Life Sciences

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Other life sciences

New HIV reservoir

Molecular biologists have discovered a third type of immune cells in which the immunodeficiency virus can hide indefinitely.

18.10.2017
Other life sciences

Pancreas from Harvard

The next clinical trials of the artificial "pancreas" were successful.

18.10.2017
New in Gerontology

Friend and foe

Depending on the conditions, the protein product of the TREM2 gene contributes to the development of Alzheimer's disease or protects the brain from damage.

17.10.2017
Genetics

Biotechclub–2017

Hereditary diseases, gene therapy and editing of the human genome were among the main topics of the conference "Biotechclub–2017".

17.10.2017
Genetic engineering

Controlled evolution

The term "genetically modified organism" implies that the genome of an object has been changed. How and why is it changed?

17.10.2017
Other life sciences

How long do I have to live

The mtDNA copy number is a new biomarker capable of accurately predicting the risk of sudden death from cardiac arrest for 10 years or more.

17.10.2017
Genetic engineering

Buy Arctic apples!

Arctic Apples, which do not change color in the air, will be available to buy in 400 supermarkets in the United States in November 2017.

17.10.2017
Other life sciences

Cancer and glycolysis

New data on the Warburg effect in the future may allow more purposefully "starving" sick cells.

17.10.2017
Other life sciences

Tip of the iceberg

Carbapenem resistance genes in non–pathogenic bacteria are just the beginning. If they (and many that have not yet been discovered) are transmitted to pathogenic microbes…

16.10.2017
Nanotechnology

Nanoteranostics and nanosecurity

One of the main participants of the symposium "Engineering and Physical technologies of biomedicine" - about innovations in the field of nanoteranostics.

16.10.2017
Theories of aging

KLF protein and aging

An increase in the concentration of proteins of one of the families of transcription factors increases the life expectancy of roundworms and mice.

16.10.2017
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of Leber's amaurosis

The FDA Advisory Committee recommended approving a method of gene therapy for a disease that inevitably leads to complete blindness.

16.10.2017
Other life sciences

The smell of a woman

Researchers from Bern decided to find out whether the main histocompatibility complex of women affects men's preference for female odors.

16.10.2017
Biomedicine

HIV CAR therapy was tested on mice

The successful completion of the experiments opens the way for the clinical application of HIV CAR therapy in the near future.

13.10.2017
Other life sciences

Proteins in hydrogel

Hydrogels from modified DNA can be used to store and work with a large number of different proteins.

13.10.2017
Biomedicine

Peptides against painful addiction

SPbPU scientists proposed to block the system of adaptation of bacteria to antibiotics with the help of peptide inhibitors.

13.10.2017
Genetics

New "deafness genes"

The genetic "knockout" helped to identify 52 previously unknown genes in mice, whose malfunctions can cause hearing loss.

13.10.2017
Cellular technologies

Totipotent cells

British biologists have received a culture of stem cells with expanded potency (Expanded Potential Stem Cells, EPSCs).

13.10.2017
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of glaucoma

The CRISPR/Cas9 system was used to correct the mutation that causes glaucoma in mice, as well as in the culture of human retinal tissue cells.

12.10.2017