Life Sciences

Cellular technologies

A "patch" of stem cells restores menisci

The results of the clinical study demonstrate an alternative to the removal of the injured meniscus, which ensures the restoration of the functions of the knee joint.

20.12.2016

Prolonging youth

Polymorphism that can protect against the "diseases of aging"

The discovery of the possibility to block the pathological activation of NADPH oxidase can theoretically form the basis for the creation of new means to combat such diseases.

19.12.2016

Genetics

How many chromosomes do you have?

Great apes have 2 more chromosomes than we do. How did it happen that during the evolution of humans, chromosomes were lost? Is something like this happening now?

19.12.2016

New in Gerontology

The British described the aging of the brain in the largest sample

Scientists from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Texas at Austin conducted the largest study of age-related changes in the white matter of the brain.

19.12.2016

Biomedicine

If you become an embryo for a short time…

Periodic inclusion of "Yamanaka genes" in the whole body improved the condition of ordinary elderly mice, and extended the life of mice with progeria by 30%.

16.12.2016

Biomedicine

What is molecular medicine?

Changes at the molecular level often occur even before the first symptoms of the disease appear. This can be used for both early and preventive diagnostics.

16.12.2016

Cloning

Cloning animals can become more effective

Scientists from the USA and France studied gene expression as clones develop and found out why most cloned embryos die in the early stages of development.

16.12.2016

Genetics

Genetics of diabetes and obesity

Epidemiologist Nick Warham – on the connection between diabetes and obesity, the study of the genetic causes of these diseases and the development of personalized treatment.

16.12.2016

Cellular technologies

ESCs are getting old too

Human embryonic stem cells from a culture rejuvenated with the help of a chemical "cocktail" are much more successfully transformed into tissues suitable for transplantation.

15.12.2016

Other life sciences

A new hope for the paralyzed

Technologies for restoring the connections between the brain and the nerve nodes of the limbs of the body that have been severed as a result of injury or illness are getting closer to reality.

15.12.2016

Biomedicine

Emulsion was taught to bombard cancer with drugs

The authors of the new work have created a platform for drug delivery based on a double emulsion of water-in-oil-in-water using safe surfactants and sesame oil.

15.12.2016

Genetics

One of the "obesity genes" is being studied at NSU

New data on the expression of genes with the yellow mutation, which reduces leptin synthesis, in the future may help in the search for a way to treat obesity in people with such a mutation.

15.12.2016

Biomedicine

Scientists have found a colorectal cancer suppressor protein

An international team of scientists has shown that a protein from the class of Nod-like receptors is able to suppress the development of colon and rectal cancer in mice.

15.12.2016

Other life sciences

And about the bone – it seemed

British researchers, analyzing the evolution of the baculum – the penis bone – in mammals, showed that its length is determined by the level of competition between males.

14.12.2016

Cloning

Clones start and win

An Argentine team on cloned horses won a prestigious polo match. The cloning was led by Katrin Hinrichs, a veterinarian from Texas A&M University.

14.12.2016

Genetic engineering

The CRISPR method has become even more effective

Specialists from Western Ontario University have improved the gene editing technology by adding a modified I-Tevl enzyme to the CRISPR-Cas9 system.

14.12.2016

Biomedicine

After a stroke, help neurons myelinate

American scientists have achieved the restoration of brain tissue after a stroke of white matter in mice by stimulating the myelination of damaged neurons.

14.12.2016

Biomedicine

Lymphocytes against cancer

A group of doctors from the National Cancer Institute reported that their new treatment method was able to get rid of colon cancer in the first patient.

14.12.2016

Other life sciences

Radio-controlled mice

A group of researchers from Stanford University has learned to control the behavior of animals using an electro-optical device implanted in the brain.

14.12.2016

Genetics

Diagnosis of genetic diseases by photo

Thousands of doctors and researchers dealing with genetic diseases around the world use the Face2Gene computer program for preliminary diagnosis.

12.12.2016