Life Sciences

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Biomedicine

Antigen-specific therapy of autoimmune diseases

The results of a study by specialists from the University of Bristol, they hope, will eventually be able to radically change the approach to the treatment of autoimmune diseases.

05.09.2014
Biomedicine

Will the new "Skulachev ions" help with a stroke?

Chemical compounds that can selectively accumulate in mitochondria, reducing their membrane potential, have neuroprotective properties and can be used for the treatment of stroke and a number of other neurological diseases.

04.09.2014
Other life sciences

Cancer treatment methods

Where can I find a reason to hope that cancer will ever be cured? Rapid progress cannot be expected, but recent studies inspire some optimism.

04.09.2014
Cellular technologies

Artificial liver: made in Russia

Scientists of the V.I. Shumakov Federal Research Center for the first time in Russia created a bio-artificial liver based on cellular technologies and conducted its successful preclinical tests.

04.09.2014
Biomedicine

Will young blood help with Alzheimer's disease?

In October of this year, a clinical trial is due to begin, in which patients with Alzheimer's disease will be injected with the blood of young people in the hope of improving their condition.

02.09.2014
Other life sciences

About the benefits of useless knowledge

Konstantin Severinov, Professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and Rutgers University, USA, spoke about the role of chance in modern biomedical research.

02.09.2014
Other life sciences

Finalists of the competition for the creation of a "Tricorder"

Ten teams of engineers were selected by the jury of the Tricorder XPrize competition in order to translate the idea of the Tricorder device from the Star Trek series into reality and make it accessible to a wide range of consumers.

01.09.2014
Cellular technologies

Picking up the keys to pluripotence

A group of scientists from the University of Michigan has shown that the ASF1A and OCT4 genes active in human eggs, together with the hormone-like substance GDF9, facilitate the process of reprogramming somatic cells into pluripotent ones.

01.09.2014
Other life sciences

And the heart beats like a clock

Swiss scientists have developed a prototype of a heart rate driver working without batteries, which is based on a classic self-winding clockwork.

01.09.2014
Genetics

AIDS resistance

The highest frequency of mutation that spoils the gene and the protein receptor that binds to the immunodeficiency virus is in Northwestern Europe: Finns, Estonians and northern Russians. There, the number of carriers of this mutation reaches 25%.

29.08.2014
Other life sciences

Nanobacteria

The sizes of the vast majority of bacteria well studied by microbiologists are in the range from one to tens and hundreds of microns; the diameter of nanobacteria is no more than 300 nanometers. It is the size of these organisms that has held back the study of nanobacteria for a long time.

28.08.2014
Genetic engineering

HIV is being kicked out with a pitch

Scientists in Nebraska have embedded foreign amino acids into HIV, which are found in nature only in very rare bacteria, and are going to inject this unnatural virus into mice, and in the future even humans, as a vaccine.

28.08.2014
Other life sciences

Cells with antisocial behavior

Interview with biologist Evgeny Cheval about the cell life cycle, oncogenesis and chemotherapy.

27.08.2014
Other life sciences

MAO-A enzyme and prostate cancer

It was found that with an increase in the activity of the MAO-A enzyme, the likelihood of prostate cancer and the appearance of its metastases sharply increases.

27.08.2014
Genetics

Crohn's disease: is the cause in epigenetics?

According to scientists from the University of Edinburgh, Crohn's disease is associated with epigenetic disorders of certain parts of certain genes, which are caused by exposure to environmental factors or even a certain diet.

27.08.2014
Biomedicine

Anti-allergenic microbes

The presence of conditionally pathogenic bacteria of the genus Clostridia in the intestinal microflora protects against food allergies, which makes possible probiotic prevention of acute allergic reactions to food.

26.08.2014