Life Sciences

Found results: 11545

Other life sciences

Sex and violence

The neurons involved in the formation of sexual and aggressive behavior in males are woven into one tangle, and in females they are separated into two separate groups.

19.09.2017
Prolonging youth

The work of the drowning themselves

We must do everything possible to develop effective aging therapy as soon as possible. Because otherwise our parents won't live to see such therapy.

19.09.2017
Other life sciences

For lack of a stamp…

Whether the fossil species of hominins, in whose bones DNA has decomposed, belong to the ancestors of man, can be understood by analyzing polysaccharides – glycans.

19.09.2017
Biomedicine

AQ-13 against malaria

Researchers have managed to create a new drug to combat resistant strains of malaria plasmodium, the causative agent of malaria.

19.09.2017
Genetics

The gene of a happy old age

When analyzing a huge database of life-shortening mutations, suspiciously few were found. Perhaps because they are swept away by natural selection.

18.09.2017
Prolonging youth

How to Beat Aging

Over the past decades, many different approaches have been proposed, and all of them are united only by how ineffective they are.

18.09.2017
Nanotechnology

Multicolored melanin

Structures consisting of melanin and silicon oxide nanoparticles can create any conceivable shade of color that does not degrade over time.

18.09.2017
Nanotechnology

Patch instead of liposuction

The mass of fat on the side of the abdomen where the patch was glued was reduced by 20% just four weeks after the start of the experiment.

18.09.2017
Cellular technologies

Three-dimensional bone fragments

The new technology of "nanopinks" (nanokicking) allows to grow three-dimensional samples of mineralized bone tissue from mesenchymal stem cells.

15.09.2017
Biomedicine

Phage therapy

A return to phage therapy on a new scientific basis is also considered as an addition and alternative to existing antibiotics.

15.09.2017
Nanotechnology

"Paper" test for tuberculosis

The researchers suggest using a simple test: it is enough for the patient to moisten a paper strip with saliva, which will then change color.

15.09.2017
Other life sciences

Microbes interfere with cancer treatment

Scientists have discovered that the bacteria that often accompany pancreatic cancer allow the tumor to survive by destroying chemotherapy drugs.

15.09.2017
Nanotechnology

One injection instead of several

Depending on the composition, polymer microcapsules are destroyed at different times, releasing the next dose of the drug inside the patient's body.

15.09.2017
Other life sciences

Again, the microflora is to blame

Two articles in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences linked the initiation of multiple sclerosis with the gut microbiota.

15.09.2017
Nanotechnology

Nanoclader

In 24 hours, one robot successfully sorted six DNA molecules on a 58×58 nm substrate with fluorescent labels of two colors "sewn" to them.

15.09.2017
Other life sciences

Nice correlation

For people who can boast of sexual activity in adulthood and old age, intellectual difficulties are less characteristic.

14.09.2017
Nanotechnology

Stars for Oncology

Inexpensive and non-toxic gold nanostars will make it possible to effectively diagnose cancer in the early stages and to burn out the affected cells point-by-point.

14.09.2017