Life Sciences

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Genetic engineering

The God games continue

Semi-synthetic bacteria have been taught to synthesize protein based on information encoded in DNA with six bases.

30.11.2017
Other life sciences

Brain, augmented edition

How is scientific research in the direction of "brain-computer" developing now and can interfaces become a reality for ordinary people?

29.11.2017
Other life sciences

Travel in the company

Tumor cells can take bacteria with them on a journey through the blood vessels to help them settle in a new place.

29.11.2017
Genetic engineering

A bright future

You can teach cells to react to light and control them with a flashlight. Let's try to figure out how optogenetics is convenient.

29.11.2017
Other life sciences

Learning to manage entosis

Scientists hope to turn one of the forms of cellular "cannibalism" into a powerful weapon to fight cancer.

29.11.2017
Other life sciences

Cellular tragedies, part 4

We have come to a key event in everyone's life, be it a cell or a person – self-determination and the choice of a life path.

28.11.2017
Prolonging youth

The Source of Eternal Youth (1)

Blood and its derivatives can be used not only in regenerative medicine, but also to reverse the aging process.

28.11.2017
Nanotechnology

Spirulina Robot

Iron-coated spiral cyanobacteria are safe and easily controlled inside the body, promising the creation of micro robots for medicine.

27.11.2017
Genetics

46 is the norm?

Each of us can be a carrier of extra chromosomes. Where do they come from, where do they hide, and what harm (or maybe benefit) do they cause?

27.11.2017
Other life sciences

Avatar Therapy

Therapy was a conversation between the patient, the avatar and the psychiatrist – the latter spoke on his own behalf and voiced the avatar.

27.11.2017
Genetic engineering

Biofactory in the intestine

Genetic engineering is a promising way to modulate the synthesis of certain metabolites by the intestinal microflora and thereby influence immunity.

27.11.2017
Other life sciences

Nitric oxide and stroke

The level of NO (normally necessary, but toxic in excess) in the brain after a stroke was measured by scientists from Russia and Belarus.

24.11.2017
Genetic engineering

Micro-recording devices

Scientists have forced bacterial cells to record the history of changes in the composition of the environment in their own genome.

24.11.2017
Biomedicine

Pancreas from hydrogel

This gel is sensitive to the level of glucose in the blood and independently delivers the necessary dose of insulin into the blood through a catheter.

23.11.2017
Other life sciences

They are recovering

As neuroscientists, "revolutionaries" refuted the dogma that lasted 100 years, which stated that nerve cells do not regenerate.

23.11.2017
Genetics

"Genes of metastases"

A complex of genes that determines the probability of tumor metastasis can be used as a marker of cancer malignancy.

23.11.2017