Life Sciences

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Genetics

You can't draw a portrait based on DNA

Detective leitmotif: DNA analysis from the crime scene allows you to instantly identify the perpetrator. How far is it really from reality?

13.09.2017
Genetics

Northern genes

Versions of genes that help to survive in the conditions of the Far North will reveal the roots of diseases associated with metabolic disorders.

13.09.2017
New in Gerontology

Programmed aging

Scottish geneticists have found in human DNA a kind of "program" of brain aging that controls its development throughout life.

12.09.2017
Biomedicine

Melanoma: targeted and immunotherapy

Researchers from Australia have discovered a new combination of treatments that can stop the world's deadliest form of skin cancer.

12.09.2017
Other life sciences

Beta-amyloid in high resolution

A group of German scientists published the structure of the β-amyloid fibrillae – the main component of amyloid plaques – with a resolution of 0.4 nm.

12.09.2017
Other life sciences

Treatment of alcoholism: a new target

Scientists hope that the discovery of the molecular pathway of alcohol addiction formation will allow developing new methods of its treatment.

12.09.2017
Cellular technologies

Measure it seven times

If the results obtained by Mitalipov's group are really contradictory, then such manipulations seem extremely risky.

12.09.2017
Cellular technologies

Direct reprogramming

Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis were able to turn skin cells taken from healthy adults directly into motor neurons

11.09.2017
Cellular technologies

The third is not superfluous

Recently, the news flew around the world: the first "child from three parents" was born. Why do we need this technology, and is this the first child with a third parent?

11.09.2017
Nanotechnology

Magnetotactic bacteria

Microbes accumulating particles of iron compounds in the cytoplasm were "armed" with liposomes with an antitumor drug and sent to the center of the tumor.

11.09.2017
Biomedicine

So as not to cut off the excess

Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin have developed a device that, when touching tissue, distinguishes a healthy area from a tumor area in 10 seconds.

08.09.2017
Genetics

The new "porphyria gene"

In addition to the ferrochelatase enzyme, "vampire disease" can cause the ClpX protein, mutations in the gene of which disrupt hemoglobin synthesis and cause photophobia.

08.09.2017
Other life sciences

Not a gram of carbohydrates

The cyclic ketogenic diet reduced mortality in mice in middle age and improved cognitive abilities in older animals.

08.09.2017
Biomedicine

A label for a brain tumor

The fluorescent dye makes it possible to distinguish pituitary adenoma cells from healthy ones during the operation, which significantly reduces the risk of recurrence.

08.09.2017
Genetic engineering

CAR-T: Obstacle Race

Novartis wins the race – last week the regulator approved the company's gene therapy for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

07.09.2017
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of choroideremia

Treatment of progressive blindness involves virus-vector delivery of recombinant DNA developed for the synthesis of a functioning REP-1 gene.

07.09.2017