Life Sciences

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Genetic engineering

Vegetable fish oil

The British Ministry of Environment, Food and Agriculture has approved a project to grow a genetically engineered crop to produce a synthetic form of fish oil.

21.04.2014
Biomedicine

New antitumor vaccine shows great promise

The first clinical study demonstrated the efficacy and safety of a new antitumor vaccine that causes the formation of immunity through exposure to dendritic cells.

21.04.2014
Other life sciences

Cyborgs are coming

The tasks of the DARPA Biological Technology Department will be the development of technologies for connecting the brain to computers, the creation of artificial biological materials and the development of biological weapons detectors.

21.04.2014
Biomedicine

Measles medicine successfully tested on ferrets

Currently, there are no drugs for the specific treatment of measles. The first antiviral anti-measles drug developed by an international group of scientists has shown good results when tested on an animal model.

18.04.2014
Biomedicine

Neutrophils will help to identify asthma

Neutrophils of asthma sufferers move slower than their "colleagues" from healthy people. The speed of their movement can become a characteristic for a simple and accurate way to diagnose asthma.

18.04.2014
New in Gerontology

Dogs will help to understand the issues of aging

Dogs have a huge potential as a model system for studying human aging, the use of which should make a huge contribution to the development of this research area.

17.04.2014
Cellular technologies

Erythrocytes in industrial production

The Wellcome Trust Charitable Foundation has allocated 5 million pounds for the development of technology for the mass production of transfused erythrocytes from stem cells.

16.04.2014
Genetic engineering

A goat named Gluck against a hereditary disease

Brazilian scientists have created a genetically modified goat that will produce milk with the enzyme glucocerebrosidase for the treatment of a genetic disease – Gaucher disease.

16.04.2014
Cellular technologies

Bioengineered esophaguses have been tested on rats

Alexander Sotnichenko, a graduate student from the Kuban State Medical University, who was an intern at the Karolinska Institute, took part in the creation of the world's first bioengineered esophagus.

16.04.2014
Genetic engineering

Cheap biological clock "in vitro"

The new model does not require the use of expensive equipment and can be used even in small laboratories, which distinguishes it from other cellular models of biological clocks.

16.04.2014
Other life sciences

Don't quarrel, eat some sweets!

According to a new study, the higher a person's blood sugar level was, the less angry they were with the person they lived with. The authors believe that it's about improving self-control: glucose feeds the brain, and it begins to better manage emotions.

15.04.2014
Genetics

Designer kids: technology is improving

With the help of the new Matchright technology, it will be possible to learn about the health and external features of the child even before conception.

15.04.2014
Other life sciences

RNA transmits the effects of childhood stress to descendants

The psychological stress experienced by an individual in childhood can affect the behavior and metabolism of the next two generations, for which special regulatory RNAs traveling with spermatozoa should be blamed.

15.04.2014
Cellular technologies

Three-dimensional artificial tumor

The model, consisting of a skeleton of fibrous proteins covered with a layer of HeLa cells, provides a realistic three-dimensional simulation of the tumor environment. It can be used to search for new anti-cancer drugs, to study the mechanisms of development and spread of tumors in the body.

15.04.2014
Nanotechnology

Better than natural

A hydrogel based on synthetic collagen binds platelets and activates them, promotes their aggregation. This significantly accelerates the stopping of bleeding, and at the same time not the slightest signs of inflammation are detected.

14.04.2014
Cellular technologies

Bioengineered cartilage for plastic surgery

Swiss researchers have successfully reconstructed nasal defects using bioengineered cartilage grown in the laboratory from the cells of five patients.

14.04.2014
Biomedicine

Alzheimer's disease: a new drug candidate

An international team of scientists has shown that caffeine is able to restrain the development of complexes of excessively phosphorylated tau proteins, the presence of which is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.

11.04.2014
Cellular technologies

For the first time in the world

A group led by Anthony Atala conducted the first successful experiment to implant vaginas grown in the laboratory from their own cells to four teenage girls born with a rare genetic anomaly.

11.04.2014
Prolonging youth

Waiting for the "old age pill"

Brian Kennedy, president of the Buck Institute for Aging Research, told the newspaper.En" about how many drugs against aging humanity will soon have and what principles they may have.

11.04.2014