Life Sciences

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Other life sciences

Success of vitrification

Advanced vitrification technology (turning into "glass") will allow frozen donor organs to be stored for years or even decades.

20.09.2013
Biomedicine

How to kill tumor-supporting macrophages

The new strategy makes it possible to slow down tumor growth and increase life expectancy by selectively destroying macrophages that suppress the body's response to cancer.

19.09.2013
Cellular technologies

Pancreas from stem cells – the first successes

For the first time, scientists were able to isolate and grow stem cells in a three-dimensional culture that can differentiate into two types of cells that form the pancreas, and even grow tiny fragments of tissue called pancreatic organoids.

18.09.2013
Other life sciences

Antibiotic with a switch

Dutch chemists have created an antibiotic that is activated by ultraviolet radiation, and then returns to an inactive state within a few hours.

17.09.2013
Other life sciences

Neurons with a mutation in the tau protein gene "in vitro"

Using advances in stem cell production and reprogramming and genetic engineering, American scientists have grown human neurons with a mutation in the tau protein, creating a model of one of the types of neurodegenerative diseases – taupathies.

17.09.2013
Genetics

The Metabolic Paradox

In the presence of a certain variant of the insulin receptor-1 substrate gene, patients with metabolic syndrome may benefit not from low-fat foods, but, on the contrary, a diet with a high fat content.

17.09.2013
Biomedicine

Antidiabetic drug can cure Alzheimer's disease

The drug liraglutide, used to treat diabetes mellitus, is able to restore memory loss and clear the brain of beta-amyloid aggregates even in the late stages of Alzheimer's disease.

17.09.2013
Genetics

Analgesic mutation

The mutation, due to which pain sensitivity is impaired, may allow the development of a fundamentally new type of analgesics.

16.09.2013
Genetics

Map of human genetic variability

An important step towards understanding the work of the genome and personalized medicine has been made: scientists sequenced RNA in five human populations and obtained a picture of the diversity of individual gene activity.

16.09.2013
Nanotechnology

Selecta Biosciences: from America with love

The "nanorackets" that allow the vaccine to be delivered directly to the lymph node and lose almost nothing on the way were designed by the young firm Selecta Biosciences, whose laboratories are located in Watertown near Boston and in Khimki near Moscow.

16.09.2013
Other life sciences

Shepherd microbes vs. Wolf microbes

Microbes that are safe for humans can be taught to accurately recognize pathogenic types of microorganisms and provide weapons against them.

13.09.2013
Biomedicine

Compounds for the treatment of Parkinson's disease already exist

One of the drugs already undergoing clinical trials to protect healthy cells in the treatment of cancer, not only protects dopamine-producing neurons from death, but also prevents the manifestation of behavioral abnormalities in Parkinsonian mice.

13.09.2013