Life Sciences

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Biomedicine

HIV: a new hope

A group of scientists led by Professor Michael Farzan published an article in the journal Nature about a successful trial on monkeys of a promising method of treating and preventing HIV infection.

25.02.2015
Cellular technologies

Will a liver transplant be replaced by cell therapy?

In patients with liver diseases or liver failure, an alternative to organ transplantation has appeared: transplantation of individual hepatocytes. Such a procedure can replace 10% of the liver with healthy cells from a deceased donor.

24.02.2015
Prolonging youth

SkQ for internal use

A prototype of a concentrated solution of "Skulachev ions" for oral administration has already been created. The first clinical trials of the future drug on volunteers are beginning.

24.02.2015
Genetic engineering

Mouse brain grew thanks to human gene

"What we have found is only a small part of the genetic background of why our brains are noticeably larger than those of all other primates. Our research has very clearly shown how complex the changes that our ancestors experienced during evolution were."

20.02.2015
Genetic engineering

Spider venom instead of viagra?

Scientists have proposed using the venom of Brazilian wandering spiders as a substitute for viagra for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (impotence) disorders.

19.02.2015
Nanotechnology

Theranostics at Saratov University

The laboratory "Remotely controlled systems for Theranostics", created at the Saratov State University at the end of last year, is working on the creation of nanocapsules comparable to the size of a human cell.

19.02.2015
Other life sciences

Binoculars in the eyes

Contact lenses controlled by special "smart" glasses allow you to change the scale of the image, providing both normal vision and magnification up to 2.8 times.

19.02.2015
Genetic engineering

Giant E. coli

Microbiologists from the University of Montreal managed to obtain a strain of extremely long E.coli. In size, they exceed normal E. coli by 750 times, reaching a length of three quarters of a millimeter.

19.02.2015
Genetic engineering

A new word in gene therapy

Bioengineers from the University of Texas at Dallas have created a new gene delivery system that avoids the risks associated with the permanent residence of a therapeutic gene in a cell.

19.02.2015
Biomedicine

My DNA was hacked

It is expected that in 7-10 years, the cost of technology for DNA synthesis will fall so much that there will be talk about the possibility of development conditionally "in the garage". It is possible that in 7 years we will be talking about the fact that "my DNA was hacked."

18.02.2015
Other life sciences

Antibodies by inheritance

It is believed that the phenotype of an organism is determined by the genotype. Recently, the epigenetic theory has been actively developing, according to which not only genes are inherited, but also the level of their activity. Now the mechanism of inheritance of microflora affecting the immune system of offspring has been added to them.

18.02.2015
Prolonging youth

Four methods that can cure old age

How doctors will be able to prolong our lives and delay the arrival of old age, says Alexey Moskalev, a specialist in the field of gerontology.

17.02.2015
Nanotechnology

Nanoantioxidants have confirmed their potential

Injections of rapidly neutralizing reactive oxygen species nanoparticles will help in the treatment of stroke, heart attack, traumatic brain and other injuries, as well as during medical procedures, including organ transplantation.

17.02.2015
Biomedicine

Clostridium clostridium wolf

The fight against the bacterium Clostridium difficile is complicated by its resistance to most known antibiotics. But C.difficile can be successfully suppressed not with drugs, but with the help of a related species – C.scindens.

17.02.2015