Life Sciences

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Bioethics

Children to order

Will humanity face any new ethical problems when it becomes possible to choose the genetic characteristics of embryos?

17.03.2014
Other life sciences

Live biosensors for medicine and pharmacology

A universal mouse model, each cell of which expresses a fluorescent "biosensor", allows you to observe diseased cells and drugs injected into the body in real time in three dimensions.

14.03.2014
Bioethics

When the medicine is more bitter than the disease

Chemotherapy in patients at the terminal stage of cancer, as a rule, is not justified, because they do not live longer than those who refused treatment, while experiencing more severe torment.

14.03.2014
Biomedicine

Fecal therapy has been started in Novosibirsk

For the first time in Russia, the Center for New Medical Technologies of the Novosibirsk Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences began to use a newly appeared method of therapy – fecal transplantation

14.03.2014
Genetics

Genome-wide sequencing: beware of mistakes!

Existing technologies of genome-wide DNA sequencing, with all their perfection, still do not accurately read some genes that may be related to a particular disease.

13.03.2014
Biomedicine

Progress in stroke treatment?

Consisting of five amino acids, the peptide increases the time required to combat the effects of an ischemic stroke to four hours from the moment the artery is blocked.

13.03.2014
Genetics

IRX3 – the main regulator of "obesity genes"?

The IRX3 gene controls body weight and determines the composition of its tissues. This gene is a "switch" that controls the operation of several genetic "programs" in cells at once, scientists from the University of Chicago found out.

13.03.2014
Genetic engineering

Anti-cancer viruses

German scientists have developed several variants of a genetically modified measles virus that attack cancer cells without harming healthy tissues.

13.03.2014
Biomedicine

Blood test predicts risk of Alzheimer's disease

For the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, it is proposed to use lipids of the membrane of nerve cells, which after the death of neurons enter the blood. By changing their blood levels, future cognitive impairments can be predicted.

12.03.2014
Other life sciences

Gemini in Space

NASA plans to send one of the identical twins to the ISS in order to fully assess the impact of space flight on the human body at the molecular, physiological and psychological level.

12.03.2014
Biomedicine

The cure for senile sclerosis

Some forms of age-related memory disorders can be cured with gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor blockers.

12.03.2014
Biomedicine

HIV protection and contraceptive in one ring

New vaginal rings with an antiretroviral drug allow you to kill two birds with one stone at once – to avoid unwanted pregnancy and avoid HIV infection.

07.03.2014
Prolonging youth

Train, Grandma!

To stay in shape, older women need to regularly practice strength exercises, reinforcing them, like real athletes, with meat food.

07.03.2014
Cellular technologies

Cardiomyocytes from ESCs: the main thing is the right substrate

A group of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison obtained a pure population of cardiomyocytes from human embryonic stem cells. A substrate with a system of channels of a certain size played a decisive role in this success.

06.03.2014
Prolonging youth

Craig Venter has joined the Anti-aging Fighters

The ultimate goal of the new Human Longevity company is not to prolong life itself, but to increase the duration of the period during which a person retains good health and can conduct active and highly productive activities.

06.03.2014
Biomedicine

Treat HIV infection before infection

The supply of antiviral medicine created directly in the tissues of the body allows you to protect yourself from HIV infection for quite a long time, neglecting other methods of prevention.

06.03.2014