Life Sciences

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Genetics

The risk of genetic testing

Modern genetic tests cannot yet predict the risk of developing diseases with high accuracy. Scientists ask patients to be skeptical about the results of genetic tests and not to make important medical decisions in accordance with them.

29.05.2015
Biomedicine

How to overcome the ineffectiveness of melanoma immunotherapy

In some patients, cancer cells produce molecules that "scare away" cells of the immune system. After injection of dendritic cells into the tumor, T-lymphocytes began to actively penetrate there, and the use of immunotherapeutic drugs gave results.

28.05.2015
Genetics

Two more nucleotides were added to the genetic alphabet

The authors of the study have already synthesized DNA consisting of six nucleotides – the usual G, A, C and T, as well as new ones – Z and P. Scientists hope that their research data will expand the possibilities of synthetic biology.

28.05.2015
Other life sciences

A useful side effect of Neupogen

The drug, which has been used for a long time to relieve the side effects of chemotherapy, was allowed to be used in the United States to eliminate the consequences of radiation exposure during nuclear disasters.

28.05.2015
Other life sciences

Alzheimer's Disease Prevention Experiment

American scientists have announced the launch of a project during which they will analyze the effect of an experimental drug against Alzheimer's disease with the participation of people at risk, but without symptoms of the disease.

27.05.2015
Biomedicine

Viral immunotherapy against melanoma

Phase III clinical trials have confirmed the ability of the modified herpes virus to effectively destroy the cells of the most dangerous skin cancer.

27.05.2015
Cellular technologies

Hair cells "from a test tube"

Bioengineers from the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Lisbon and University College London have developed a method by which it is possible to grow hair cells from embryonic stem cells – cells that are located in the inner ear.

26.05.2015
Other life sciences

Doshirak chromosomes

The Lomonosov supercomputer helped researchers from Moscow State University solve one of the main mysteries of molecular biology and show the benefits of DNA stacking according to the "doshirak" principle.

25.05.2015
Other life sciences

Nematodes do not lose their memory after freezing

The use of cryonic technologies does not destroy the long-term memory of the simplest multicellular organisms. Nematode worms Caenorhabditis elegans were used as experimental subjects.

25.05.2015
Biomedicine

Cancer vaccines

Anti–cancer vaccines are a good alternative to traditional treatments that lead to serious side effects and are often useless in the later stages of the disease.

25.05.2015
Nanotechnology

Standards for nanotechnologists

The National Council for Professional Qualifications under the President of the Russian Federation has approved 10 professional standards for the nanoindustry.

25.05.2015
Genetic engineering

Yeast with human genes

Geneticists have successfully transplanted about two hundred human genes into yeast DNA, replacing fragments of the fungus genome similar in their functions, which once again confirmed the common evolutionary origin of all living beings on Earth.

22.05.2015