Life Sciences

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Cloning

A woolly elephant is being blown out of a fly again

One of the unique finds for the study of ancient animals was the mammoth skin. Korean colleagues of NEFU scientists believe that it is the skin that is the best material for cloning attempts by isolating viable cells.

08.10.2015
Other life sciences

Chemputer – Abiotic peptide synthesizer

Scientists from the University of Glasgow have created a unique computer that will study and analyze the formation of combinations of constituent parts during the construction of a peptide chain.

08.10.2015
Other life sciences

Melts in the mouth, not in the hands (With)

For some reason, the inventors of slow-melting ice cream themselves did not try it, but they plan to commercialize their development and establish mass production of the product.

08.10.2015
Cellular technologies

Buy mini-brains – 4 pieces for a dollar!

The cost of growing one "mini-brain" is only a quarter of a dollar, and in the near future they will be able to become a convenient and affordable object for conducting a lot of different research and experiments in the field of neurobiology, medicine, etc.

07.10.2015
Cellular technologies

Embryonic stem cells restore vision

Scientists from the University of Montreal propose using human embryonic cells to grow retinal cells from them that can perceive light, and then implant them into the eye.

07.10.2015
Genetics

Mutant neurons

A research team from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute found out that the genome of a single neuron can contain more than a thousand point mutations.

07.10.2015
Biomedicine

Injection instead of castration

If the DNA vaccine works on cats and dogs in the same way as on mice, then in the future developments can be used to create long-acting contraceptives for humans.

06.10.2015
Cellular technologies

In search of cells for IPSC

There is still a major problem between the discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells and saving the world from all ailments – methods of inducing pluripotency in cells.

06.10.2015
Genetics

Perfect genetic knowledge

Genomics is just the beginning: the total mass of all DNA on Earth is 50 billion tons. What will happen when we get our hands on the whole biocode?

06.10.2015
Genetics

"The binge gene"

Scientists have found a possible genetic and biological explanation for why some people often go into binge drinking – their fault may be special mutations in the ALDH1a1 gene responsible for the withdrawal of alcohol from the body.

05.10.2015
Cellular technologies

Hidden risks of mitochondrial donation

While there are doubts about the safety of combining genomic DNA with arbitrary mitochondrial DNA, it is possible to select a donor with mtDNA of the same haplogroup as the recipient. British doctors are going to do just that.

05.10.2015
Cellular technologies

New materials and fabric engineering

MIT Professor Robert Langer on the ways of forming new tissues, polymer frameworks and the use of computer technology in biology.

02.10.2015
Other life sciences

How neurons recover

The expression "nerve cells do not regenerate" is one of the leaders among the commonly used statements about the human brain, although its falsity has been proven for 20 years.

02.10.2015
Nanotechnology

Protein renaturation

The method developed by Russian and Israeli scientists is able not only to restore the function of proteins after temperature denaturation, but also to increase their initial activity almost twice.

02.10.2015
Prolonging youth

Slowing Down Aging: Are we ready? (4)

In the fourth and final part of the article, the remaining pharmacological and some other methods aimed at slowing down the aging process are considered.

01.10.2015
Genetic engineering

Buy microswinks!

Genome editing technologies have led to the emergence of an unexpected by–product - tiny pigs, which the Chinese Institute of Genomic Research is going to sell as pets.

01.10.2015
Genetics

The end of the beginning of genome decoding

The most important result of 1000 Genomes Project is the compilation of a catalog of human gene variations and the analysis of methods and tools that can be used for further sequencing of the human genome. This catalog is completely free and is publicly available.

01.10.2015
Biomedicine

How a drug for Alzheimer's disease is being developed in Russia

The essence of the project "Targeted design, synthesis and research of the biological activity of multi–target compounds as innovative drugs for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases" is to create multi-purpose drugs to combat Alzheimer's disease.

01.10.2015