Life Sciences

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Nanotechnology

Tablets of the future: nanoparticles

If you are a patient and have a choice, it will be made in favor of medications that are taken orally. It seems that in the coming years this phrase may well be confirmed by the practice of using tablets based on nanoparticles.

29.11.2013
Cellular technologies

Umbilical cord skin

For the first time, employees of the University of Granada were able to grow artificial skin from stem cells obtained from Warton's jelly (the connective tissue of the umbilical cord).

29.11.2013
New in Gerontology

The worse with sex, the shorter life

Prolonged waiting and willingness to have sex without "reward" had an extremely negative impact on the health of male fruit flies and significantly shortened their lives.

29.11.2013
Other life sciences

Computer super-meta-analysis

The program, created by IBM and Baylor Medical College, "reads" scientific articles in the amount of tens of thousands of pieces. And "digs out" new scientific knowledge in them, reducing the cost of developing new drugs many times.

28.11.2013
Nanotechnology

Bactericidal coatings imitating the surface of insect wings

The substance, accidentally obtained in the 1980s and once considered promising for solar panels and photodetectors, is structurally similar to... dragonfly wings. And it has the same excellent bactericidal properties!

28.11.2013
Other life sciences

Personal Genome Project is looking for volunteers

Within its framework, it is planned to sequence the genomes of one hundred thousand people who are ready to give up their right to medical secrecy for the sake of science. Their genetic data and records from medical records will be available for research in the field of personalized medicine.

28.11.2013
Other life sciences

Revolution in synthetic biology: prospects and risks

What benefits can research in synthetic biology bring? Supporters believe that this field of biology will transform the world like a revolution in information technology, but opponents are skeptical.

27.11.2013
Other life sciences

An implant that prevents gluttony and obesity

Swiss biotechnologists have created an implant containing genetically modified cells that automatically controls the level of satiety and hunger hormones in the blood, forcing experimental mice to eat less.

27.11.2013
Genetics

About the benefits of archived data

Having collected a huge number of electronic case histories of various patients, it was possible to establish new coincidences between nucleotide variations in DNA and numerous diseases, including oncological ones.

26.11.2013
Biomedicine

Four-fold increase in the effectiveness of glioblastoma treatment

Half of the participants in the second phase of clinical trials of the experimental method of immunotherapy for glioblastoma multiforme lived more than five years after diagnosis, which is four times higher than the average with standard therapy.

26.11.2013
New in Gerontology

Aging embryos

The authors of two studies published in Cell are convinced that the phenomenon of senescence, previously associated only with pathological conditions, including aging and cancer, is a normal and important process of embryogenesis.

25.11.2013
Genetics

Suicide markers

American scientists have found "suicide markers" that allow not only to identify people who are prone to suicide, but also to track the emotional state of the patient in dynamics.

25.11.2013
Biomedicine

Anticancer microflora

Two groups of researchers simultaneously published articles showing that the presence or absence of the "right" bacteria in the intestine affects the effectiveness of anti-cancer therapy.

25.11.2013
Biomedicine

A new era in oncology

At the European Cancer Congress, discoveries and developments in the field of immunotherapy were called a new era in oncology. However, targeted therapy, which became a revolution 15 years ago, also continues to develop rapidly.

25.11.2013