Life Sciences

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Prolonging youth

Cream with rapamycin

A drug that suppresses the immune system in low doses can slow down skin aging.

28.11.2019
Other life sciences

Ketamine against alcoholism

Researchers from University College London suggest using ketamine to treat addictions, including alcoholism.

28.11.2019
Theories of aging

What does the aging clock show?

A Russian scientist has developed a new theory that fundamentally changes the approach to aging processes and methods of combating it.

27.11.2019
Nanotechnology

Gout is diagnosed by sweat

The wearable device analyzes the composition of sweat and measures the concentrations of various metabolites in it, including uric acid.

27.11.2019
Nanotechnology

Wound Magnet

An unusual way to stop blood loss for a time sufficient to deliver the wounded to doctors, MIT researchers have proposed.

27.11.2019
Genetics

The love of coffee is in my DNA

Variations in the PDSS2 gene determine the rate of caffeine metabolism and, accordingly, a person's propensity to drink coffee.

27.11.2019
Genetics

Obesity is reversible

Animals that hibernate have some kind of internal metabolic switch that allows them to control their obesity.

27.11.2019
Genetics

Smoking and evolution

The longevity of elderly smokers can be provided by the same genes that helped ancient people adapt to the smoke of bonfires.

27.11.2019
Biomedicine

DNA detectors find cancer

Devices made of synthetic DNA can detect cancer with a small number of false positive results.

26.11.2019
Other life sciences

Thirteen in one

The accuracy of determining thirteen types of cancer using the new technology is 99 percent, representatives of Toshiba assure.

26.11.2019
Cellular technologies

Bones from the future

The technology tested on the ISS will make it possible to create organs for transplantation to astronauts on interplanetary expeditions.

26.11.2019
Other life sciences

Diabetes and hormones

Biologist Olga Smirnova – about pancreatic hormones, the importance of insulin and the ratio of type I and type II diabetes.

26.11.2019
Genetics

Cancer DNA has its own laws

Cancer ring DNA accelerates the mutation of cancer cells and makes them more aggressive. This is due to the peculiarities of gene inheritance during division.

25.11.2019
Other life sciences

Touch at a distance

Hugging loved ones via video communication will be possible thanks to a new wireless tactile device.

25.11.2019
Genetics

Genes of the future

A boom in DNA testing of children has begun in China, although from a scientific point of view such tests are no better than fortune-telling on coffee grounds.

25.11.2019
Other life sciences

Is it worth spending money?

Artificial intelligence will help determine which lung cancer patients will benefit from expensive immunotherapy.

25.11.2019
Genetic engineering

Nothing new

What was discussed at the meeting of the international commission on genetic editing of future children.

22.11.2019
Genetic engineering

One more step

The company, which last year released the first drug based on RNA interference, received approval for the second.

22.11.2019
Genetic engineering

Almost 20 years

Bangladesh may become the first country to allow the cultivation of "golden rice", the first article about which was published in 2000.

22.11.2019