Life Sciences

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Biomedicine

Metformin for the heart

The antidiabetic drug metformin reduces myocardial rigidity in heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction.

14.02.2019
Other life sciences

Heart with wireless charging

The world's first operation to implant a mechanical heart pump charged from a wireless network was successful.

14.02.2019
Other life sciences

Useful grandmothers

Finnish and Swedish scientists have once again confirmed the "hypothesis of grandmothers," according to two articles published in Current Biology.

14.02.2019
Genetics

DNA is not a verdict

An excerpt from Stephen Heine's book is about how to understand the results of genetic tests and news about the genes of thinness, depression, crime.

13.02.2019
Other life sciences

Immunity Switch

microRNA-142 controls T cells regulating the immune response, thereby preventing autoimmune diseases.

13.02.2019
Other life sciences

Anti-stroke protein

The researchers hope that their discovery will form the basis of a drug that will help combat the negative consequences of stroke.

13.02.2019
Other life sciences

Choose who you want

Russian molecular biologists compared the performance of two of the most popular extracellular DNA analysis systems, DSPVK and CNAK.

12.02.2019
New in Gerontology

Harmful old ladies

Mobile elements awakened in the DNA of old cells activate antiviral protection with accompanying inflammatory signals.

12.02.2019
New in Gerontology

Running from dementia

During physical activity, the peptide hormone irisin is released into the blood, stimulating the growth of neurons in the hippocampus.

12.02.2019
Theories of aging

What Worms Know about Aging

A unified model of metabolic flow in the worm C.elegans allowed us to study the relationship between metabolism and aging processes.

11.02.2019
Other life sciences

The Secret of rheumatoid arthritis

Activation of AMP-dependent kinase in T-helpers helps to cope with joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis.

11.02.2019
Other life sciences

Escort service

Another mechanism of involuntary help to cancer from the immune system: an escort of neutrophils helps cancer cells to metastasize.

11.02.2019
Other life sciences

Regeneration of fingers

Researchers have discovered two proteins that may partially stimulate the growth of amputated fingers in mice.

11.02.2019
Genetics

Devil's Lawyers

Not everyone in the scientific community agrees that the propensity for violence can be reduced solely to genetics.

11.02.2019
Biomedicine

Trojan for cancer

A new Trojan horse cancer treatment method has shown good results with several types of tumors.

11.02.2019
Theories of aging

Autophagy and aging

The mechanism of autophagy – the processing of damaged or unnecessary structures and molecules in cells – is involved in almost every aspect of aging.

08.02.2019
Nanotechnology

Syringe for oral administration

The nanocapsule-"syringe" allows you to inject insulin and other unstable substances into the body through the stomach.

08.02.2019
Nanotechnology

Rockets with a vaccine

An oral vaccine with "jet engines" of magnesium microparticles stimulates the immune response in the intestine.

07.02.2019
Cellular technologies

Rats with mouse kidneys

Perhaps the technique developed by Japanese scientists will allow growing human kidneys in animal organisms.

07.02.2019