Life Sciences

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Biomedicine

Ready for phase II!

An experimental drug for the treatment of several types of tumors associated with a mutation of the KRAS gene has been approved for further research.

24.12.2019
Genetic engineering

Mechanisms of aging

Why aging occurs, about possible ways to slow it down and what a person can learn from long-lived animals.

24.12.2019
Biomedicine

Against cancer and Alzheimer's

An unexpected property of the BCG vaccine was found among patients with cancer. It turned out that it can prevent the development of dementia.

24.12.2019
Other life sciences

Cancer on a chip

With the help of a tumor on a coin-sized device, testing anti-cancer drugs will become easier and more effective.

24.12.2019
Biomedicine

Analysis for leukemia

A simple blood test will speed up and simplify the diagnosis of blood cancer. It is expected that the cost of the test will be in the range of 50 €.

24.12.2019
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of ALS

Experts believe that the method they developed can be used against other neurodegenerative diseases.

24.12.2019
Genetics

Defective sperm

One in eight couples faces the problem of conceiving a child, and almost a quarter of these cases are "unexplained" male infertility.

23.12.2019
Other life sciences

Will there be no universal vaccine?

The imperfection of our immune system leads to the fact that the body is helpless before new strains of the influenza pathogen.

23.12.2019
Biomedicine

Proteomics for Psychiatry

Tomsk researchers together with colleagues from Moscow managed to make a significant step in the search for biomarkers of schizophrenia.

23.12.2019
Cellular technologies

A new facet of the old medicine

The drug for the treatment of stroke triples the survival rate of stem cells transplanted to rats with spinal cord injury.

20.12.2019
Biomedicine

Help on the skin

The history of vaccinations can be "written" on the skin with invisible ink and read it using a smartphone.

20.12.2019
Biomedicine

A million, a million exosomes

The new method of gene therapy is based on a technology that forces donor human cells to release millions of exosomes with RNA encoding the anti-oncogene protein.

20.12.2019
Genetic engineering

Updated CRISPR

INTEGRATE technology is far superior to traditional CRISPR in both editing accuracy and security.

20.12.2019
Biomedicine

Hypersensitive analysis

A team of researchers from the USA made a liquid biopsy much more sensitive to microRNA molecules.

20.12.2019
Cellular technologies

Brazilian Liver

Organoids printed by researchers from the University of Sao Paulo - "mini-liver– - performs all the typical functions of the liver.

19.12.2019
Other life sciences

Diabetes Profile

The lipid profile of the blood determines the risk of developing type 2 diabetes more accurately than the presence of obesity in a person.

19.12.2019
Biomedicine

Antibiotics don't smell

An international team of scientists has found 79 possible candidates for the role of a killer of bacteria in human stool samples.

19.12.2019
Other life sciences

AI beat oncologists again

Artificial intelligence has found signs of cancer recurrence that were not noticed by humans.

19.12.2019
Genetics

Portrait by gum

Danish scientists have compiled a portrait of an ancient man and microbes from his mouth from the remains of DNA in a petrified gum made of birch tar.

18.12.2019