Life Sciences

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Cellular technologies

Bronchi in a test tube

Bronchial organoids can be used to diagnose pathologies of the respiratory system, drug development and basic research.

21.03.2022
Genetic engineering

Bet on a horse

The needs of the global pharmaceutical industry in steroids exceed 1,500 tons per year. The market of medicines produced from them is second only to antibiotics.

21.03.2022
Genetic engineering

Germs under cover

Bacteria covered with a special shell are able to find cancerous tumors and, multiplying in them, produce antitumor toxins.

21.03.2022
Biomedicine

The key to the gate

Scientists from Yale University have developed an antibody that opens one of the receptors in the blood-brain barrier.

21.03.2022
Cellular technologies

Immunity-on-a-chip

Lymphoid follicles grown on a microfluidic chip demonstrate human immune functions and in vitro vaccine response.

18.03.2022
Prolonging youth

Not only against aging cells

Senolytic drugs with oral administration increase the expression of the "youth protein" α-Klotho in mice and humans.

18.03.2022
Biomedicine

Early and differential

Skin biopsy makes it possible to distinguish Parkinson's disease from similar conditions with atypical Parkinsonism at an early stage.

18.03.2022
New in Gerontology

Alzheimer's disease and sleep

Excessive daytime sleep, as it turned out, can lead to the progression of senile dementia.

18.03.2022
Cloning

A new step

An international group of scientists obtained pluripotent stem cells from the skin fibroblasts of the northern white rhinoceros in the naive stage.

17.03.2022
Genetic engineering

Genetics against pests

Oxitec has tested a gene drive technology to combat corn leaf scoops — dangerous pests of agriculture.

17.03.2022
Biomedicine

Vector therapy of cancer

A new photoactive viral vector for targeted therapy of oncological diseases has been developed.

16.03.2022
Biomedicine

Let's choose the best one

Moderna will test three different HIV vaccines to determine the most promising strategy to fight the virus.

16.03.2022
Biomedicine

Recombinant vaccine

Vaccinated and then infected with anthrax guinea pigs survived — unlike unvaccinated ones.

16.03.2022
Genetic engineering

Recharging for T cells

Genomic screening revealed a gene that enhances the anticancer activity of CAR-T lymphocytes.

15.03.2022
Genetic engineering

And the sediment remained

Some of the HIV genomes removed from T cells are folded into stable rings that can be integrated into the patient's chromosomes.

15.03.2022
Nanotechnology

Masking for antigens

The shells of red blood cells can be filled with a large dose of viral proteins – without the genetic material of the virus.

15.03.2022
Genetics

Food Code

In recent years, at the junction of genetics, dietetics and medicine, a new scientific direction has emerged — nutrigenomics.

15.03.2022
Genetics

Sunday reading (14.03)

Visualization of HIV in the human body, parthenogenesis in mammals, evolution of subantarctic penguins and much more.

14.03.2022
Biomedicine

The heart-kidney axis

There is a relationship between simultaneous deterioration of kidney and heart muscle functions in conditions of ischemia, namely myocardial infarction.

14.03.2022