Life Sciences

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Other life sciences

A fifty-dollar genome?

The GENIUS system is designed to read DNA fragments with a length of at least 1000 bases with an accuracy of more than 99.7%. The authors estimate the cost of reading the genome using their system at about $ 50.

15.11.2013
Prolonging youth

Old Age 2.0

Brian Kennedy, Director General of the Institute for Anti-Aging Research, told about the cause of aging and whether it can be "canceled" at the lecture "Old Age 2.0".

15.11.2013
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of heart failure

A preclinical study on a large animal model of heart failure demonstrated the effectiveness of therapy using the SUMO-1 gene.

15.11.2013
New in Gerontology

Is accelerated aging a result of depression?

Clinical depression can accelerate the aging processes in cells, which is manifested not only by a deterioration in well–being, but also at the molecular level - by a reduction in the length of telomeres.

13.11.2013
Other life sciences

Unraveling cancer's resistance to chemotherapy

The method by which the activity of any gene in a cell can be turned on has made it possible to detect all the molecular tricks by which skin cancer cells acquire resistance to chemotherapy.

13.11.2013
Other life sciences

Metabolomics for dummies

Metabolomics, one of the powerful analytical approaches known as "–omics", is designed to determine the chemical profile of cellular metabolism in unprecedented resolution.

12.11.2013
Other life sciences

Mapping cancer markers: Join us!

Another biomedical project, Mapping Cancer Markers, has joined the distributed computing network based on the World Community Grid association.

11.11.2013
Cellular technologies

Induced absolutely pluripotent stem cells

Researchers from the Weizmann Institute have created induced pluripotent stem cells, completely returned to the earliest state, and have learned to suppress the desire of cells to differentiate.

11.11.2013
Prolonging youth

Language? Give me two!

Senile dementia (dementia) in people who speak two languages occurs four and a half years later than in those who speak only their native language.

08.11.2013
Other life sciences

He'll heal like a young man

Scientists have discovered a gene whose activation causes the tissues of adult mice to recover as quickly as in young animals.

08.11.2013
Cellular technologies

An unexpected side effect of blood cancer treatment

Bone marrow transplantation not only saved the life of a ten-year-old child with acute lymphocytic leukemia, but also saved him from peanut allergy, which was previously considered incurable.

08.11.2013
Biomedicine

Micro-RNAs, omnipresent and omnipotent

In 2001, microRNA was recognized as the "molecule of the year" by the journal Science. For 12 years, the number of publications on this topic has exceeded one million.

07.11.2013
Biomedicine

Hepatitis C: victory is close

In the course of phase 2 clinical trials of hepatitis C treatment methods with various combinations of drugs, one hundred percent cure of patients was achieved.

06.11.2013
Other life sciences

The role of autophagy in beta-amyloid secretion

Autophagy, a key cellular mechanism of self-purification, mediates the formation of beta–amyloid plaques – one of the signs of Alzheimer's disease - and may be a potential target of drugs for the treatment of this disease.

06.11.2013
Biomedicine

Melanoma: early diagnosis by blood test

Scientists from the University of Dundee (UK) have developed a unique test to detect the development of melanoma from a blood sample, which will allow diagnosing the disease at an early stage, and in the future – to develop new methods of treatment.

05.11.2013