Life Sciences

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Prolonging youth

Long happy life

Openness to new experiences, sociability, prudence, happiness. All this is good, but how can a person's worldview affect his health and longevity?

24.06.2016
Other life sciences

A new target for the treatment of muscle degeneration

It is possible that stimulation of mitofuzin-2 activity is a potential strategy for relieving the symptoms of sarcopenia and another phenomenon of muscle tissue atrophy – cachexia.

23.06.2016
Genetics

Postmortem gene expression

The method of measuring the postmortem activity of genes can be used to create new methods for preserving donor organs, predicting the success of transplantation and determining the time of death.

23.06.2016
Genetic engineering

Analog-to-digital converters based on DNA

MIT researchers have developed synthetic gene "circuits" that implement a combination of analog (continuous) and digital (discrete) computing technologies.

23.06.2016
Genetic engineering

Clinical studies of CRISPR/Cas9 technology

The experiment on the use of chimeric T-lymphocytes for cancer immunotherapy will involve 18 people with various types of oncopathology: myeloma, sarcoma and melanoma.

23.06.2016
Genetics

The main cause of chronic pain is named

Revealing the role of the MeSP2 protein in the regulation of pain sensations will help explain the mechanisms of chronic pain, as well as develop ways to treat it.

22.06.2016
Genetics

Social epigenetics

The level of activity of the gene encoding the hormone oxytocin can have a profound effect on the social behavior of humans and other mammals.

22.06.2016
Other life sciences

Investing in early cancer diagnosis

Moscow Seed Fund together with the RVC Biofund invested 16 million rubles in the RTM Diagnostics project for the development and implementation of new radiothermometry technologies.

22.06.2016
Bioethics

Moral problems of transplantology

Philosopher Elena Bryzgalina – about open issues of transplantology, the organization of dying and the mechanisms of obtaining donor organs.

21.06.2016
Nanotechnology

The thrombus will be dissolved by magnetic nanoparticles

The enzyme in the composite does not lose its therapeutic properties even with repeated use, and in terms of the rate of dissolution of the thrombus, the new composite exceeds unprotected enzymes by thousands of times.

21.06.2016
Other life sciences

Peristaltic pump for the aorta

When current pulses are applied to the device by magnetic induction, its rings contract, making peristaltic movements. This helps to remove blood into the aorta, unloading the myocardium.

21.06.2016
Nanotechnology

Self - assembling protein icosahedron

Such molecules, whose shape corresponds to the shells of many viruses, can be used as a transport for the delivery of drugs and other active substances to cancer cells.

21.06.2016
Cellular technologies

Parthenogenetic cells against Parkinson's disease

Transplantation of neural stem cells derived from human parthenotogenetic cells to primates with Parkinson's disease facilitated the clinical parameters of the disease.

20.06.2016
Genetic engineering

"Gene drive" can be localized

Biologists from Harvard University and MIT have developed a way to control the spread of artificial mutations in wild populations of animals and bacteria.

20.06.2016
Genetics

Why are we different?

Most of our differences depend on which specific set of gene variants we received from our parents, and on how well and harmoniously different groups of alleles can work.

20.06.2016
Cellular technologies

Bioengineered bones for maxillofacial surgery

A group of scientists from Columbia University managed to grow fragments of jaws that ideally replaced the removed 6-centimeter sections with full restoration of chewing function.

20.06.2016