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Cell membranes in silico
Computer modeling of the reactions of cell membranes to drug and toxin molecules will allow calculating the effect of drugs on cells in advance, without experiments.
26.04.2016- English version
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Biomedicine
Mechanisms of action of antibiotics
Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Andrey Konevega - on the mechanism of action of ribosomes, the apparatus of protein biosynthesis and resistance of bacterial strains to antibiotics.
26.04.2016
Biomedicine
Interleukin-33 against Alzheimer's disease
Injections of interleukin-33 in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease not only eliminate the symptoms of the disease, but also prevent the formation of toxic protein deposits by suppressing inflammation.
25.04.2016
Other life sciences
Fish oil will protect the brain from fructose
Fructose alters the expression of hundreds of genes in brain cells, which causes deterioration of memory and learning ability, but these effects are at least partially neutralized by docosahexaenoic acid.
25.04.2016
Cellular technologies
IPSC and free radicals
The optimal balance of reactive oxygen species turned out to be one of the key factors responsible for reprogramming mature somatic cells into induced pluripotent ones.
22.04.2016
Biomedicine
Aspirin against cancer: new data
Taking low doses of aspirin during routine cancer therapy increases the chances of survival of patients by 20% and helps prevent the formation of metastases.
22.04.2016
Other life sciences
Copy correctly
Portuguese biologists have shown how the protein complex suppresses the copying of extra centrioles – organelles during cell division, deviations among which can provoke cancer.
22.04.2016
Biomedicine
Breast cancer without chemotherapy
The MammaPrint genetic test will increase the effectiveness of breast cancer treatment and in many cases will avoid unnecessary chemotherapy.
22.04.2016
Biomedicine
Beta cell transplantation
Transplantation of donor beta-cell islets prevents the development of severe hypoglycemia episodes in patients with type 1 diabetes and restores blood glucose control.
21.04.2016
Genetic engineering
Up to the nucleotide: details
Now point changes in DNA can be introduced in a much more direct way than has been done so far – without cutting its strands, which can be dangerous in itself.
21.04.2016
Genetic engineering
It's too early to wait for "X-Men" yet
Experiments on editing the genomes of human embryos are carried out exclusively for scientific purposes. Eye color, gender, IQ, etc. in the near future, no one is going to edit.
21.04.2016
Genetic engineering
Accurate to the nucleotide
The new version of the popular genomic editor CRISPR/Cas9 allows you to accurately remove and correct mutations with a length of just one "letter" of DNA.
21.04.2016
Prolonging youth
The Key to Healthy Longevity
Removal of the Per2 gene prevents a decrease in the number of immune cells in the blood of aging mice and increases their life expectancy by 15% without increasing the incidence of cancer.
21.04.2016
Biomedicine
Still hereditary diseases
The American firm JScreen has launched a massive campaign to conduct genetic tests for 104 diseases, the most common in the Jewish environment.
20.04.2016
Biomedicine
Antibiotic development: a new target
American and Japanese scientists have identified changes in the structure of an enzyme that serves as a promising target for new antibiotics.
20.04.2016
Biomedicine
Chimera against cancer
The idea of creating chimeric antigen receptors (chimeric antigen receptor, CAR) belongs to chemist and immunologist Zelig Eskhar from the Weizmann Institute of Sciences.
20.04.2016
Genetics
Genome of Russia
More than two hundred listeners gathered at the conference on human population and medical genetics "Genome of Russia", which took place in the Hypercube of the Skolkovo Innovation Center.
20.04.2016
Nanotechnology
LCD display on the skin
The ultra-thin and ultra-flexible protective coating will allow the development of skin displays for visualizing blood oxygen levels, heart rate and many other purposes.
19.04.2016
Biomedicine
Cancer therapy
Tumors obey the same rules of natural selection as other living creatures. Practitioners today are beginning to use this knowledge.
19.04.2016
New in Gerontology
Immune System Proteins Kill Synapses
In the early stages of the body's development, proteins of the main histocompatibility complex of class I endow the body with the ability to control muscles, but deprive it of this ability in old age.
18.04.2016