Life Sciences

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Cellular technologies

The pitfalls of "three-parent fertilization"

A new study notes that "three-parent" fertilization can have serious drawbacks. However, shortcomings were also found in the methodology of this study…

24.05.2016
Genetics

A "sunscreen gene" has been discovered

Researchers from the University of Southern California have discovered a "sunscreen gene" whose presence protects against ultraviolet radiation and may be able to prevent the development of skin cancer.

23.05.2016
Other life sciences

Strangers as their own

Throughout its history, transplantation has been associated with a number of problems. Now the world is on the threshold of a new transplantology, which should bring deliverance from many barriers.

23.05.2016
Other life sciences

A pill for gray hair

The research of scientists from the Langon Medical Center, studying the molecular mechanisms responsible for skin and hair color, can turn the dream of such a pill into reality.

23.05.2016
Genetics

Genes in tandem

Geneticists from Stanford University have found out why some copies of genes that have been doubled as a result of mutations remain in the genome, despite the fact that most of them are lost or lose their functions.

23.05.2016
Other life sciences

A tiny lung made of plastic

PuLMo (Pulmonary Lung Model) will allow you to evaluate the effect of toxins on the body, simulate lung diseases and predict the effectiveness and side effects of experimental drugs.

20.05.2016
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of HIV infection

Researchers from Temple University using CRISPR/Cas9 technology for the first time managed to cut the DNA of the immunodeficiency virus from the genome of living animals.

20.05.2016
Genetics

New about the Oct4 gene

The gene, recognized by science as inactive in the adult body, actually plays a crucial role in eliminating the cause of most myocardial infarctions and strokes

20.05.2016
Other life sciences

Robot with pipette

Unlike other robots working with pipettes and liquids, aBioBot is able to "see" and react to a situation thanks to a machine vision system.

19.05.2016
Nanotechnology

Flashlights for cancer cells

Photoluminescent nanoparticles made of ultrapure silicon are able to freely penetrate into cells, which allows them to be used in the early diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

19.05.2016
Other life sciences

Intestines on a chip

The HuMiX micro-flow chip simulates the anaerobic conditions in which microorganisms and intestinal epithelial cells exist.

19.05.2016
Nanotechnology

Medicines in gel nanocapsules

An international group of researchers with the participation of physicists from Moscow State University has developed a new type of drug carrier for their targeted delivery – gel nanocapsules with a double shell.

19.05.2016
Other life sciences

Bio-glass for cartilage restoration

Elastic bio-glass has mechanical properties of cartilage tissue and the potential ability to stimulate the growth of cartilage cells, which makes it a promising material for the restoration of articular and intervertebral cartilage.

18.05.2016
Genetic engineering

GMOs have once again been recognized as safe

The main idea of the report of the National Academies of Sciences, Technology and Medicine of the USA was that products from GM crops are not only not harmful, but can be useful for humans.

18.05.2016
Biomedicine

Treat and not cripple

Developed by Siberian scientists, the method of packaging drugs into "cells" of four glycyrrhizic acid molecules makes it possible to reduce the dose of the drug tenfold.

18.05.2016
Other life sciences

A new wound healing mechanism

The mechanism of wound-induced polyploidization consists in increasing the size of existing cells due to the growth of the sets of chromosomes contained in them to three or more.

18.05.2016
Genetics

How young do you look?

Certain variants of the MC1R gene make a person outwardly almost two years older than his real age.

17.05.2016
Genetics

Mammoth genome read in Russia

To read the ancient DNA, scientists used the genetic material of the mammoth Chroma, discovered in Yakutia in 2009.

17.05.2016
Prolonging youth

Clinical studies of geroprotectors

What is interesting about clinical studies of a drug that cures 10 diseases in animals and, perhaps, even able to influence the aging process?

17.05.2016