Life Sciences

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Biomedicine

Urine analysis for early and rapid diagnosis of cancer

During testing, P-scan detected breast cancer even in cases when it was not detected during mammography. The researchers hope to optimize this technique for diagnosing other types of cancer from a urine sample.

27.05.2013
Other life sciences

Another property of rapamycin

The discovery of the mechanism by which rapamycin slows down cell division makes it a promising drug for the treatment of certain cancers and other proliferative diseases.

27.05.2013
Cellular technologies

Coming out of a coma

Nine weeks after the brain damage, the boy began to be injected intravenously with his own umbilical cord blood, after which a relatively rapid improvement in his condition was recorded.

27.05.2013
New in Gerontology

Alzheimer's treatment: another ray of hope?

The introduction of TSPO (translocator protein, carrier protein) ligands significantly mitigated pathological phenomena in old mice with Alzheimer's disease model and improved animal memory.

24.05.2013
Other life sciences

Microbes-calculators

A group of bioengineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created "analog calculators" based on living unicellular microorganisms.

24.05.2013
Biomedicine

Universal nanovaccine against influenza

American scientists have developed and successfully tested on animals a universal flu vaccine based on the use of self-ordering protein nanoparticles synthesized in the laboratory.

24.05.2013
Prolonging youth

How to protect neurons from degeneration?

Scientists were able not only to confirm that reducing the amount of calories consumed slows down the degeneration of neurons, but also to show that drugs that activate the enzyme sirtuin-1 cause the same effect.

23.05.2013
Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology and nanoscience

These two concepts have the same relation to each other as, say, engineering to theoretical physics. However, one common detail is the size of the object being studied/constructed.

22.05.2013
Other life sciences

Bacteriophages-symbionts

Scientists have found that the mucous membranes of animals attract symbiotic bacteriophages, which are able to protect the body from pathogenic bacteria.

22.05.2013
Bioethics

Death Contract

UK politicians have developed a model of a contract on euthanasia, or a "death contract", which terminally ill people who wish to die can sign.

21.05.2013
Prolonging youth

Take care of your skin from a young age

The reasons why our skin loses freshness, tone and elasticity over time can be divided into three main categories: biological aging, environmental impact and mechanical aging.

21.05.2013
Genetics

Criminal DNA Database

The Federal Penitentiary Service has started collecting DNA from all Russian prisoners in order to create a single genetic database.

20.05.2013
Cellular technologies

Cell therapy of the immune system

Scientists warn that they have not created a copy of the thymus gland. However, they have developed a tool that allows you to modulate the immune system in a way that has never been possible before.

20.05.2013
Cloning

Mitalipov is not going to clone a person

Human embryonic stem cells were obtained for the first time by the method of somatic cell nuclei transfer. But this method, commonly called therapeutic cloning, is unlikely to produce human clones.

20.05.2013
Biomedicine

Anti-cancer vaccine: a war on two fronts

The results of the study confirmed that the vaccine really works on two fronts and causes cancer cell lysis and antibody formation at the same time.

20.05.2013
Biomedicine

How to make cancer cells die?

The discovery of MIT scientists suggests the possibility of breaking the resistance of cancer cells: researchers have identified a key protein of an alternative pathway of programmed cell death – necrosis.

17.05.2013
New in Gerontology

Is premature aging curable?

So far, experiments are being conducted only on mice, but there is hope that children with progeria can be cured by turning off just one enzyme. Studies of this disease and methods of combating it can become the basis for solving the problem of normal aging.

17.05.2013