Life Sciences

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Other life sciences

From omega to Alpha

Optogenetics, a method of controlling nerve cells using a laser, has helped turn the most timid mice into alpha males capable of regularly winning the competition.

14.07.2017
Genetics

The influenza virus model has been revised

A new study has discovered a way in which different strains of the virus exchange genetic information and thus create new varieties of the disease.

14.07.2017
Cellular technologies

A human heart the size of a rat's

A tiny human heart grown on the collagen skeleton of a rat's heart can be used to test drugs and other treatments.

13.07.2017
Genetics

Check your biological age

Zymo Research has announced the launch of a new service that allows the assessment of biological age using the myDNAge epigenetic test.

13.07.2017
Other life sciences

Silicone Heart

Swiss researchers have developed and tested in the laboratory a silicone heart that contracts almost like the heart of a living person.

13.07.2017
Genetics

The strength of the hands is determined by genes

Researchers from the University of Cambridge on a sample of almost 200 thousand people described the genetic correlate (16 specific variations in genes) of grip strength.

13.07.2017
Other life sciences

Scotch tape in the gas tank

In fact, not a Scottish folk drink was poured into the tank as fuel, but butanol from its production waste – bards, which are used as livestock feed.

13.07.2017
Genetic engineering

Live Flash drive

American scientists recorded a gif image in the form of a genetic code, embedded it in the genome of a bacterium and again counted from the genome with almost no loss of quality.

13.07.2017
Other life sciences

Biopsy under MRI

The smallest robot surgeon is made of plastic, so it can be used in magnetic resonance imaging, which significantly increases the accuracy of sampling.

12.07.2017
Genetic engineering

Resurrection of the virus

Horse pox is safe for humans, is not a serious threat to agriculture and is considered extinct. But the reconstruction of the virus excited both ordinary people and scientists.

12.07.2017
Genetics

Viruses are among us

An excerpt from the book "The Mysterious Human Genome" by biologist Frank Ryan – about HIV, cell infection and the influence of retroviruses on human evolution.

12.07.2017
Other life sciences

Train, don't train…

Which improves cognitive abilities better – "brain simulators" or computer games? Researchers have once again confirmed that both are worse.

12.07.2017
New in Gerontology

The Sleeping Grandmother hypothesis

A new study confirms the importance of age-related changes in sleep patterns: "poorly sleeping grandmothers" increased the safety of a tribe living in the wild.

12.07.2017
Other life sciences

The Mystery of Titin

Scientists from ITEB RAS found out that a giant muscle protein – titin – forms aggregates similar to beta-amyloid. The purpose of these units is still unknown.

12.07.2017
Genetics

Google decided to do genetic research

Google representatives met with representatives of the organization Genomic England, which is engaged in a project to sequence the genome of 100 thousand Britons.

11.07.2017
Biomedicine

Dual-use vaccine

The meningitis vaccine reduced the risk of infection with gonococcus by almost a third. This is the first case of its kind of vaccination that prevents infection with gonorrhea.

11.07.2017
Genetics

How do cancer cells arise?

As a rule, as a result of gene mutations associated with either proliferation (cell division) or apoptosis (programmed cell death).

11.07.2017