Life Sciences

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Biomedicine

Anti-flu patch

American scientists have proven the effectiveness of soluble patches as a method of vaccination against influenza. In the near future, this method may replace painful injections.

28.06.2017
Theories of aging

A false trail in the fight against aging?

The fact that there are more senescent cells in the body as we age does not mean that they are the cause of it. And it looks like they may be a false trail.

28.06.2017
Other life sciences

Eyes on magnets

Scientists from University College London and Oxford University implanted a magnetic prosthesis into the eye socket of a patient suffering from nystagmus.

27.06.2017
Cellular technologies

Chimeric patch for the heart

Cardiomyocyte cultures are able to fuse into synchronously contracting tissue, even if they belong to different animals or representatives of different species.

27.06.2017
Genetic engineering

Schizophrenic rats

A line of rats, bred by Novosibirsk scientists, prone to catatonia, depression and involuntary arousal, is used as a model for the study of schizophrenia.

27.06.2017
Other life sciences

Hello, brain! The intestines are bothering!

Scientists from Australia and the USA have discovered that special enterochromaffin cells of the intestine send information about the state of this organ to the nervous system.

27.06.2017
Genetics

How cancer is protected from apoptosis

The secret to the survival of many tumors is that they use the "fifth column" in their own DNA to suppress the work of the cell self-destruction system.

27.06.2017
Other life sciences

Autoimmune Parkinson's disease

An autoimmune reaction to alpha–synuclein contributes to the development of Parkinson's disease, one of the most common age–related neurodegenerative diseases.

26.06.2017
Prolonging youth

Cephalosporin against senile dementia

NSU scientists have studied the effect of ceftriaxone on rats with genetically determined accelerated aging for the correction of cognitive impairment.

26.06.2017
Cloning

Human cloning: difficulties and prospects

Cloning people has become a popular science fiction plot, and we have already despaired of waiting for it to step off the pages and screens into real life.

26.06.2017
Cloning

Test tube calves

New technologies, such as embryo transplantation or cloning, can make it possible to update the herd in a short time, increase the productivity of farm animals.

26.06.2017
Genetics

Sequencing in Siberia

Researchers of the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology SB RAS will take part in an international project on sequencing the genomes of all eukaryotic species.

26.06.2017
Other life sciences

In one quadrillionth of a second

Researchers from ITMO have created a femtosecond camera that allows you to shoot everything that happens inside living cells with great speed.

26.06.2017
Theories of aging

Longevity and fertility

According to one of the ancient hypotheses of the nature of aging, due to some fundamental limitation of their resources, organisms can either live a long time or multiply a lot.

26.06.2017
New in Gerontology

The Killer Chromosome

Do you think it's only men who live less than women? Tell this to the mantis, he will laugh. Although no, he has nothing to laugh at, his head was eaten by a female after intercourse.

23.06.2017
New in Gerontology

Push back the border?

According to the authors of the new study, despite the aging of the world's population, the boundary of old age is moving away, which radically changes demographic forecasts.

23.06.2017
Genetics

Heart disease and sexual selection

Geneticists have uncovered a link between coronary heart disease and the success of procreation, which explains why heart and vascular problems are the main cause of death today.

23.06.2017
Genetic engineering

How GM Viruses Fight Bacteria

At the CRISPR Congress 2017 conference, specialists of biotech companies presented new developments in the field of bacteriophage treatment.

23.06.2017
Genetic engineering

Accordion made of DNA

American biochemists have learned how to weave DNA strands into a kind of "accordion", which one day can be used in biological computers.

23.06.2017