Life Sciences

Other life sciences

Expansion of the bacterial front in the arena with antibiotics

The large space of the MEGA arena allows you to visually observe mutations and natural selection during the spread of the bacterial population front. An impressive sight.

12.09.2016

New in Gerontology

Difficulties of finding the pill of immortality (5)

Resveratrol and other sirtuin activators can positively affect health and life expectancy, especially against the background of consumption of fat-rich foods.

09.09.2016

Cellular technologies

Cell therapy "returned hands" to paralyzed patient

Scientists from the University of Southern California, with the help of experimental cell therapy, returned hand movements to a young man paralyzed after a car accident.

09.09.2016

Other life sciences

New app diagnoses anemia

The HemaApp application developed at the University of Washington measures the concentration of hemoglobin in the blood and diagnoses anemia using a smartphone camera.

09.09.2016

Cellular technologies

Past, present and future of cell therapy

Biologist Sergey Kiselyov – about methods of treating diseases with stem cells and prospects for the development of this technology.

09.09.2016

Genetic engineering

Aibolites-GMO

GM technologies open up prospects for the creation of fundamentally new drugs and, probably, will make it possible to transplant animal organs to humans.

09.09.2016

Genetics

Transcriptome of arabidopsis

A detailed atlas of gene expression of the Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis thaliana), a model object of plant genetics, will clarify the functions of many genes and find genes previously unknown.

09.09.2016

New in Gerontology

Difficulties of finding the pill of immortality (4)

The FDA recently approved a study Targeting Aging With Metformin to evaluate metformin as a geroprotector. About 3,000 people will take part in the project.

08.09.2016

Biomedicine

Melanoma medicine is being tested on volunteers

Pevonedistat (pevonedistat) is a selective inhibitor of the Nedd8–activating enzyme, was developed in 2015 and is currently undergoing clinical trials.

08.09.2016

Genetics

Eh, the relief of the musculature…

A group of French geneticists found out that some of the viral genes embedded in human DNA many years ago may be responsible for gaining muscle mass in males.

08.09.2016

Biomedicine

"Smoke detector" for early cancer diagnosis

The new test detects cancer by reacting to "smoke" – mutant proteins on the surface of red blood cells, the number of which increases by an order of magnitude in the presence of cancer pathology.

08.09.2016

Other life sciences

Proteomics for criminology

Biologists from the United States have learned to almost accurately determine a person's identity by the proteins contained in his hair, even several centuries after his death.

08.09.2016

Biomedicine

A way to fight a deadly form of cancer has been found

The new drug slightly increases the survival rate of patients with severe pancreatic cancer, but can prolong the life of individuals for several years.

08.09.2016

New in Gerontology

Difficulties of finding the pill of immortality (3)

The mechanisms of prolonging life under the action of rapamycin are hotly discussed in the biology of aging. It is extremely important that its effect is observed in mice with different genotypes.

07.09.2016

Genetic engineering

On-line lectures about GMOs and not only about them

An entry has been opened for free online courses on GMOs - one of the first available to a wide audience in the world and the first in Russian. And more – about biosensors, gemology…

07.09.2016

Genetic engineering

Historical moment

The matter is rather in the historical component: the cabbage tasted had a genome edited using CRISPR-Cas9 technology.

07.09.2016

Biomedicine

Healthy microflora helps antiretroviral therapy

Scientists from the University of Valencia have shown that HIV-infected patients with healthy intestinal microflora respond better to antiretroviral therapy.

07.09.2016

Genetics

Archived transposons

So that mobile genetic elements – transposons – do not spoil the necessary genes, the cell constantly keeps the "jumping DNA" in a tightly packed state.

07.09.2016

Other life sciences

Barrier contraception without a condom

The first such contraceptive may appear on the market in the near future. About what methods were used before and what methods are being developed now – in this material.

07.09.2016

New in Gerontology

Difficulties of finding the pill of immortality (2)

For the primary screening of small molecules as potential geroprotectors, it is customary to use short-lived invertebrate models, such as nematodes and fruit flies.

06.09.2016