Life Sciences

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Genetic engineering

Eukaryotic genome synthesis

The creation of an artificial eukaryotic genome is a new international project of Johns Hopkins University. Everyone is invited to participate in the project – there are enough chromosomes for everyone.

22.03.2017
Biomedicine

Spider venom will help treat a stroke

Australian scientists have discovered that a component of the venom of one of the local spiders, Psalmopoeus cambridgei, can prevent the death of nerve cells in ischemic stroke.

22.03.2017
Other life sciences

E-mail instead of a tablet

Electronic counseling (e-Counseling) works no worse than a hypotensive drug: systolic pressure in the experimental group decreased by 10 mmHg.

21.03.2017
Other life sciences

Watson is studying to be a cardiologist

Initially, the technology will be tested in the USA. American doctors will be able to use the services of the cognitive system in a few months this year.

20.03.2017
New in Gerontology

Dementia gives up on education

Among the elderly participants of the Framingham Heart Study program from 1977 to 2008, the incidence of dementia decreased by 20% over 10 years, but only in people with completed secondary education.

20.03.2017
Cellular technologies

Stem cells and neurodegenerative diseases (7)

Three-dimensional cultures and organoids have made it possible to achieve great achievements in reproducing the process of brain development, including complex intercellular interactions.

17.03.2017
Other life sciences

Physical education on the couch

During the procedure, the patient stands, sits or lies on a device with a vibrating platform. The mechanism passes energy through the body, and the muscles contract and relax.

17.03.2017
Biomedicine

The test strip will determine the blood type

Chinese scientists have developed a one-time rapid paper-based test that allows determining a person's blood type and Rh factor with an accuracy of more than 99.9 percent.

17.03.2017
Other life sciences

A new method of storing donor lungs

The cross-circulation platform allows not only to preserve the viability of donor lungs, but also to restore their functional disorders.

16.03.2017
Biomedicine

Ammonia and cardiovascular diseases

A study conducted at the University of Missouri at Columbia has shown that ammonia can play an important role in maintaining the health of the cardiovascular system.

16.03.2017
Genetics

Paanah here…

In the genome of the average resident of Russia, the genes of "indigenous" Russians occupy only the third place after representatives of Western Europe, Belarus and Ukraine.

16.03.2017
Other life sciences

Glowing bacteria will help measure radioactivity

Siberian biophysicists conducted an experimental study of the biological effect of low-dose gamma radiation. The test organism was the luminous bacteria Photobacterium phosphoreum

15.03.2017
Genetics

Cell model helped to find anorexia gene

An international team of scientists has created the first "cellular" model of anorexia nervosa and concluded that the disease is associated with increased expression of the TACR1 gene.

15.03.2017
Genetic engineering

Instead of complete blindness – "chicken"

The removal of the Nrl gene in mice doomed to complete blindness led to the transformation of rods into cone analogues. As a result, the mice lost their night vision, but retained their daytime vision.

15.03.2017