Life Sciences

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Biomedicine

Give the body to repair

In a couple of decades, a person will be updated with the help of regenerative cellular and gene technologies, like a car that has got stuck in a car service station.

25.03.2013
Other life sciences

A warm liver is better than a cold one

The donor liver, placed, according to accepted standards, in a saline solution with a temperature of 4 degrees, can be stored for no more than 12 hours; in a new container that provides body temperature and blood supply to the organ – from 24 to 72.

25.03.2013
Genetics

Parkinson's disease: are we treating or crippling?

Low expression of alpha-synuclein is associated with worse prognoses for the course of Parkinson's disease, which casts doubt on the efficacy and safety of new, considered promising, methods of treating this disease.

22.03.2013
Other life sciences

The more germs, the less diabetes

Countries with a low mortality rate from infections are characterized by an increased incidence of type 1 diabetes, which may be due to insufficient exposure to pathogens in the early stages of life for the full formation of the immune system.

22.03.2013
Biomedicine

Laboratory under the skin

A miniature subcutaneous implant that sends the data it collects directly to the attending physician's computer will simultaneously monitor the dynamics of concentrations of five clinically significant compounds in the patient's blood.

21.03.2013
Prolonging youth

Greek coffee – the secret to a long life?

The secret of longevity may be much simpler than we think. It is quite possible that it lies in the morning portion of properly prepared coffee.

21.03.2013
Biomedicine

Tumor, kill yourself!

A new method of gene therapy of oncological diseases is the use of cancer cells for the synthesis of one of the components of natural antitumor immunity – interleukin-12. The activity of interleukin production can be regulated by a drug that includes the work of a gene injected into tumor cells.

21.03.2013
Biomedicine

Two hormones will help in the fight against obesity

After intravenous administration of a combination of glucagon and glucan-like peptide 1, the volunteers consumed almost 18% fewer calories than after placebo infusions or only one of the hormones.

20.03.2013
Nanotechnology

A new word in joint prosthetics

Magnetoelastic-based coatings do not require power supply and are able not only to inform whether healing is normal after implantation of an artificial joint, but also to fight infections and scar tissue fouling.

20.03.2013
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of choroideremia

Clinical trials of gene therapy for choroideremia, a hereditary disease that leads to blindness, have successfully begun in the UK.

19.03.2013
Cloning

Cloning extinct animals: dreams and reality

The maximum that has been achieved in this area is several divisions of the egg cell of one frog species with the somatic cell nucleus of another, recently extinct, frozen 40 years ago. But dreaming about mammoths or wandering pigeons is not harmful…

19.03.2013
Biomedicine

Bioengineered liver hits barriers

Domestic biomedical, including cellular, technologies are being developed by the efforts of enthusiastic scientists, but they cannot reach hundreds of thousands of patients due to lack of money, personnel and state support.

18.03.2013
Other life sciences

Brown fat: the study continues

Researchers have identified a transcription factor that ensures the differentiation of adipose tissue progenitor cells into brown fat cells. They hope that the activation of this protein may become a new method of treating obesity.

18.03.2013