Life Sciences

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Cellular technologies

When will we grow a new liver

How human organs are "grown" in the laboratory, whether they will be able to replace donor ones, when such technologies will become massively available and what mini-organs are needed for.

20.01.2017
Genetic engineering

An electric switch of gene activity has been created

Scientists believe that due to its simplicity and variability, this design can find application in the medical field and in the field of biotechnology within a couple of years.

20.01.2017
Cellular technologies

Gut organoid, turned inside out

In addition to stem cells from the material left over from artificial insemination procedures, induced pluripotent stem cells were used in organoid cultivation.

19.01.2017
Other life sciences

Soft robot sleeve will help the heart to pump blood

An international group of scientists has developed and successfully tested an implantable soft robotic device on animals, which, by hugging the heart, promotes its contractions.

19.01.2017
Genetic engineering

Web from a bioreactor

The researchers obtained 1,000 meters of spider fiber from a liter flask with GM bacteria. Its only drawback is that it is less durable than the natural prototype.

19.01.2017
New in Gerontology

We sit and grow old

The telomeres of women who sat 10-13 hours a day, on average, were 170 "letters" shorter than normal, which corresponds to about 9 years of additional biological age.

19.01.2017
Other life sciences

Smartphone taught to genetically diagnose cancer

The new system makes it possible to detect mutations associated with certain types of cancer with an accuracy almost equal to stationary laboratory equipment.

18.01.2017
New in Gerontology

New signs of brain aging discovered

Scientists from America and the UK managed to characterize changes in the expression of more than 100 genes associated with aging in ten regions of the brain.

18.01.2017
Genetics

Cardiology needs genetics

Now in most developed countries of the world, genetic research has become a routine diagnostic method in cardiology and is fully funded by the state.

18.01.2017
Genetics

Negative selection by intelligence level

People with a large number of "intelligence genes" give birth to fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than representatives of the so-called intellectual majority.

17.01.2017
Other life sciences

Marijuana: a complete list of incomplete data

The National Academies of Science, Technology and Medicine of the USA have released a large-scale report combining all modern scientific data on the effects of marijuana use.

17.01.2017
Biomedicine

Chemotherapy

What we call chemotherapeutic drugs are substances that destroy cancer cells, or rather, these compounds destroy cell proliferation.

16.01.2017
Biomedicine

Possible basis for a new tuberculosis vaccine

It is not yet clear how the mice vaccinated with bio-drops will react to infection with "real" tuberculosis, which scientists plan to check in the near future.

16.01.2017
Other life sciences

Self-winding pacemaker

A number of models of mechanical watches are equipped with an automatic winding mechanism. The same principle can be used when creating pacemakers – in this case they become completely autonomous.

16.01.2017