Life Sciences

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Other life sciences

Tonometer with glasses

Microsoft's Glabella project is going to keep a finger on the pulse of patients using a tonometer built into the eyeglass frame.

04.09.2018
Genetic engineering

Embryo gene therapy: a new step

Biologists have edited the DNA of human embryos, ridding them of a severe hereditary disease – Marfan syndrome.

04.09.2018
Biomedicine

A cure for brain shrinkage

The new drug effectively slows down brain shrinkage in patients with multiple sclerosis.

03.09.2018
Genetics

Let's go here…

Half of the inhabitants of the Swedish city of Sigtuna, who lived in the Viking age and whose remains were analyzed by researchers, turned out to be visitors.

03.09.2018
Nanotechnology

Polymer tendons

The rats' body accepted the implant, and experiments with human tissue cells in vitro also show promising results.

03.09.2018
Genetics

Genome in 3D

Molecular biologists from the USA have received the first detailed three-dimensional map of the human genome.

03.09.2018
Nanotechnology

Virus-nanotechnology

Scientists have created a genetically modified strain of the virus that creates hollow nanoconstructions of balls and spikes out of gold.

03.09.2018
Other life sciences

Immunity Memory

Scientists have discovered a new "micro-organ" that provides the immune system's response to re-infection with an already known infection.

03.09.2018
Genetics

Dashing Detective

Genetic tests allow you to find out about your origin and find unknown or lost relatives.

03.09.2018
Genetic engineering

Universal Blood

Enzymes of the intestinal microflora are able to remove agglutinogens from the surface of red blood cells, turning the blood of any group into the first.

31.08.2018
Nanotechnology

Nanoantibiotic

Nanoparticles that emit reactive oxygen species under the influence of light kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

31.08.2018
Genetic engineering

Bacterial video

Italian researchers have created a screen in which the image is formed with the help of photosensitive bacteria and a projector.

31.08.2018
Biomedicine

Antiviral viruses

Pathogens of one respiratory tract disease are used against the pathogen of another, similar ailment.

31.08.2018
Other life sciences

Waves of death

Apoptosis begins with the cell receiving a signal to start "suicide" and gradually covers the entire cell, destroying it.

31.08.2018
Prolonging youth

Switch gears

The researchers were able not only to stop, but also to reverse the aging process – by returning human cells back to their "young" state.

30.08.2018
Other life sciences

Brains – aside

You can delay death by uploading a person's consciousness into a computer or by connecting the brain to an artificial neural network during life.

30.08.2018
Genetics

The Resurrected Anti - Oncogene

The pseudogene, which has returned to activity, provides increased resistance of elephants to the development of malignant tumors.

29.08.2018
Genetic engineering

Genes, be silent!

The first drug using RNA interference to "jam" the expression of certain genes has been approved in the USA.

29.08.2018