Life Sciences

Found results: 11545

Biomedicine

Double diagnostics

Measurement of amyloid and tau proteins in blood and cerebrospinal fluid makes it possible to detect Alzheimer's disease at the earliest stages.

14.05.2019
New in Gerontology

Portrait of a mysterious killer

What fateful combination of circumstances made Alzheimer's disease our enemy No. 1 and is it a disease in our usual understanding.

14.05.2019
Other life sciences

Tibetan Denisovan

The lower jaw, found in Tibet at an altitude of 3280 meters, belonged to a Denisov man who lived here 160,000 years ago.

14.05.2019
Genetic engineering

Proteins instead of DNA

Any library can be preserved forever in a teaspoon of oligopeptide molecules consisting of different amounts of amino acids.

13.05.2019
Other life sciences

Depression from the colon

The behavior of the rodent subjects became more depressive after they were transplanted feces from rats with anxious behavior.

13.05.2019
Biomedicine

Stop and block

A new approach to the prevention of cancer recurrence, tested on animals, was called lock'n'block (stop and block).

13.05.2019
Genetic engineering

If antibiotics don't help…

Genetically modified bacteriophages have been used for the first time to treat an antibiotic-resistant infection.

13.05.2019
Biomedicine

Against infections and cancer

The peptide antibiotic found by Russian scientists has antibacterial, antifungal and antitumor effects.

13.05.2019
Biomedicine

The circle has closed

After 30 years, a remedy for erectile dysfunction, created as a cure for a number of heart diseases, met the expectations of the creators.

13.05.2019
New in Gerontology

Watch your nose!

Deterioration of the sense of smell may indicate dangerous age-related diseases and an increased risk of death.

30.04.2019
Cellular technologies

Pericytes for muscle regeneration

Injections of cells that support the growth of blood vessels help restore the muscle mass of immobilized muscle cells.

30.04.2019
Other life sciences

Speed up the source

Physicists plan to complete work on the modernization of the neutron source for boron-neutron capture therapy.

30.04.2019
Nanotechnology

Knives for microbes

In an hour, more than half of the bacteria died on the surface covered with hexagonal boron nitride nanoparticles.

30.04.2019
Other life sciences

Microdantists

Controlled by a magnetic field, micro robots remove bacterial films not only from various surfaces, but also inside the dental canals.

29.04.2019
Genetics

Two - faced squirrel

A cancer cell can synthesize several different forms of Mcl-1, one of which blocks apoptosis, and the other, on the contrary, accelerates it.

29.04.2019
Genetics

A new forensic tool

The favorite hobby of American pensioners, home DNA tests, is the main driver of the revolution in criminology.

29.04.2019
Biomedicine

Against colorectal cancer

The first clinical trials of the colon cancer vaccine were successful. The recruitment of participants of the second phase will be held in the fall of 2019.

29.04.2019
Biomedicine

Without spinal puncture

Blood tests can now detect Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases in the early stages.

26.04.2019