Life Sciences

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Other life sciences

How to help helpers?

Scientists from the Institute of Allergy and Immunology in La Jolla (USA) have discovered a protein from the cytokine group that plays a crucial role in the maturation of follicular T-helpers.

08.07.2016
Genetic engineering

DNA drives: another record

Microsoft employees, together with scientists from the University of Washington, have saved more than 200 megabytes of data in the form of nucleic acid.

08.07.2016
Cellular technologies

Satellite cells will help with burns

In people with severe burns that lead to deep atrophy of skeletal muscles, their regeneration is stimulated by the activation of satellite cells.

07.07.2016
Other life sciences

Neutrophils weave a web

The DNA network for catching and destroying bacteria appears with the participation of many neutrophils, so the question arises how they interact with each other.

07.07.2016
New in Gerontology

Mitochondrial genes and aging

Differences in the work of mitochondria, caused not by diseases and pathologies, but by variations in the structure of genes, directly affect the rate of aging of the body.

07.07.2016
Other life sciences

Pleasure with benefits

Israeli scientists have found that stimulating the brain's pleasure center enhances the immune response in mice. This may explain the effectiveness of placebo in the treatment of infections.

06.07.2016
Other life sciences

Soft exoskeletons

Pneumatic actuators can be used as exoskeleton muscles. They can apply the same efforts as electric motors, only they will weigh several times less.

06.07.2016
Biomedicine

Encemab is ready for clinical trials

Preclinical studies of the drug for tick-borne encephalitis have shown that it is hundreds of times more effective than human serum immunoglobulin, completely non-toxic and safe.

06.07.2016
Other life sciences

The Future of medicine

An excerpt from the book by Professor of genomics Eric Topol about individual predictions of diseases, artificial intelligence in modern medicine and forecasts of epidemics.

06.07.2016
Other life sciences

Itaconate is a potential anti–inflammatory

Scientists from the USA, Canada, Germany and Russia have found a substance capable of suppressing the excessive activity of macrophages – one of the varieties of cells of the immune system.

05.07.2016
Nanotechnology

"Shaggy" nanospheres for cancer treatment

The advantage of boron nitride nanospheres lies in their morphology: inside there is a cavity with a diameter of up to 90 nm with a wall thickness of 10 nm, and the outer surface is covered with villi.

05.07.2016
Other life sciences

Is death so irreversible?

The cells in the dead body continue to work actively, desperately trying to survive. This article will tell you about the thanatotranscriptome and whether Charon transports in both directions.

05.07.2016
Nanotechnology

Programmable vaccines

Vaccines made of RNA and dendrimer nanoparticles can be developed within a week in response to any epidemic. In experiments on mice, 100% immunity to Ebola, swine flu and toxoplasma was obtained.

05.07.2016
Cloning

Here's a sheep!

If Wilmut and Campbell were not pioneers in cell nucleus transplantation, and Dolly was the first cloned creature, why did they get worldwide fame?

05.07.2016
Other life sciences

Non-functional MRI

A thorough study of the methodology of research using functional magnetic resonance imaging invalidates the results of an entire branch of science.

05.07.2016
Biomedicine

Spices against cancer

Russian scientists have proposed an effective synthesis of substances with anticancer activity based on compounds (glaziovianin A and its structural analogues) isolated from parsley and dill seeds.

04.07.2016
Theories of aging

Potential targets for aging gene therapy (2)

The second part of the list of genes that, according to the editors of the Fight Aging! website, can be used for compensatory gene therapy of aging in the near future.

04.07.2016
Nanotechnology

Hemodialysis device on the bracelet

An adsorbent based on zeolite and nanoceramics will become the main element of a portable hemodialysis device, which will be the size of a wristwatch.

04.07.2016
Genetics

Genetic monotony

The bottleneck effect has led to the fact that a greater number of harmful mutations are common among Greenland Eskimos than in other human populations.

04.07.2016