Life Sciences

Genetic engineering

Successes and challenges

Gene therapy of heart failure, the main cause of death in Barth syndrome, has shown high efficiency, but so far – only in mice.

13.03.2020

Genetics

Not just garbage

Probably, some areas of non-coding DNA are involved in the regulation of genes, while others are genetic garbage.

13.03.2020

Other life sciences

Short- and long-livers

Mankind's envious interest in long-lived species is completely understandable: suddenly it will be possible to learn something that will allow us to live longer.

13.03.2020

Biomedicine

Check the donor stool!

Six patients became ill after intestinal bacteria transplantation. Two of them were cured at home, two more – in the hospital. Two died.

13.03.2020

Nanotechnology

Fast and cheap

Scientists have proposed a simple and effective method for obtaining water-soluble fullerene compounds for use in medicine.

13.03.2020

Biomedicine

The lollipop vaccine

A storage-stable film can revolutionize the process of distributing medicines worldwide.

12.03.2020

Genetics

And the latter will be the first

Scientists believe that the influence of parents, peers, teachers, as well as simple luck are no less important for academic success than DNA.

12.03.2020

Genetic engineering

Gene therapy against clostridium

CRISPR/Cas3 can cope with the destruction of clostridium, a pathogen that causes the development of pseudomembranous colitis.

12.03.2020

Biomedicine

Against all strains

The vaccine containing 4 sections of proteins characteristic of almost all strains of the influenza virus has passed the 2nd phase of clinical trials.

12.03.2020

Nanotechnology

Packaging for container

Peptoid coatings effectively protect DNA origami containers and the molecules loaded into them under various physiological conditions.

12.03.2020

Other life sciences

Help defeat the coronavirus!

To do this, it is enough to install a program to identify targets for drugs at the expense of unused resources of your computer.

11.03.2020

Biomedicine

Anti-cancer duo

A new combination of drugs helps the immune system to find and destroy cancer cells, and also forms a long-term immunity.

11.03.2020

Genetic engineering

Monoclonal antibodies against HIV

The treatment consists in the delivery of antibody genes using an adeno-associated virus as a carrier.

11.03.2020

Biomedicine

"London patient" recovered

The decisive factor, apparently, was the complete replacement of the patient's own T-lymphocytes with donor ones.

11.03.2020

Genetics

The second one is not superfluous

An additional copy of the genome in cancer cells allows them to survive and divide, even if fatal mutations have occurred in the main copy.

11.03.2020

Cellular technologies

"Cocktail 3i" against retinopathy

American scientists have managed to reverse the biological clock of cells and test them on mice with diabetes.

11.03.2020

Other life sciences

Oncothermometer

The device developed in Russia will be able to find malignant tumors and assess the state of the brain in head injuries.

11.03.2020

Biomedicine

The faster, the better

The new generation sequencing technique reduces the time for determining the causative agent of sepsis to 5-6 hours from the moment of taking a blood sample.

10.03.2020

New in Gerontology

The switch of aging

It is possible that the mechanism of depolarization of the inner mitochondrial membrane is a kind of anti-aging program.

10.03.2020

Nanotechnology

Degree of survival

Magnetic hyperthermia is an emerging cancer treatment method in which intense heating causes denaturation of cellular proteins.

10.03.2020