Life Sciences

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Biomedicine

Estrogen for the mind

Hormonal background affects the intelligence of women: early and long-term use of estrogens during menopause is effective in combating cognitive impairment.

17.10.2019
Genetics

The third "short sleep gene"

Doctors have found another mutation that allows its carriers to sleep for 4.3-5.5 hours a day and get enough sleep.

17.10.2019
Biomedicine

Tranexamic acid against TBI

The results of a major study aimed at improving the treatment of patients with traumatic brain injuries have been published.

17.10.2019
Cellular technologies

Cell therapy of multiple sclerosis

St. Petersburg doctors are reviving the method of treating autoimmune diseases with patients' own stem cells.

17.10.2019
Biomedicine

A lie for salvation

The new drug tricks the immune system into perceiving cancer cells as infected with a virus and destroying them.

16.10.2019
Biomedicine

Cannabis against drugs

Cannabidiol can also help ordinary "nicotine" smokers and, possibly, alcoholics to get rid of their addiction.

16.10.2019
Cellular technologies

Space meat

Why it is important to print meat in space and how it is connected with the modeling of snowballs, donor organs and debts of Roscosmos.

16.10.2019
Genetic engineering

Pig's heart

Genetically modified animals, in whose bodies organs will be grown for transplantation to humans, will appear in Russia in the coming years.

16.10.2019
Biomedicine

Bilactorfin instead of morphine

The new drug relieves pain as effectively as morphine, but is devoid of dangerous side effects, and the risk of overdose is much lower.

16.10.2019
Other life sciences

A new method of bariatrics

The new device allows for effective minimally invasive surgery for the treatment of diabetes and fatty liver disease.

15.10.2019
Genetic engineering

AMD gene therapy: the next successes

Gene therapy can stop the development of a wet form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), one of the most common causes of blindness.

15.10.2019
Other life sciences

Let's take care of the addicts

Scientists and engineers are developing a miniature implant that can track an opioid overdose and inject an antidote.

15.10.2019
Biomedicine

Synthetic medicine

Biologist Vsevolod Belousov – about synthetic biology, its application in medicine and neuron activity management.

15.10.2019
Other life sciences

The Truth about Animated Brains

Last week, many Russian news outlets talked about how "Japanese scientists revived a dead mouse brain."

15.10.2019
Other life sciences

33% over 10 years

Over the period from 2007 to 2017, the age-standardized cancer incidence rate increased for most countries of the world.

15.10.2019
Genetic engineering

Mark and destroy

The new technology helps the immune system to isolate cancer cells "from the crowd" and destroy them with precision.

15.10.2019
Other life sciences

Oxygen roots of cancer

According to Nobel laureate Thomas Lindahl, almost all cases of cancer are the result of natural processes of cell activity.

14.10.2019
Genetic engineering

Cancer gene therapy

The attack on two oncogenes completely freed the experimental mice from tumors and provided them with one hundred percent survival.

14.10.2019
Other life sciences

Pig skin tested on humans

Doctors from the Boston Burn Center managed to use pig skin tissue as an alternative to human skin.

14.10.2019