Life Sciences

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Cellular technologies

Egg Incubator

Scientists from the University of Edinburgh have grown full-fledged eggs from immature gametes extracted from the ovaries of female volunteers.

09.02.2018
New in Gerontology

Does Alzheimer's start at 40?

The mechanisms underlying Alzheimer's disease and preceding the accumulation of toxic proteins and brain damage are described.

09.02.2018
Other life sciences

Neurogenesis on video

Swiss and British biologists have seen for the first time how new cells form inside the adult brain.

09.02.2018
Prolonging youth

Push back aging? Quite real

Academician Skulachev believes that prolonging human life is a real task and has already done a lot for this.

08.02.2018
Genetics

The secret of longevity of moths

The molecular mechanism found in bats may be useful for the development of methods for maintaining the health of the elderly.

08.02.2018
Nanotechnology

Modified dolutegravir

One dose of the improved drug suppresses the reproduction of HIV for a month and prevents infection for two weeks.

08.02.2018
Other life sciences

Implanted memory

With the help of an electrostimulator implant, the researchers managed to improve the ability of volunteers to memorize words by 15%.

08.02.2018
Other life sciences

Turn on the light brighter

Dim light makes mice dumber, and flickering with the right frequency cures the Alzheimer's disease model.

08.02.2018
Genetics

The first Britons

According to the results of studies of the skeleton from Gough's cave, it turned out that the first person in Britain was blue-eyed and dark-skinned.

07.02.2018
Other life sciences

Rheumatoid arthritis and germs

For the first time, the association of rheumatoid arthritis with a certain type of bacteria entering the human body from milk or meat was noted.

07.02.2018
Genetics

Ten potential CRISPR competitors

Researchers from the Weizmann Institute have found 10 more sets of bacterial genes with a similar function.

07.02.2018
Cellular technologies

Hair for naked mice

Japanese researchers have mastered a highly productive method of growing germinal hair follicles in a 96-well die.

07.02.2018
Genetics

CRISPR-Cas9: even more precise

Creating a new tool for more precise genome editing will allow you to completely remove defective genes and avoid mutations.

07.02.2018
Biomedicine

Stop neurodegeneration

Restoring energy exchange in the brain preserved the cognitive abilities of mice with Alzheimer's disease.

07.02.2018
Biomedicine

Lactococci for wound healing

The technology consists in using lactic acid bacteria as vectors (deliverers) of chemokine to the damage zone.

06.02.2018
Other life sciences

The diggers are still getting old

Naked diggers are not characterized by replicative aging of cells, and all other types of cellular aging in these animals work.

06.02.2018
Genetics

Secrets of the "dark DNA"

Molecular biologists have linked together several strange stories that have not become clearer from this.

06.02.2018
Nanotechnology

DNA lithography

Combining the DNA origami technique with nanolithography made it possible to obtain metal nanoparticles of a given shape with an accuracy of 1 nm.

06.02.2018