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New in Gerontology

Human longevity: genetics or lifestyle?

One of the main issues of biogerontology is the correlation between the genetic profile and lifestyle in determining a person's chance of delaying aging and healthy longevity.

27.05.2016
Other life sciences

Drug addicts were allowed to "file"

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Probuphine, the first implant for opioid addiction replacement therapy.

27.05.2016
Nanotechnology

A new method of creating DNA origami

The DAEDALUS computer program calculates which nucleotide chains are required to create a given shape. The synthesized oligonucleotides in the solution are themselves assembled into the desired shape.

27.05.2016
Bioethics

Posthumous donation

The Ministry of Health has developed and submitted to the government a bill "On organ donation, parts of human organs and their transplantation".

27.05.2016
Genetics

About "bald chickens" and faith in God

Avigdor Kahaner is one of the outstanding modern geneticists, the man who bred a breed of chicken without feathers. For this, some cursed him, while others, on the contrary, called him a great scientist.

27.05.2016
Other life sciences

Cyborgs are among us

Cyborgs have been living next to us for many decades. These are ordinary people – but with pacemakers, prosthetic limbs, biosensors or hearing implants.

27.05.2016
Cloning

Homo synthetical

As part of the HGP-Write: Testing Large Synthetic Genomes in Cells project, scientists hope to develop tools that will push synthetic biology to exponential growth on an industrial scale.

26.05.2016
Biomedicine

A new way to develop diabetes therapy

The discovery of a previously unknown central mechanism for regulating glucose levels opens the way to the creation of fundamentally new effective hypoglycemic drugs.

26.05.2016
Genetics

Search for new antibiotics

Microbiologist Konstantin Severinov – on bacterial communication, bioinformatic analysis and transgenic microorganisms.

26.05.2016
Genetics

Search for genomic associations

Biologist Sergey Nuzhdin – about mutations, the first studies of genomic associations and mechanisms of phenotype prediction.

26.05.2016
New in Gerontology

The Y chromosome and Alzheimer's disease

The loss of the Y chromosome in the leukocytes of older men is associated with an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and mortality from other causes, including certain types of cancer.

26.05.2016
Cellular technologies

Chimeras for transplantologists

A group of American scientists is working on the creation of chimera organisms - embryos, one part of which is taken from humans, and the other from animals.

26.05.2016
Genetics

Genes, mood, stress and life expectancy

One of the key genes determining the effect of stress and bad or good mood on life expectancy turned out to be ank3, which encodes the protein anikirin 3.

25.05.2016
Genetic engineering

Guide to Gene Activation

CRISPR/Cas9 technology can be used in a new capacity not for gene editing, but for regulating the work of enhancers – DNA sites that activate the synthesis of the corresponding protein.

25.05.2016
Genetics

"Nose shape genes" found

An international team of scientists has identified the genes responsible for the shape of the nose and some other facial features.

24.05.2016
Genetic engineering

CRISPR instead of RNA interference

To test the CRISPR/C2c2 system, the authors learned how to turn off the red glow of bacteria by destroying the RNA of the red fluorescent protein gene previously introduced into cells.

24.05.2016
Other life sciences

Microflora and brain

Prolonged use of antibiotics damages the intestinal microflora and disrupts the immune system, which negatively affects brain function.

24.05.2016