Life Sciences

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Genetics

Alzheimer's disease and cardiovascular diseases

An international team of researchers has demonstrated a partial coincidence between the genetic variants associated with Alzheimer's disease and two significant risk factors for the development of diseases of the cardiovascular system.

20.04.2015
Other life sciences

Diagnostics using a smartphone: details

The new molecular diagnostic system is probably one of the simplest, fastest, cheapest and at the same time working systems that can be imagined.

17.04.2015
Genetics

Evolution from the Negro to the Dutchman

Two recent studies touch on the problem of natural selection among Homo sapiens, which I would really like to believe in, even if it is politically incorrect.

17.04.2015
Cellular technologies

The heart in the web

A substrate of genetically engineered fibers of the protein spidroin, which spider threads consist of, turned out to be the best basis for growing cells from heart tissues, scientists from MIPT write in an article published in the journal PLOS ONE.

17.04.2015
Other life sciences

Precision medicine – state support

The aim of the project is to develop approaches to the treatment of patients taking into account information from their medical history, genetic predispositions, economic and social status.

16.04.2015
Biomedicine

Promising drug against multiple sclerosis: new successes

In a phase 2 clinical trial, the experimental drug anti-LINGO-1 for the treatment of multiple sclerosis demonstrated the ability to restore myelin, the protective sheath of nerve fibers that is destroyed in this disease.

16.04.2015
Nanotechnology

High-speed delivery of bulky cargo to cages

The new device allows nanoparticles, enzymes, antibodies, bacteria and other "bulky cargo" to be delivered inside mammalian cells at a rate of up to 100,000 cells per minute.

15.04.2015
Biomedicine

RNA interference - great hopes in the fight against hemophilia

Experiments on mice and primates have shown that subcutaneous administration of the experimental drug ALN-AT3 provides dose-dependent prolonged inactivation of antithrombin, contributing to the normalization of blood clotting processes.

15.04.2015
Nanotechnology

Find a needle in a haystack

Researchers from China have developed silicon chips doped with silver nanoparticles that can quickly identify various pathogens in quantities amounting to several hundred bacterial cells per milliliter of blood.

15.04.2015
Genetics

The rats that root for us

Laboratory rats are an excellent object for modeling a large number of human diseases, studying pathological processes, creating medicines and developing preventive measures.

14.04.2015
Genetics

Sometimes short telomeres prolong life

Genetically determined shortening of telomeres in cancer patients has a positive effect by suppressing uncontrolled division of malignant cells.

13.04.2015
Other life sciences

The big neuron

The goal of the BigNeuron project is to create a reliable and as accurate as possible three–dimensional reconstruction of thousands of connections that each individual neuron forms.

13.04.2015
Other life sciences

The Changing Face of Death

With all the inevitability of death, its causes are constantly changing, and those diseases that are now perceived as a death sentence will not necessarily retain their ominous status in a few years.

10.04.2015
Cellular technologies

Blood vessels from amniotic stem cells

The ability of amniotic stem cells to promote the growth of working blood vessels in combination with the technology of tissue growth on a hydrogel framework can provide a breakthrough in regenerative medicine.

10.04.2015
Theories of aging

How we age

Starting from DNA damage and ending with disruption of intercellular interactions, aging is a mysterious and versatile process.

10.04.2015