Life Sciences

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Cellular technologies

Will astrocytes help with spinal cord injury?

For the spinal cord, the same trick that has been done for a long time for the brain has been repeated: spinal neurons were obtained from auxiliary cells of nervous tissue – astrocytes.

27.02.2014
Biomedicine

Protease inhibitors against antibiotic resistance

Low molecular weight inhibitors disrupt the order of amino acids necessary for the coupling of bacterial protease ClpP subunits, or convert the amino acid responsible for its work into another. Both variants lead to a loss of protease activity.

26.02.2014
Other life sciences

The main thing is that the suit should sit

A woman paralyzed from the waist down was able to give up a wheelchair and take an independent walk thanks to a robotic exoskeleton, created for the first time by individual measurements on a 3-D printer.

26.02.2014
Biomedicine

Early diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

Scientists from the Technical University of Munich have found out that the development of multiple sclerosis can be predicted by a blood test several years before the first symptoms of the disease appear.

25.02.2014
Biomedicine

No more complicated than a pregnancy test

The method of rapid cancer diagnosis developed at MIT can be modified to detect various types or stages of the disease and has already been applied to the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases.

25.02.2014
Biomedicine

New cartilage can be grown directly in the patient's body

By combining synthetic substrate material with viral vectors for gene delivery, researchers from Duke University have come close to the possibility of growing new cartilage directly in the patient's body.

24.02.2014
Biomedicine

Time to start phages

WHO is literally crying out about the catastrophic situation with antibiotics. Now many laboratories are thinking about how it would be possible to use both bacteriophages and their components against bacterial infections.

24.02.2014
New in Gerontology

microRNA and aging

As fruit flies age, more microRNAs accumulate on the Ago2 protein complex, and, consequently, microRNAs influence aging-related events.

24.02.2014
Biomedicine

Multiple sclerosis is diagnosed by antibodies

When an RNA aptamer, to which a molecule of the luminous protein obelin is attached, meets with an antibody typical of multiple sclerosis, the protein is activated and emits a quantum of light.

24.02.2014
New in Gerontology

Muscle hormone is an indicator of biological age

There is a molecular relationship between physical activity and healthy aging, in which the level of the hormone irisin in the blood is a kind of indicator of "biological age".

21.02.2014
Genetic engineering

Another method of gene therapy of infarction

With the help of a gene that regulates the cell cycle, it is possible to make the post-infarction heart muscle recover at the expense of real muscle cells, and not with the help of connective tissue.

21.02.2014
Other life sciences

Brain – computer – spinal cord interface

With the help of implants inserted into the brain and spinal cord of different monkeys, it was possible to achieve the transmission of motor nerve impulses from one individual to another. In the future, this technology should restore mobility to paralyzed people.

20.02.2014
Biomedicine

Fecal Therapy: only $250 per serving

The world's first "fecalobank" has already provided 13 hospitals and clinics in the United States with more than 135 doses of tested, filtered, frozen and ready-to-use fecal samples at a price of $ 250 per dose.

20.02.2014
Other life sciences

Owners of Androids, help proteomics!

The "Power Sleep" program allows you to use the computing power of mobile phones to process the SIMAP database on the similarity of different types of proteins in order to use the patterns found in various fields of medicine.

20.02.2014