Life Sciences

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Genetic engineering

Gene therapy restores immunity in severe congenital pathology

The new method of gene therapy makes it possible to update the immune system of children and young adults with an X-linked form of severe combined immunodeficiency – a hereditary disease that mainly affects male infants.

08.12.2015
Other life sciences

Unreliable telomeres

Studies conducted by scientists at St. Petersburg State University have shown that telomeres are one of the most unstable sequences in the genome.

08.12.2015
Biomedicine

To victory over troubles

"Scientific foundations of the effectiveness and safety of medicines" – this is the topic of the regular session of the General Meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Our materials tell about the problems that are planned to be discussed at this forum.

08.12.2015
Genetic engineering

Editing human genes: take your time!

The participants of the summit of leading scientists from the UK, USA and China considered it premature to introduce technologies for editing the genes of a child before his birth.

08.12.2015
Prolonging youth

Epigenomics of longevity

A detailed study of the epigenome gives biologists the opportunity to get out of the fog of numerous theories of aging and more accurately understand the root causes of this phenomenon, as well as age-related diseases.

07.12.2015
Nanotechnology

Bomb the tumor

Liposomal nanobombs, which explode under the action of infrared radiation, make it possible to deliver RNA-based anticancer drugs to cancer cells.

07.12.2015
Genetics

Obesity caused epigenetic changes in sperm

Healthy men and obese patients have a large number of epigenetic differences in all body tissues, including sperm. The latter can directly lead to the transmission of the tendency to obesity to children.

07.12.2015
Theories of aging

Aging of cells and aging of the body

More and more data indicate that aging is not the result of a harmful program, but a consequence of excesses in the work of mechanisms that, with moderate activity, are beneficial.

04.12.2015
Prolonging youth

Another potential geroprotector

The antidepressant mianserin increases the total lifespan of C.elegans nematodes by a third, mainly due to the "young adult" phase.

04.12.2015
Nanotechnology

Stroke diagnosis: fast, simple and convenient

A new technique based on the detection of biomarkers contained in the blood makes it possible to diagnose a stroke at the patient's bedside in less than 10 minutes.

03.12.2015
Genetics

Have the tardigrades been slandered?

Biologists from the University of Edinburgh have discovered that the massive borrowing of foreign genes, traces of which were recently allegedly found in the genome of slow walkers, may actually be the result of pollution.

03.12.2015
Other life sciences

Mikhail Gelfand: "Science benefits by its very existence"

A well-known Russian bioinformatician told how to understand biology using a computer, answered the question whether it is possible to clone a mammoth, and explained how the interaction of science and society is similar to the relationship of aphids and ants.

03.12.2015
New in Gerontology

Thirty Aging Genes

Worms, fish and mice have only 30 common genes that significantly affect the aging process. Disabling one of them increased the average life expectancy of nematodes to 25%.

03.12.2015
Genetic engineering

Genomic engineering

Geneticist David Sinclair – about the genes of long-lived families, manipulation of human germ cells and the fight against breast cancer.

02.12.2015
Genetic engineering

50 shades of DNA: genetic engineering of the penis

Is it possible to improve the regeneration of the penis, slow down its aging and maintain an erection, or change the size with the help of DNA molecules and proteins encoded by them? (18+)

02.12.2015
Nanotechnology

A package for the brain

The method of drug delivery using nanocontainers can be compared to launching a rocket. It does not matter what kind of "filling" it has, it is important that the "parcel" gets to the addressee at the right place and time.

02.12.2015