac cells were formed in the organoid, as well as structures similar to coronary vessels and chambers of the heart.

25.08.2020
Cellular technologies

Beta Invisibles

American scientists have created organoids that produce insulin and do not cause immune rejection during transplantation.

25.08.2020
Genetic engineering

Approval postponed

The world's first gene therapy for hemophilia has not been released to the market. The developers must confirm the long-term effect of the drug.

25.08.2020
New in Gerontology

"Junk" DNA is a marker of aging

Scientists have discovered that part of the non-coding genetic material can be an important biological marker in the aging process.

25.08.2020
Genetic engineering

Herpes gene therapy

Experimental gene therapy "cuts out" more than 90% of the fragments of the herpes virus genome from infected human cells.

25.08.2020
Genetics

Untangled heterochromatin

Russian biologists have found a mechanism that allows reading genes that are not available under normal conditions.

25.08.2020