Life Sciences

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Biomedicine

Bioinformatics – Medicine

Why obesity is "contagious", the microbiota is our everything and how important it is to study the genetic composition of the bacteria around us, St. Petersburg scientists have investigated.

11.08.2015
Other life sciences

Burns and injuries without scars and scars

Bioengineers led by specialists from the Johns Hopkins University Medical School (USA) have discovered a receptor that not only helps heal wounds, but also gives the skin an aesthetic appearance after healing.

10.08.2015
Biomedicine

Victory over Ebola

A clinical study conducted in Guinea showed that people who were given one dose of the vaccine receive one hundred percent protection from infection with Ebola when they come into contact with patients starting from the 10th day after injection.

09.08.2015
Nanotechnology

Scientists presented a review of liposomes

Thousands of different publications are devoted to liposomes, they are actively studied in many laboratories around the world. A new article in Chemical Review contains a detailed list of the main achievements in this field.

07.08.2015
Prolonging youth

Diet for the brain

Nutritionists from Rush University Medical Center (USA) have developed a new MIND diet, which, as studies have shown, is able to support the cognitive functions of the brain in the elderly and slow down its aging by 7.5 years.

06.08.2015
Prolonging youth

Young blood for old people

Experiments on transfusion of "young blood" to old mice have yielded amazing results, and experiments are now being carried out on humans.

04.08.2015
Other life sciences

Free radicals and broken knees

The increased content of free radicals in the epidermis accelerates the healing of injuries in young animals, but with age this effect changes to the opposite: skin cells stop dividing, the stock of stem cells decreases, and the skin begins to age rapidly.

04.08.2015
Theories of aging

A new reason has been added to aging

With age, proteins in the cell begin to fold poorly due to changes in the redox potential at the assembly sites of protein molecules.

04.08.2015
Genetic engineering

Thieves are calculated using synthetic DNA

SelectaDNA products are sold in sets for different occasions – spray, gel and other modifications. The manufacturer calls the working substance synthetic DNA.

04.08.2015
Cellular technologies

Muscles grown in a Petri dish

A large group of bioengineers from France and the USA managed to grow real muscle tissue cells from human stem cells in the laboratory for the first time.

03.08.2015
Genetic engineering

The Era of genetically modified animals

Fish, mosquitoes, cows… Many genetic tests are already being carried out on animals to improve the efficiency of cattle breeding and create new medicines.

02.08.2015
Genetic engineering

Another super rice

Researchers from the Swedish Agricultural University have integrated a gene from barley into rice, which made it possible to obtain a culture characterized by increased yield and reduced emission of methane, a gas involved in the intensification of the greenhouse effect.

30.07.2015
Other life sciences

Synthetic ribosome

Biologists have created the first artificial analogue of the ribosome in the history of mankind – the key part of the cell responsible for assembling protein molecules, and taught it to respond to signals that do not exist in nature.

30.07.2015
Genetics

Five prostate cancers

Scientists from the UK have established that there are five different types of prostate cancer, and have found a way to diagnose them differentially. This will help doctors choose the best therapy for each patient.

30.07.2015
Other life sciences

Cloud computing for biomedicine

Processing, storing and transmitting volumes of information, or "big data", is a very difficult task. The Moscow EMC Center has developed a platform that allows you to solve this problem.

29.07.2015
Other life sciences

Artificial Intelligence made in China

The head of the Beijing Genomics Institute, Jun Wang, surprised the scientific community by resigning his powers in early July 2015. Now he has announced his desire to focus on research in the field of artificial intelligence.

29.07.2015
Other life sciences

Hearts are trumps

Earthworms is a universal factory for the production of eco–friendly and effective fertilizers, high-quality food protein, as well as biologically active components for pharmaceutical and cosmetic preparations.

28.07.2015
Genetics

Give us your genes

The DNA catalog of every inhabitant of Iceland, together with genealogical and medical data about the inhabitants of this island, will become a unique resource that will help scientists identify the causes of terrible diseases and suggest methods of their treatment.

28.07.2015