Life Sciences

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Other life sciences

Where do radicals come from?

An international group of scientists with the participation of a researcher from Moscow State University showed under what conditions the body releases more superoxide, a dangerous form of oxygen capable of destroying DNA.

05.04.2016
Cellular technologies

iMSC will revolutionize medicine

Induced multipotent stem cells (IMSCS) obtained from adult cells are able to repair damage to various tissues without the risks associated with the use of other types of stem cells.

05.04.2016
Cellular technologies

Bioengineered ovary

Ovarian bioprostheses printed with a 3D printer and populated with oocytes allowed mice to conceive, carry and give birth to healthy cubs.

05.04.2016
Cellular technologies

Bio-pen for writing with stem cells

BioPen will provide orthopedic surgeons with the ability to form stem cell implants with unprecedented precision to fill cartilage tissue defects.

04.04.2016
Other life sciences

Tau protein and memory: new data

The results of a new study suggest that the KIBRA protein may be the missing link between tau protein and memory loss in Alzheimer's disease.

04.04.2016
Other life sciences

Life - saving slush

In a cave near Krasnoyarsk, scientists have discovered bacteria that can become a source of new antibiotics.

04.04.2016
Cellular technologies

Real artificial leather

Japanese biologists for the first time created a full-fledged artificial skin using reprogrammed stem cells and so-called embryoid bodies that they grew from these cells.

04.04.2016
Other life sciences

Gel for male contraception

The gel injected into the vas deferens provides long-term and potentially reversible contraception, but so far only in rabbits.

01.04.2016
Genetic engineering

Programming language for DNA

Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a DNA programming language that will allow a person without advanced knowledge of biology to create bacteria with the desired properties.

01.04.2016
New in Gerontology

Biomarkers of aging

Biologist Alexey Moskalev – about the signs of aging, biological age and the study of centenarians.

31.03.2016
Bioethics

To die comfortably

American scientists conducted a review of the literature on death and dying, and as a result identified 11 main signs of a good (as comfortable as possible for a person) death.

31.03.2016
Genetics

How Diet affected Genes

Researchers have discovered a gene whose different variants (alleles) favor a vegetarian diet in the population of India or are adapted to a fish diet in the indigenous population of Greenland.

30.03.2016
Prolonging youth

How to stop aging

Aging can be treated – this formulation is not as absurd as it may seem. The scientific director of Gero, Peter Fedichev, talks about the fight against aging.

30.03.2016
New in Gerontology

Aging and metabolomics

With age, the level of antioxidants and substances associated with physical activity decreases in the blood, and the number of substances indicating impaired liver or kidney function increases.

30.03.2016
Other life sciences

Obesity and prediabetes

Isolation of DNA from adipose tissue cells can provoke chronic inflammation, which causes related diseases such as prediabetes – insulin resistance.

30.03.2016
Cellular technologies

Quality standard for stem cells

In regenerative medicine, it is better to use the standard method of obtaining stem cells.

29.03.2016
Genetics

The story of a first-hand discovery

The author of this article describes in detail the history of the discovery of the causes and mechanisms of a rare hereditary disease, in which he was lucky to take part. The results of the work are published in Nature Immunology.

29.03.2016