Life Sciences

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Nanotechnology

Engineers have created mobile nanofilms based on DNA

"Nanomyshtsy" work on the basis of specific hybridization of DNA molecules. You can control their movement by adding DNA chains to them, complementary to the DNA that is part of the film.

22.11.2016
Genetic engineering

Genetically modified crops

Researchers from the USA and Poland increased the yield of plants by 14-20%, increasing the production of three proteins that are involved in the process of photosynthesis.

21.11.2016
Biomedicine

Breakthrough in the fight against HIV

NIAID specialists claim to have discovered a universal antibody in the fight against HIV, which was called N6, capable of blocking 98% of all known strains of the virus.

21.11.2016
Other life sciences

New functions of the intestinal microflora

The food consumed strongly affects the intestinal microflora, which ultimately affects our body, for example, changing our weight. It turns out a vicious circle: man – microflora – man.

21.11.2016
Biomedicine

Long-lasting pill

Scientists have developed a new shell for medicines. It can persist in the stomach for two weeks after ingestion, gradually releasing the contents.

21.11.2016
Other life sciences

A patch with a universal acoustic sensor

The soft acoustic sensor can continuously collect several acoustic signals from the heart and other internal organs at once and recognizes human speech.

21.11.2016
Genetic engineering

CRISPR/Cas9: The first clinical trial

As part of the trials, patients with lung cancer are injected with their own T-lymphocytes, in which the PD-1 membrane protein gene was removed using CRISPR/Cas9 technology.

17.11.2016
Biomedicine

How to treat arthritis?

Scottish scientists have developed a method that allows you to predict the results of treatment of rheumatoid arthritis using machine learning.

17.11.2016
Other life sciences

A new method of losing weight without dieting

A small pilot study conducted by American scientists has shown that electrical stimulation of the balance organ helps to effectively reduce body weight.

17.11.2016
Prolonging youth

Is blood plasma the elixir of youth?

After injections of blood plasma of young people and adolescents in elderly mice, many age-related processes slowed down, memory, thinking improved, and activity increased.

17.11.2016
Biomedicine

Antibiotics from the computer

Computer analysis of the DNA of the human microbiota helped scientists identify two powerful antibiotics – humimycin A and humimycin B, which will help fight "superbugs".

16.11.2016
Biomedicine

New Hope Antibiotic

A group of Chinese researchers reported on the creation of a way to synthesize the recently discovered revolutionary antibiotic teixobactin (teixobactin).

16.11.2016
Other life sciences

What we know about placebo and its effects

By definition, a placebo is inert and cannot have any effect by itself, and the effect can be registered and evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively.

16.11.2016
Other life sciences

Bionics News Digest

Implanted electronics, chimera robots and biological computers are increasingly blurring the vague boundary between living beings and inanimate matter.

16.11.2016
Biomedicine

RNA interference against "swine flu"

The method is not to find new vaccines, but to "train" the immune system to produce interferons – proteins that help the immune system cope with the virus.

15.11.2016