Life Sciences

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Biomedicine

Catch up and warn

Every time humanity faces a new infection, three races start simultaneously: for a medicine, a test system and a vaccine.

27.03.2020
Nanotechnology

And the meaning?

A few years after the appearance of the first antisense drug, about a hundred more are at different stages of development.

26.03.2020
Nanotechnology

Antibodies on the conveyor

In the future, a simple and inexpensive technology for the production of synthetic antibodies can be automated.

26.03.2020
Biomedicine

Two new methods

The main task of doctors in the fight against prostate cancer is to distinguish aggressive tumors from those that do not require intensive treatment.

26.03.2020
Nanotechnology

Implants with spikes

Graphite nanoplates on the surface of medical instruments and implants destroy 99.99% of bacteria without harming the patient's cells.

25.03.2020
Genetics

Stress and sperm

Scientists have discovered the mechanism of epigenetic influence of chronic stress through extracellular vesicles on sperm and embryo development.

25.03.2020
New in Gerontology

Let's reveal the secrets of centenarians

Scientists have reprogrammed the cells of a 114-year-old woman in IPSC and plan to compare them with analogues of people of a different age.

25.03.2020
Nanotechnology

Sensor made of crushed graphene

Graphene-based biosensors are capable of detecting ultra-low concentrations of cancer cell DNA molecules in the patient's blood.

25.03.2020
Genetic engineering

Replace antibiotics with bacteriophages

Felix, an American biotech startup, believes that it has found a way to contain the spread of resistant bacterial infections.

25.03.2020
Other life sciences

Fasting is more useful for females

Scientists from the University of Sydney in experiments on mice have shown that fasting can be more useful for the female body.

25.03.2020
Other life sciences

Ultra-sensitive sensor

Russian scientists together with foreign colleagues have developed a fluorescent probe for detecting ultra-low concentrations of hydrogen peroxide.

24.03.2020
Other life sciences

Tooth enamel in the retina

Mineral deposits that cause age-related macular degeneration can accumulate with the participation of calcium-binding protein.

24.03.2020
Other life sciences

The right death

To prevent the immune system from starting unnecessary inflammation, dying cells send messages to the immune system that they are dying according to the rules.

24.03.2020
Nanotechnology

Drown in your own garbage

Nanoparticles selectively destroy cancer cells by blocking the lysosomal waste disposal system.

23.03.2020
Other life sciences

Migration of cancer cells

Scientists have described changes in the structures of the actin cytoskeleton and intercellular contacts that allow cells to break ties with each other.

23.03.2020
Biomedicine

A double blow to the coronavirus

The combination of an antimalarial drug with an antibiotic has shown good results – however, in a small pilot study.

23.03.2020
New in Gerontology

Rapamycin and short telomeres

In mice with short telomeres, rapamycin does not prolong life, as one would expect, but, on the contrary, reduces it.

20.03.2020