Life Sciences

Found results: 11545

Biomedicine

Beat your own…

The effect of senolytics on healthy but aging cells in the tumor microenvironment helps to slow down the growth of liver cancer.

27.05.2020
Genetics

Melanoma and Alzheimer's disease

The presence of a variant of the ApoE4 gene – a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease – contributes to the least growth and metastasis of the tumor.

27.05.2020
Genetics

At the molecular level

A group of scientists from the University of Warwick found out how cells activate autophagy genes during fasting.

27.05.2020
Nanotechnology

Two-component probe

The new technique makes it possible to use MRI to detect even very small tumors in normal tissue.

27.05.2020
Biomedicine

Neutralize COVID-19

Chinese scientists have reported successful preclinical trials on primates of monoclonal antibodies neutralizing coronavirus.

27.05.2020
Genetics

Profitable competition

Cells with cancer mutations could take over the entire tissue, but they are hindered by other cells with the same ambitions.

27.05.2020
Other life sciences

Do you have enough vitamin C?

The device glued to the skin of the hand is able to measure the level of vitamin C in sweat, which correlates with its level in the blood.

26.05.2020
Cellular technologies

The brain of an embryo in a test tube

Scandinavian scientists have created organoids from stem cells that mimic the early stages of human brain development.

26.05.2020
Genetics

29 "genes of alcoholism"

19 of them were discovered for the first time, and many are also associated with mental disorders, risky behavior and cognitive abilities.

26.05.2020
Genetics

Sequencing of the metavirome

The metaviralSPAdes algorithm is able not only to find fragments of viral genomes, but also to assemble a ready–made "puzzle" from them - the genome of the pathogen.

26.05.2020
Other life sciences

Noninvasive diagnosis of anemia

An application has been created that allows you to accurately assess the level of hemoglobin in the blood from a picture of the lower eyelid on a smartphone.

25.05.2020
Genetics

"The slimness gene"

Scientists have managed to identify a gene that does not allow you to gain extra weight even with improper nutrition.

22.05.2020
Cellular technologies

To survive until transplantation

Injection of hepatocytes helped the newborn to live up to the age and weight that allow for liver transplant surgery.

22.05.2020
Nanotechnology

Upstream

Controlled microspheres can float through the vessels in any direction, and when they come into contact with cancer cells, they release an anti-cancer drug.

22.05.2020
Nanotechnology

Better than alive

The bionic eye has 46 times more receptors than the human eye, a shorter reaction time, and it can see in the dark.

21.05.2020
Genetic engineering

Medicinal chrysanthemum

The transgenic chrysanthemum variety produces artemisinin molecules – the most effective means for the destruction of malarial plasmodium.

21.05.2020
Other life sciences

Mono- and polyclonal metastases

Medications trigger natural selection among metastatic cells, making them resistant to therapy.

21.05.2020