Life Sciences

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Genetic engineering

Cellular gene therapy of spinal cord injuries

Transplantation of umbilical cord blood cells with a built-in combination of two genes producing axon and vascular growth factors caused a powerful therapeutic effect in rats.

11.04.2016
Nanotechnology

Supersensor for early cancer diagnosis

The sensitivity of the new optical biosensor for cancer diagnosis based on nanostructured materials is a million times higher than the sensitivity of earlier versions.

11.04.2016
Prolonging youth

Lithium chloride as a geroprotector

The addition of a lithium-containing mood stabilization drug to food increases the life expectancy of fruit flies-fruit flies by 16%.

11.04.2016
Genetic engineering

DNA Archive

A system has been created that stores various information in synthesized DNA and extracts it back without errors.

08.04.2016
Genetics

The mystery of lncRNA has been solved

Biologists from the University of Pennsylvania have found out what long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are needed for, whose role in the genome has long remained unknown.

08.04.2016
Other life sciences

HIV may develop resistance to gene therapy

An international team of scientists has found out that the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system – a potentially effective way to fight HIV – can make the immunodeficiency virus stronger.

08.04.2016
New in Gerontology

How does Alzheimer's disease begin?

Scientists from Harvard Medical School have found the cause of synapse loss at an early stage of Alzheimer's disease and proved that this process begins before the formation of beta-amyloid plaques in the brain.

08.04.2016
Genetic engineering

CRISPR/Cas9: a short encyclopedia

Konstantin Severinov – about the immune system of bacteria, the mechanism of action of CRISPR/Cas9 and the results of editing the genome of human embryos

07.04.2016
Other life sciences

Neurons from liposomes

Microscopic water droplets, bounded by a lipid membrane and stacked on top of each other using three-dimensional printing, can transmit an electrical impulse to each other, like nerve cells.

07.04.2016
Other life sciences

Tablet "Janus"

So the authors called the device for the long-term release of drugs, one side of which adheres to the intestinal mucosa, and the second repels everything that comes into contact with it.

07.04.2016
Genetics

Heart attack or angina pectoris?

Genetically determined changes in the amount of T-cadherin protein are associated with the nature of the onset of coronary heart disease – myocardial infarction or stable angina pectoris.

07.04.2016
Genetic engineering

DNA programming: How and why

The technology of the "Cello" program code allows you to register the required set of properties in the DNA of bacteria and create biological circuits with the necessary logical parameters working inside a living cell.

07.04.2016
Other life sciences

Pig's heart

A new record in the field of xenotransplantology. The new publication talks about five monkeys who lived for a long time after such an operation. The longest period was 945 days.

06.04.2016
Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology against cancer

Russian scientists have managed to develop a unique method of cancer diagnosis – a magnetite-based nano-device that will help detect the disease at an early stage using MRI and immediately begin effective treatment.

06.04.2016
Nanotechnology

A nucleotide rectifier

The smallest diode – an electric current rectifier – is a short fragment of DNA into which two foreign molecules are introduced.

06.04.2016
Cellular technologies

Cellular therapy of heart failure

The introduction of stem cells of their own bone marrow reduces mortality and the frequency of hospitalization in patients with end-stage heart failure on the background of ischemic disease.

06.04.2016
Other life sciences

Embolization of arteries against obesity

Bariatric embolization of the arteries, which leads to a decrease in blood flow in the stomach region producing the hunger hormone ghrelin, is safe and promotes progressive weight loss.

06.04.2016
Genetic engineering

In the EU, TKID gene therapy was allowed

The European Medicines Agency has approved the use of gene therapy for the treatment of children with severe combined immunodeficiency, for whom it was not possible to find a bone marrow donor.

05.04.2016