Life Sciences

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Genetic engineering

Encryption in DNA

American researchers are working on a new, extremely reliable method of encoding and storing important information – in the form of a cipher written in DNA molecules.

15.07.2016
Prolonging youth

The secret of the benefits of pomegranates

The intestinal microflora transforms the compound contained in pomegranates into urolitin A, which protects muscles from one of the main causes of aging – the accumulation of non-functional mitochondria.

14.07.2016
Nanotechnology

Russian-Korean oncodiagnostics

Scientists from MEPhI together with colleagues from Pohang University of Science and Technology are completing the development of a nanosystem for early diagnosis of oncological diseases.

14.07.2016
Other life sciences

Optic nerves can regenerate

With the help of gene therapy and visual stimulation, American scientists managed to partially restore the vision of mice after damage to the optic nerve.

14.07.2016
Genetic engineering

A picture from DNA

To create a copy of van Gogh's "Starry Night", scientists have developed a technology that allows pre-determined amounts of phosphors to be placed on the surface of photonic crystals.

13.07.2016
Biomedicine

A wound healing agent was found in the skin

Italian and American scientists have discovered substances in the skin that regulate wound healing. They can become the basis for effective wound healing drugs.

13.07.2016
Other life sciences

World Tumor Bank

Major global cancer research organizations have launched a project to produce models of human tumors, with characteristics as close as possible to the originals.

13.07.2016
Nanotechnology

The longer the life, the stronger the health

New data obtained by scientists of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine indicate that a long life does not necessarily have to be combined with a bouquet of senile diseases.

12.07.2016
Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology in biology and medicine

Physicist Mikhail Khodorkovsky – on the mechanisms of interaction of proteins with DNA and RNA, nanotechnology in medicine and "laser tweezers".

12.07.2016
Genetics

An oncosuppressor can become an oncogene

High expression of p21 was considered a good sign for cancer patients – it meant that p53 would slow down the development of the tumor. A new study has shown that not everything is so simple.

12.07.2016
Bioethics

History of eugenics

Philosopher Elena Bryzgalina – about the social movement for the betterment of man, eugenic projects and their negative and positive sides.

12.07.2016
Biomedicine

Biodegradable arterial stent

The Absorb GT1 Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold System stent is made of poly-L-lactide, a biodegradable polymer similar to those used to produce suture material.

11.07.2016
Other life sciences

Where does cancer begin

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have for the first time identified the primary cancer cell from which a malignant tumor grows – basal cell carcinoma.

11.07.2016
Other life sciences

Bacteria rotate the microrotors

Scientists' calculations show that the flow created by bacteria can generate constant mechanical energy due to the rotation of the array of micro-rotors.

11.07.2016
Other life sciences

Sappers, take off!

If the researchers' plans come to fruition, then in two years the squadrons of flying bio-cyborg sappers will go on their first reconnaissance mission.

11.07.2016
Cellular technologies

A golden cyborg stingray has been created

The polymer skin of a 16-millimeter "stingray" weighing 10 g is fixed on a skeleton made of gold wire and covered with about 200 thousand heart muscle cells taken from the body of rats.

11.07.2016
Genetics

How paternal mitochondria disappear

Geneticists have found out why mitochondrial DNA is usually inherited from the maternal line – this fundamental question has occupied researchers for more than half a century.

08.07.2016