Life Sciences

Found results: 11545

Biomedicine

Moss instead of cannabis

Unlike tetrahydrocannabinol, perrottetinene has a minor psychoactive effect on the brain.

26.10.2018
Genetic engineering

Cellular pharmaceutical factories

Biological systems will produce the necessary compounds much more efficiently than production lines for chemical synthesis.

26.10.2018
Biomedicine

Twice as fast

American scientists have created a gel that doubles the speed of tightening cuts and other wounds, and successfully tested its work on mice.

26.10.2018
Biomedicine

Breakthrough therapy

The issue of approving the treatment of depression with psilocybin will now be considered in a simplified manner.

26.10.2018
New in Gerontology

Arteries and the risk of dementia

Loss of arterial elasticity is a serious risk factor for the development of dementia in older people.

25.10.2018
Other life sciences

Nerve-on-a-chip

The new nerve-on-a-chip platform opens up new prospects for using chips to improve the results of neuroprosthetics.

25.10.2018
Biomedicine

Deceive evolution

One of the world's leading experts in the biology of aging – about the first results of human trials of senolytics.

25.10.2018
Biomedicine

Keep amyloid away from neurons

A drug that prevents the attachment of amyloid plaques to neurons prevents extensive death of brain cells.

25.10.2018
Genetic engineering

The Digger gene

Scientists have extended the life of mice and improved their physical condition in old age by inserting one of the genes of naked diggers into their DNA.

25.10.2018
Cellular technologies

Recover after radiotherapy

Specially grown hematopoietic stem cells helped mice recover faster from bone marrow irradiation.

25.10.2018
Biomedicine

Ocean in a drop

The new test finds all 307 known bacterial pathogens and all their particularly dangerous varieties in a drop of blood or saliva.

24.10.2018
Prolonging youth

One hundred secrets of a long life

Journalists conducted a survey of 100 people who are over 100 years old to find out what they consider the secret of their longevity.

24.10.2018
Other life sciences

Revolution in medicine and biology

The method of monomolecular fluorosequencing allows millions of individual protein molecules to be sequenced simultaneously.

24.10.2018
Genetics

5 things that define genes

How genes determine the amount of alcohol consumed, why early stress affects our behavior all our lives…

24.10.2018
Biomedicine

Immunotherapy against breast cancer

Encouraging news about the prolongation of the life of patients with aggressive breast cancer as a result of immunotherapy.

24.10.2018
Other life sciences

Extra calories are bad for the kidneys

Limiting the number of calories not only improves the health of the heart and blood vessels, but also significantly reduces the risk of kidney problems.

24.10.2018
Prolonging youth

Rejuvenating cocktails

The combination of three drugs made it possible to double the life expectancy of nematodes and fruit flies by 80%.

24.10.2018
Other life sciences

He is his own pulmonologist

A startup from ITMO has created a "smart stethoscope". Machine learning will help ordinary people monitor lung health.

24.10.2018
Genetics

Antidiabetic mutation

Scientists have discovered a mutation associated with a reduced risk of diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular diseases.

23.10.2018