Life Sciences

Found results: 11545

Genetics

Sunday reading (15.05)

Channels in the skull, sucrose in algae, the connection of chronic pain with injury and NSAID intake, buzzing bats and much more.

16.05.2022
Cellular technologies

Thawed spermatogonia

Rat sperm progenitor cells remained functional after 23 years of freezing.

13.05.2022
Cellular technologies

Protection against side effect

The introduction of mesenchymal stem cells protects pancreatic beta cells from death caused by cancer immunotherapy.

13.05.2022
Nanotechnology

Silk Tendons

A gel seeded with stem cells, on a framework of silk proteins, accelerates the healing of tendons.

13.05.2022
Other life sciences

Vindictive cells

The "memory" of hematopoietic bone marrow stem cells can support chronic inflammation.

13.05.2022
Genetics

Fertility fee

A change in the gene that brought cancer risks to humanity, at the same time helped us improve fertility, scientists believe.

13.05.2022
Genetics

From snakes to frogs

Horizontal gene transfer is a natural process of transferring genetic material not by inheritance. However, getting someone else's DNA is not easy.

13.05.2022
Genetics

A unique case

The twins, who grew up in the USA and Korea, allowed us to study the degree of influence of heredity and upbringing on personality traits and intelligence.

12.05.2022
Genetics

Shifters in chromosomes

Inversions in the genome are one of the most common mutational processes in humans.

12.05.2022
Biomedicine

Anti-cancer Ketone

Beta-hydroxybutyrate, which is produced in the liver in response to a low-carb diet, suppresses the growth of colorectal tumors.

12.05.2022
Genetic engineering

Alcohol and epigenetics

Experiments on rodents have shown that the CRISPR-dCas9 system allows you to normalize the work of genes and get rid of alcoholism.

12.05.2022
Biomedicine

Effective, but expensive

Tirzepatide, obviously, will need to be taken for life, and a monthly course of a similar weight loss remedy costs $ 1,349.02.

12.05.2022
Prolonging youth

Diet and mitochondria

A short-term low-calorie diet significantly slowed down the aging processes in the brain and other organs in elderly rats.

12.05.2022
Biomedicine

Rejuvenating feces

Signs of aging of the brain, intestines and eyes can even be reversed with fecal transplants.

12.05.2022
Other life sciences

New Alzheimer's biomarker

The risk of dementia can be determined by the level of a certain protein in the blood before the appearance of memory problems and changes in behavior.

11.05.2022
Cellular technologies

Patient on a chip

A chip the size of a slide can be populated with tissues derived from induced pluripotent cells of a particular person.

11.05.2022
Biomedicine

Fibrosis without biopsy

A simple blood test can replace a painful biopsy to diagnose liver fibrosis.

11.05.2022
Prolonging youth

Liver rejuvenation

Yamanaki transcription factors were able to rejuvenate hepatocytes, which led to improved regeneration of liver tissue in mice.

11.05.2022