Life Sciences

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Other life sciences

Transcriptomics methods are being improved

A method has been developed that allows you to quickly and accurately study the transcriptome (the totality of all RNAs) in an extremely small amount of biological material.

28.10.2013
Other life sciences

The variety of symptoms of Parkinson's disease has been explained

The researchers were able to describe and obtain two different types of aggregates of the alpha-synuclein protein – the causes of Parkinson's disease. One of them is much more toxic and has a more pronounced ability to damage neurons.

28.10.2013
Biomedicine

Universal HIV vaccine: the objectives are clear…

The genetic diversity of HIV is very high, and this is an obstacle to the development of an effective vaccine. However, scientists in the United States have proven that the mosaic vaccine will help create an immune response against a large number of HIV virus strains.

25.10.2013
Other life sciences

Alzheimer's disease, cholesterol and sirtuins

Disorders associated with cholesterol-carrying protein ApoE4 and Alzheimer's disease, such as the formation of phosphorylated tau protein and beta-amyloid, can be prevented by increasing the level of one of the "anti-aging" proteins – sirtuins - SirT1.

25.10.2013
Cellular technologies

The first tissue-engineered trachea met expectations

The patient, who had her trachea transplanted using tissue engineering methods for the first time in the world five years ago, feels well and does not suffer from immunological complications of therapy.

24.10.2013
Genetics

The number of other people's children is greatly exaggerated

The idea of the prevalence in the past centuries in Europe of a situation when deceived husbands, unsuspecting nothing, raise children who are biologically alien to them, is greatly exaggerated, and the situation in this area was not too different from the modern one.

24.10.2013
Other life sciences

Alzheimer's disease: another piece of the puzzle

Alzheimer's disease has to be imagined as one big puzzle. Every year, scientists unravel all new parts of it, this time – the role of interaction of prion proteins with beta-amyloid.

24.10.2013
Cellular technologies

Stroke treatment: Cellular technologies in the cell of the law

Despite the difficulties associated with the adoption of the law on cellular technologies, the Novosibirsk Institute of Clinical Immunology is testing a method of rehabilitation of stroke patients with the help of immune system cells step by step.

23.10.2013
Biomedicine

Diabetes Vaccine needs money for clinical research

Researchers from the University of Tampere have developed and successfully tested on mice a prototype vaccine that protects against the Coxsackie virus, which, as they proved, is responsible for the development of type 1 diabetes. The beginning of clinical trials is hindered by a shortage of funds.

23.10.2013
New in Gerontology

The switch of senile diseases

One of the triggers of the age-related deterioration of the body associated with inflammation is the activation of the Nlrp3 immune sensor, the suppression of the activity of which makes it possible to increase the so-called healthy life expectancy.

23.10.2013
Cellular technologies

A billion liver cells can be made from 1 liter of fat

The human liver contains about 200 billion cells. But in the body, cells will multiply, and eventually their number will reach 100 billion, and this is enough for regeneration. This procedure can replace the transplantation of a donor liver.

22.10.2013
Prolonging youth

To keep your mind clear, you need to study in old age

Not all classes help elderly people to keep their wits sharp, but only those that force them to do something fundamentally new, changing their lifestyle - for example, taking a photography course.

22.10.2013
Other life sciences

Antiretroviral milk

American scientists have discovered a protein in breast milk that "does not let" the human immunodeficiency virus into the body of infants. Tenascin-C may become one of the drugs for the prevention of AIDS.

22.10.2013
Cellular technologies

Test Tube hair

American scientists have created a method of treating baldness without hair transplantation – by growing new hair follicles.

22.10.2013