Life Sciences

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Other life sciences

How evolution has built into us the limitation of life expectancy

Peter Lansdorp, head of the European Institute for the Biology of Aging – about why some cells die and others live forever, how evolution has built into us the limitation of life expectancy and how cooperation with the Skolkovo project is conducted.

17.06.2013
Genetics

Lecture notes on the wonders of genetics

June 13 in the framework of the project "Public lectures Polit.Denis Rebrikov, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Director of Science at the DNA Technology research and Production company, gave a lecture "An ordinary Miracle of Genetics".

17.06.2013
Other life sciences

Nail stem cells are the key to limb regeneration?

Mammals have a remarkable ability to regenerate lost fingertips, including nails, nerves, and even bones. Determining in this phenomenon is the interaction of nail stem cells and proteins of the Wnt signaling pathway, including their differentiation.

14.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Liver: regeneration instead of transplantation?

Liver transplantation is the main method of treating patients with end–stage diseases of this organ, but a new study by scientists at Mount Sinai Medical Center suggests the possibility of liver regeneration using cell therapy.

14.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Recipe for making kidneys

Anthony Atala, a world–renowned specialist in regenerative medicine, talks about the creation of a human mini-kidney, the development of cellular biomedical technologies and prospects for cooperation with Russian scientists.

13.06.2013
Other life sciences

The reward found the hero after tens of thousands of years

One of the laureates of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology is the director of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the SB RAS, Academician Anatoly Derevyanko, one of the authors of the discovery of the Denisov man.

13.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Stress-resistant pluripotent stem cells from adipose tissue

Scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles have isolated from human adipose tissue a population of pluripotent stem cells resistant to cellular stress, capable of differentiating into almost any type of body cells without genetic modification.

11.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Collagen blood vessels

During preclinical tests, such artificial veins performed much better than existing synthetic and animal analogues.

10.06.2013
Genetic engineering

DNA on the conveyor

The process of producing DNA strands several hundred bases long using genetically modified microorganisms is much cheaper and more accurate than existing methods.

10.06.2013
Genetic engineering

The canaries suggested a way to restore neurons

"The information we needed to understand how to achieve the formation of new neurons in the adult brain tissue was essentially given to us by our work with canaries," says the head of the work.

10.06.2013
Nanotechnology

Nanocontraception

If such a method of male contraception is safe for a person, gold nanorods can become an alternative to vasectomy.

10.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Cartilage from stem cells: a new recipe

Bioengineers are actively looking for innovative ways to grow new cartilage from the patient's own stem cells, and thanks to a new study by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, this treatment method has become a step closer to clinical practice.

07.06.2013
Cellular technologies

iPSCs were turned into blood cells

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine have managed to differentiate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) into erythrocytes and platelets.

07.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Release the cells from the cage!

The law on the circulation of biomedical cell products will allow large-scale clinical trials of the most promising developments to begin. Centers for the development of cellular technologies and regenerative medicine are expected to open in the near future.

07.06.2013
Other life sciences

At what rate are nerve cells restored?

Counting of neurons with carbon-14 embedded in DNA in the period from 1945 to 1963, when countries conducted nuclear tests on earth, showed that up to 700 new neurons appear in the hippocampus in adults per day

07.06.2013
Cloning

Cloning a mammoth: an optimist's opinion

After the recent discovery of the carcass of an adult female mammoth, the extinct animal may still be cloned. Semyon Grigoriev, head of the Mammoth Museum, talks about the prospects of such a project.

06.06.2013
Genetics

DNA prints: to take or not to take?

The idea of DNA as a universal bioidentifier is not to everyone's liking. Alarmists warn: let the state and corporations dig into your genes – and a society like "Gattaca" will be built by itself.

06.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Safe cells

Australian scientists have developed the first test to identify human induced pluripotent stem cell lines capable of forming tumors.

06.06.2013