Life Sciences

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Genetic engineering

CRISPR-Cas in pictures

In less than 30 years, CRISPR-Cas has evolved from a "strange sequence of unknown biological purpose" into a promising genomic editing tool.

28.11.2016
Biomedicine

Anti-cancer cells

A genetic chain embedded in human cells synthesizes molecules that suppress the ability of tumors to survive and grow in a microenvironment with a low content of oxygen and nutrients.

28.11.2016
Genetic engineering

Silicone from a bioreactor

American scientists using the method of directed evolution have developed a technology that allows bacteria to synthesize organic silicon-carbon bonds.

25.11.2016
Biomedicine

A new challenge for oncologist Watson

Genome sequencing will be performed twice: after diagnosis and after cancer cells stop responding to previously effective drugs.

25.11.2016
Other life sciences

Preparations for eye transplantation have begun

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh are preparing for eye transplant operations – such a transplant can be carried out within the next ten years.

25.11.2016
Other life sciences

How to deal with "traitors"

Scientists from the Israel Institute of Technology have identified biochemical pathways through the suppression of which it is possible to destroy B-lymphocytes that have become malignant.

24.11.2016
Other life sciences

New possibilities of ultrasound surgery

Physicists from Moscow State University and colleagues from the University of Washington have come up with a new way to remotely destroy tumors inside the human body using tiny bubbles.

24.11.2016
Prolonging youth

Young blood: the data was not confirmed

The new data refute the theory of the rejuvenating effect of young blood, at the same time indicating that old blood stimulates the aging process.

24.11.2016
Genetic engineering

A cartoon about genetic engineering

Designing children, an end to diseases and aging – what used to be a fantasy is becoming a reality. The only thing we know for sure is that everything will change irreversibly.

23.11.2016
Biomedicine

Not only to restore an erection

Type 2 diabetes is a known risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. But in diabetic men, Viagra reduces the risk of developing a heart attack and increases the chances of survival if a heart attack does happen.

23.11.2016
Other life sciences

Evolution of viruses and immunity

Biologist Evgeny Kunin – about the survival strategies of viruses, the dependence of the paths of evolution on DNA and the endless arms race of organisms.

23.11.2016
Biomedicine

Alzheimer's disease: early diagnosis by retina

In order to determine whether a person will develop Alzheimer's disease decades before the first symptoms appear, a simple retinal examination can be performed.

23.11.2016
New in Gerontology

Men are programmed to die before women

Despite a very strong increase in human life expectancy as a whole, the life expectancy of men still remains lower than that of women.

23.11.2016
Theories of aging

The ceiling of life

Closing the gap between average and maximum life expectancy is a more realistic task than the endless prolongation of old age.

23.11.2016
Cellular technologies

Scientists have grown innervated intestinal tissues

Scientists at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have grown intestinal tissues with functioning nerves and successfully implanted them in laboratory animals.

22.11.2016
Prolonging youth

Mitophagy – a cure for old age

Researchers from California have found a new way to eliminate cell damage that accumulates with age. It consists in removing mutated DNA from mitochondria.

22.11.2016