Life Sciences

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Genetic engineering

Genes in reserve

The goal of the MitoSENS research program is to create backups of all mitochondrial genes in the cell nucleus.

08.10.2018
Genetics

In search of Health Genes

Professor Evgeny Rogaev – about when the scientific community will be able to defeat death and find the long-awaited "pill for old age".

08.10.2018
Other life sciences

Thanks cousins

Contacts with Neanderthals helped the ancestors of modern man to acquire protection from "Eurasian" viruses.

05.10.2018
Biomedicine

Virus test

All it requires is a drop of blood, a test strip, a digital camera and 20 minutes of waiting.

05.10.2018
Other life sciences

He's not bad!

A new review challenges the half-century-old belief that "bad cholesterol" causes cardiovascular disease.

05.10.2018
Genetics

This is us doing genetics

Who in St. Petersburg studies gene mutations and develops drugs against hereditary diseases.

05.10.2018
Genetic engineering

A genie in a bottle

DARPA's plant genetic modification program can be used to develop a new type of biological weapon.

05.10.2018
Biomedicine

HIV was kicked out of the trenches

The combination of the two drugs helped the monkeys' body get rid of the virus, "entrenched" in their immune cells.

04.10.2018
Other life sciences

Don 't wake up famously

DNA networks that release immune cells during inflammation stimulate the division of "dormant" metastatic cells.

04.10.2018
Other life sciences

Let's smoke, friends…

Cannabis will be grown on the ISS. The experiment should show how microgravity can improve plant cultivation.

04.10.2018
Genetic engineering

Mutation stub

Therapy with antisense mRNA oligonucleotides has led to improved cognitive functions in mice and monkeys with Huntington's disease.

04.10.2018
Other life sciences

Playing God

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of methods for the directed evolution of enzymes, peptide sequences and antibodies.

04.10.2018
Biomedicine

Salmonella + immunotherapy

One of the authors of a paper published in 2014 plans to test the combination of bacterial cancer therapy with immunotherapy.

03.10.2018
Nanotechnology

3D bioprinting with control

"Biochernila" with chemical nanosensors allow you to observe the state of cells in three-dimensional structures.

03.10.2018
Prolonging youth

Fizetin is a candidate for senolytics

Physetin is often found in our food, and is apparently safe. This will allow us to move on to human trials in the near future.

03.10.2018
Biomedicine

Caught red-handed

Researchers have found out how leukemia steals glucose from healthy cells, and found a simple way to restore the disturbed balance.

03.10.2018
New in Gerontology

Mitochondrial DNA and aging

Commentary on a study that showed that weakening of mitochondrial function causes an acceleration of the aging process in mice.

02.10.2018
Biomedicine

Release the dogs from the chain

Details about the works that initiated cancer immunotherapy, the authors of which were awarded the Nobel Prize this year.

02.10.2018