Life Sciences

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Other life sciences

What are cytokines for?

How viruses get into the body, whether we can protect ourselves from them and how the high temperature helps us.

22.06.2020
Biomedicine

Instead of statins

Controlling the growth of intestinal bacteria can reduce the risk of atherosclerosis – but so far only in mice.

22.06.2020
Biomedicine

10 times more accurate

Advanced liquid biopsy for cancer detection can be ten times more sensitive than existing methods.

19.06.2020
Other life sciences

Trainable biohybrid neurons

The new device can exchange chemical signals with living neurons like synapses in a living organism.

19.06.2020
Genetic engineering

Monkeys with humanized brains

In primate embryos with the human ARHGAP11B gene, the neocortex was thicker and had a large number of furrows and folds.

19.06.2020
New in Gerontology

New marker

By the rate of accumulation of mutations, it is possible to predict how many years a person will live, and in women – to predict the period of fertility.

19.06.2020
Genetic engineering

Inhibition of anticancer lymphocytes

The REGNASE-1 protein is a very powerful and almost the main negative regulator of the anti-cancer cellular immune response.

19.06.2020
Cellular technologies

Magnetic guidance

Retention of stem cells in the lungs with the help of a magnet improves their effectiveness in occupational disease – silicosis.

18.06.2020
Cellular technologies

Bioprinting in situ

A new technique of three-dimensional printing allows you to create artificial tissues directly on the organ in the animal's body.

18.06.2020
Biomedicine

CAR-T Anti-aging

The method of combating senescent cells improved the condition of mice with fibrosis of the lungs and liver, as well as with steatohepatitis.

18.06.2020
Genetic engineering

Made in Siberia

It is assumed that the first stage of clinical trials of the oncolytic virus will begin in the fall and will take a year and a half.

18.06.2020
Genetic engineering

Anti-cancer milk

New Zealand scientists have created genetically modified goats whose milk contains cetuximab, a cancer drug.

18.06.2020
Prolonging youth

How to look for a pill for old age

The development of tablets for old age will take at least decades – more than many researchers and investors can afford.

17.06.2020
Biomedicine

Dexamethasone for severe patients

The popular steroid turned out to be the first effective means of reducing the mortality of coronavirus patients connected to a ventilator.

17.06.2020
Other life sciences

Saved by blood

The method of preventing the growth of blood clots can significantly reduce mortality in severe coronavirus pneumonia.

17.06.2020
Theories of aging

Free radical theory

Excerpt from Polina Loseva's book "Counterclockwise: What is aging and how to deal with it."

17.06.2020
Genetic engineering

Tested on organoids

A new method of gene therapy for retinitis pigmentosa has been tested on a mini-model of the retina of the human eye.

16.06.2020
Genetics

Woe from wit

Biologist Varvara Diakonova – about the DNA shell, behavioral experiments and the price for the mind in animals.

16.06.2020
Genetics

Contagious mutants

The most common mutation increases the contagiousness of the coronavirus from 2.5 to 8 times. It occurs in more than half of the studied strains.

16.06.2020