Life Sciences

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Nanotechnology

Genotoxic nanotubes

Experiments conducted on laboratory mice have revealed DNA disorders that can lead to long-term toxic effects.

22.07.2020
Nanotechnology

Exhale the diagnosis

Nanoparticles with synthetic peptides can be used for rapid diagnosis of pneumonia and other lung diseases.

21.07.2020
Biomedicine

T-cell immunity

Specific T-cell immunity to SARS-CoV-2 exists both in patients with COVID-19 and SARS, and in uninfected people.

21.07.2020
Other life sciences

Forget about morphine

Neuroscientists cured experimental mice of drug addiction by blocking drug-related memories in their brains.

21.07.2020
Nanotechnology

Direct Introduction

A new method of surgical injection of "smart" nanoparticles carrying therapeutic agents directly into lung tumors has been developed.

20.07.2020
New in Gerontology

Two ways of aging

Aging is a programmable decision–making process, not just an accumulation of harmful changes.

20.07.2020
Genetics

ECO by Science

Biologist Denis Rebrikov – about chromosomes, orphan hereditary diseases and preimplantation screening.

20.07.2020
Theories of aging

Everything according to plan

The search for an aging program has reached the next stage of development: even if it does not exist, it will have to be invented and launched.

20.07.2020
Other life sciences

Mitochondria and Huntington's disease

Due to a mutation that is associated with a genetic disease of the nervous system – Huntington's disease – the mitochondria are disrupted.

20.07.2020
Cellular technologies

A working 3D heart

The new chamber pump, created using 3D printing, consists of living heart cells and extracellular matrix proteins.

17.07.2020
Biomedicine

The result, but preliminary

Many (including the researchers themselves) believe that it is too early to rejoice: at any moment, the "Sao Paulo patient" may relapse.

17.07.2020
Genetics

Mini-Cas

The CasΦ protein isolated from bacteriophages acts as precisely as Cas9, but it is about half as small.

17.07.2020
New in Gerontology

Loci of longevity

The study of genomic loci helped to find a potential key to slowing down aging, as well as a long and healthy life in general.

17.07.2020
Cellular technologies

Therapy of Evil

How mitochondrial diseases not only did not become the first achievement of gene therapy, but also remained the last bastion not taken at all.

17.07.2020
Other life sciences

Reactivation of the kidney

The functions of donor kidneys can be restored before transplantation with the help of cell therapy.

16.07.2020
Biomedicine

A tablet for you personally

A unique computer program allows you to choose individual treatment for patients with arterial hypertension.

16.07.2020
Genetics

Decryptor for viruses

A new development of the Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology of St. Petersburg State University, called coronaSPAdes, allows you to collect the genomes of RNA viruses.

16.07.2020
Nanotechnology

Vaccines from blood

A new technology using red blood cells as a delivery vehicle generates targeted immune responses in mice.

15.07.2020