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Big Data for Personalized Medicine

Big Data technologies do not just reduce the research time from a whole year to several weeks. They help doctors identify the increased risks of developing new syndromes and recurrent seizures in patients and prescribe appropriate medications in time.

25.12.2013
Biomedicine

New advances in cancer immunotherapy

An improved method of modifying T-lymphocytes with the help of mRNA gives hope for the use of immunotherapy for the treatment of solid tumors.

25.12.2013
Cellular technologies

Artificial kidney – step by step

Scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have achieved differentiation of stem cells into renal tubule cells. This is the fifth article this year about approaches to creating a full-fledged bioengineered kidney.

24.12.2013
Genetics

Shut up, Gen, shut up!

By improving the structure consisting of hairpin RNA and microRNA, scientists were able to significantly increase the efficiency and accuracy of RNA interference for gene silencing (suppression of the synthesis of their proteins, from the English silence - to be silent).

23.12.2013
New in Gerontology

Parasitic DNA multiplies in aging tissues

As cells age, control over the division of so-called "parasitic DNA" weakens, which carries a potential threat to the health of the body.

23.12.2013
Prolonging youth

A new (and reversible!) the cause of aging

Researchers have found a previously unknown cause of mammalian aging. Moreover, they demonstrated how to eliminate this cause and reverse the aging process.

20.12.2013
Cellular technologies

Bone made of hydrogel

Enriched with stem cells and growth factors, the hydrogel can fill the most complex defects of bone tissue. After regeneration of the damage, the hydrogel can be returned to a liquid state and removed from the body.

19.12.2013
Genetics

Intimate life of the neighbors in the cave

The "Denisovans", Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons and the yet unidentified fourth human species not only alternately lived in the same cave for more than ten thousand years, but sometimes interbred with each other.

19.12.2013
New in Gerontology

Changing the concept of population aging

Researchers have revised the approach used to study aging at the population level and developed a new set of methods, the use of which gives a more complete picture of the impact of population aging on society.

19.12.2013
Cellular technologies

Bioprinting: another achievement

Ganglion and glial cells, which make up one of the retinal layers, were able to pass through a bioprinter so that they remained alive.

18.12.2013
Cellular technologies

The Year of Stem Cells

This year, the number of amazing scientific papers devoted to stem cells in one way or another is breaking all records.

18.12.2013
Genetics

The fattest gene

The study of the genome of family members suffering from pathological obesity has shown that the cause of its development may be the loss of functionality of a single gene.

18.12.2013
Cellular technologies

Mini-kidneys "in vitro"

Scientists from the University of Queensland have grown a mini-kidney. This breakthrough opens the way to improving the effectiveness of the treatment of patients with kidney diseases and foreshadows a good future for such an area as medical bioengineering.

18.12.2013