Life Sciences

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Other life sciences

Oligopeptides will help gene therapy

Scientists from Moscow State University together with foreign colleagues have created a substance that will be widely used in gene therapy: the EF-C peptide accelerates the transfer of a "therapeutic" gene from a genetically modified retroviral vector to human DNA.

18.02.2013
Other life sciences

The first electronic retina enters the US market

The FDA has approved the first artificial retina – an implantable device with some retinal functions that will help people who have lost their eyesight due to a genetic disease – retinitis pigmentosa.

18.02.2013
Nanotechnology

Ball Bomb for Ovarian Cancer

Nanoparticles filled with nanoliposomes with miRNAs that suppress the expression of one of the most important genes associated with the development of ovarian cancer reduce the mass of tumors by 83%.

15.02.2013
Prolonging youth

Will nitroglycerin slow down aging?

Nitric oxide, which is involved in many processes in the body, also "conducts" genes associated with protecting cells from stress and aging. Now the well-known nitroglycerin has become another potential geroprotector.

15.02.2013
Other life sciences

New system for early cancer diagnosis

Researchers from South Korea have developed a simple and non-invasive method for detecting cancer cells that can speed up the early diagnosis of malignant tumors.

15.02.2013
Other life sciences

Will non-coding RNAs help fight obesity?

American scientists have discovered ten non-coding RNAs, a decrease in the expression of which in adipocyte progenitor cells stops the process of adipose tissue formation.

14.02.2013
New in Gerontology

Aging: getting rid of prejudices

In the public consciousness, old age is associated only with decline and incapacity. The reviewed books, which have no analogues in Russian yet, are devoted to the liberation from such prejudices and social stigmata.

14.02.2013
Genetic engineering

Diabetes gene therapy: tested on dogs

In dogs, as a result of a single gene therapy procedure, the symptoms of type 1 diabetes disappeared. Monitoring of the condition of the animals showed that in some cases the absence of symptoms lasted for four years.

13.02.2013
Other life sciences

Bacterial Computer

MIT engineers have designed molecular genetic circuits that allow not only to perform logical operations inside bacteria, but also to record the results in cellular DNA, which are transmitted to the next generations of microorganisms.

12.02.2013
Biomedicine

Tat-beclin 1 – the long-awaited panacea?

By triggering the autophagy mechanism, a synthetic peptide called tat-beclin-1 protects the body from malignant, infectious and neurodegenerative diseases, and also prevents aging.

11.02.2013
Other life sciences

It's not contagious

Some of the patients infected with mad cow disease in the 1980s due to the presence of prions in growth hormone also received pathological forms of proteins involved in the development of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. But none of them developed these diseases.

08.02.2013
Other life sciences

How chromosomes are protected from dangerous fusion

The TRF2 protein, which is part of the telomeres, prevents the fusion of chromosomes with each other using two independent mechanisms that suppress the activity of the intracellular DNA damage repair system.

07.02.2013
Cellular technologies

You can fight fat with fat

Researchers have learned how to turn skeletal muscle stem cells into brown fat cells, which improves metabolism and prevents the development of obesity.

07.02.2013
Other life sciences

Cancer Treatment: not to destroy, but to age the tumor cells

The inclusion of a cellular aging program can unexpectedly suppress tumor development for a long time. Suppression of cell growth with the help of immunotherapy allows you to control the tumor without destroying its cells.

06.02.2013
Genetic engineering

Epidermis Growth Factor promotes bone marrow recovery

Hematopoietic cells of genetically modified mice, whose bone marrow is characterized by excessive synthesis of epidermal growth factor, protect donor mice from the harmful effects of radiation.

06.02.2013