Life Sciences

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Other life sciences

Analysis for old age

The content of a new biomarker in the urine determines the biological age and risk of age-related diseases and predicts the time of death.

28.02.2018
Cellular technologies

Spinal Cord Restoration

Regeneration was achieved by implanting the progenitor cells of neurons into the site of injury.

28.02.2018
Genetics

Common diseases

The patterns found in the database of human DNA mutations turned out to be applicable to the genes of cows and other animals.

27.02.2018
Biomedicine

Find and destroy

Scientists have proposed a new way to search for cancer stem cells. This will help to develop tactics to combat cancer relapses and metastases.

27.02.2018
Biomedicine

"Trojan horse" for cancer

Employees of the University of California have proposed a clever way to stop cancer metastasis.

27.02.2018
Genetic engineering

CRISPR/Cas on video

In a short video, scientists and 3D animators clearly show the work of the most modern genomic editing system.

27.02.2018
Biomedicine

Cancer cells can be aged

The growth of melanoma can be stopped if the enzymes responsible for removing epigenetic marks on DNA are blocked.

27.02.2018
Other life sciences

Deep look

Luminescence, a thousand times enhanced in comparison with natural luciferase and luciferin, allowed us to look inside the body.

27.02.2018
New in Gerontology

How Late Fatherhood Harms Children

The mice from older fathers showed signs of aging more strongly, and they lived 2 months less than their peers from young males.

27.02.2018
Biomedicine

Exosomes will help with a stroke

The new treatment method involves the use of extracellular vesicles, or exosomes, isolated from stem cells.

26.02.2018
Nanotechnology

Boron combined with silver…

For use in antitumor therapy, nanohybrids are modified by "sewing" to the surface of folic acid.

26.02.2018
Nanotechnology

To re-educate the immune system

The drug, which is delivered using nanoparticles, can cure food and other types of allergies, for example, pollinosis.

26.02.2018
Other life sciences

Dementia after a stroke

The toxic effect of brain tissue damaged after a stroke on healthy neurons has been proven.

22.02.2018
Prolonging youth

Rejuvenating Tet2

Experiments on mice helped to find a protein that increases the health and performance of the old brain when transfusing "young" blood.

22.02.2018
Other life sciences

Mitoptosis by metastases

Researchers have described a new mechanism of cancer cell death associated with the destruction of mitochondria.

22.02.2018
Cellular technologies

Hydrogel Muscles

Specialists from Australia have developed a 3D material that promotes rapid and high-quality recovery of muscle tissue.

22.02.2018
Other life sciences

Obesity – in the head

The answer to the cause of obesity lies in the cells of the hypothalamus, synthesizing the precursor of the hormone that regulates appetite.

22.02.2018
Genetic engineering

How to fix a person

The CRISPR/Cas9 system allows genetic modification of any organisms with very high accuracy.

22.02.2018
New in Gerontology

Epigenetics and the aging clock

Review of current data on the "Horvath clock" linking DNA methylation with biological and chronological age.

21.02.2018