Life Sciences

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Genetic engineering

Marmosets-parkinsonics

Genetically modified monkeys from the igrunkov family will be used to study the disease itself and find an effective way to combat it.

17.06.2016

Other life sciences

Microbiota and obesity

Obesity is associated with changes in the microbiota – the community of microbes in the gut. But the mechanism of this process is not fully understood.

17.06.2016

Genetics

The evolutionary role of tumors

Lecture by Andrey Kozlov, Doctor of Biological Sciences, devoted to the study of evolutionarily new genes of cancer tumors.

16.06.2016

Other life sciences

Branches of immunity

There are many branches in the immune system. In particular, all immunity can be divided into innate and acquired. The main function of this system is protection from outside intrusion.

16.06.2016

Biomedicine

New drug cures psoriasis

Almost 80% of patients with moderate and severe psoriasis completely or almost completely got rid of the disease thanks to the new experimental drug ixekizumab.

16.06.2016

Theories of aging

Why Aging can be Avoided

The huge variety of types of aging in plants and animals should alert lovers of generalizations – especially against generalizing the inevitability of aging.

16.06.2016

Cellular technologies

Stem cells restored the pituitary gland

The pituitary tissue grown from human pluripotent stem cells functions normally after transplantation to rats with simulated hypopituitarism.

15.06.2016

Other life sciences

Exoskeleton for children

The first of its kind children's exoskeleton allows patients with spinal muscular atrophy to walk, preventing the development of the health-damaging consequences of immobility.

15.06.2016

Genetics

Submit the metagenome for analysis

A software tool called MetaFast, developed by Russian scientists, allows for a quick comparative analysis of a large number of metagenomes.

15.06.2016

Other life sciences

Biofuels from the toilet

The Walden Science Pavilion can become a prototype of the anhydrous bio toilets of the future, for which customers will be paid a symbolic amount for visiting.

15.06.2016

Prolonging youth

Scientists have reversed muscle aging

Injections of osteocalcin, a hormone that bones produce during exercise, restored muscle performance to elderly mice at the level of three–month–old animals.

15.06.2016

Other life sciences

Chip for finding snips

Researchers from the University of California have developed a graphene chip that is able to detect snips – single nucleotide DNA mutations.

15.06.2016

Other life sciences

Parkinson's disease: a new target

Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh have described the mechanism of toxic action of the alpha-synuclein protein. This opens up new ways to develop treatments for Parkinson's disease.

15.06.2016

Other life sciences

Virtual reality technologies in medicine

According to the forecast of the research and consulting company IndustriARC, by 2020 the global market of virtual and augmented reality technologies in healthcare will reach $2.54 billion.

15.06.2016

Cellular technologies

Stem cells against eczema

Therapy with cord blood mesenchymal stem cells is effective against moderate and severe manifestations of atopic dermatitis, the most common form of eczema.

14.06.2016

Other life sciences

Transcript of a lecture by Alexander Panchin, popularizer of science, Candidate of Biological Sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Board of the Evolution Foundation.

14.06.2016

Prolonging youth

Alternatives to death

How does modern molecular biology look at the phenomenon of aging? How are they trying to study aging, are there any hopes for slowing down or even stopping this process?

14.06.2016

Other life sciences

Accounting with calculation

The main goal of the Human Proteome project is to inventory the proteins of the human body and find out the interactions between them.

14.06.2016

Genetic engineering

Flash drives in a test tube

Scientists from Harvard University using CRISPR technology encoded 100 bytes of information in the genome of E.coli bacteria. But this is just the beginning...

14.06.2016

Cellular technologies

Resetting the immune system

A radical approach to the treatment of multiple sclerosis involves the complete destruction of the existing immune system and its reinstallation with the help of stem cells.

14.06.2016