Life Sciences

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Biomedicine

Diagnosis of a heart attack in 10 minutes

The new portable device Minicare I-20, designed for use in intensive care units, allows you to quickly diagnose a myocardial infarction with a single drop of blood.

06.06.2016
Biomedicine

Step to victory over cancer: details

It is possible to produce vaccines from RNA lipoplexes quickly and inexpensively, while they can contain any tumor antigens, providing universal immunotherapy for cancer.

03.06.2016
Genetics

Synthetic human genome

An international group of scientists, which included the famous biologist George Church, proposed a project to create a synthetic human genome.

03.06.2016
Prolonging youth

Mice with extra-long telomeres

Scientists from the Spanish Cancer Research Center have created mice with extra-long telomeres in their chromosomes. At the same time, the animals remained young longer.

03.06.2016
Other life sciences

Stiletto shoes for prosthetic legs

The prosthesis weighs only 1.4 kg and is able to withstand the weight of 113 kg ladies, allowing you to feel confident in any shoe, from ballet flats with sneakers to stilettos up to 10 cm high.

02.06.2016
Biomedicine

Medicine for RNA

American scientists have found a low–molecular compound capable (so far - in human cell culture) of blocking one of the RNA defects and eliminating the manifestations of the disease caused by it.

02.06.2016
Genetics

The cause of multiple sclerosis is a mutation

Multiple sclerosis can be caused by the replacement of just one nucleotide in the NR1H3 gene. The discovery refutes the opinion that this disease is never inherited.

02.06.2016
Genetics

Troll's Heart: details

A rare mutation that disrupts the ASGR1 gene reduces the risk of heart attack by a third. Amgen specialists have already started searching for drugs that can "turn off" this gene.

02.06.2016
Biomedicine

Biomarkers of preeclampsia

A team of Russian scientists has developed an approach to create a method of non–invasive diagnosis of preeclampsia - a serious complex pathology of pregnant women.

01.06.2016
Prolonging youth

Rapamycin was tested on dogs

The results of the experiment conducted on 24 dogs for several weeks are not enough to draw serious conclusions, so scientists plan to start long-term trials.

01.06.2016
Theories of aging

You can 't forbid living for a long time

It is still very early to talk about the victory over old age. Nevertheless, the discoveries already made give hope that someday a "cure for old age" - or at least a slowing down of old age – will still be created.

31.05.2016
Other life sciences

Microbes against virus vectors

The United States may soon become the first country to use bacteriological weapons against mosquitoes that spread viruses such as Zika, dengue and chikungunya.

31.05.2016
Other life sciences

Personalized Pills

Researchers from Singapore have developed an inexpensive way to 3D-print tablets with a specific dose and release rate of the drug prescribed to the patient individually.

31.05.2016
Genetics

Barcode in DNA

The technique of studying the "pedigree" of each cell in the body will make a breakthrough in understanding how trillions of cells in the human body originate from a single egg.

30.05.2016
Genetic engineering

CRISPR/Cas9 with egg electroporation

The CRISPR-EZ (Electroporation of Zygotes) method makes it possible to reduce the effort and time spent on obtaining mice with knocked out (defective) genes.

30.05.2016
Biomedicine

microRNA against tumor resistance to therapy

Molecular biologists were able to overcome the drug resistance of the pancreatic tumor by increasing the content of a certain type of microRNA in malignant cells.

30.05.2016