Life Sciences

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Nanotechnology

Another nanopore design for DNA sequencing

The new technology of DNA sequencing using nanopores has the potential to greatly increase the speed and reduce the cost of this procedure.

24.09.2012
Other life sciences

Natural killers protect against lung cancer

The result of the study is not that the responsibility for cancer was assigned to poor immunity (its role in the development of cancer has long been known), but that it was possible to find out which immune cells protect us from lung cancer.

24.09.2012
Nanotechnology

A new method for imaging nanoparticles in vivo

Spanish researchers demonstrated on the example of laboratory rats that positron emission tomography can be used to track the distribution of nanoparticles labeled with radioactive fluorine throughout the body.

24.09.2012
Biomedicine

Big Pharma has cooled to Alzheimer's

Leading pharmaceutical companies have questioned the economic feasibility of developing new drugs for Alzheimer's disease.

21.09.2012
Biomedicine

Capsules for obesity

Implantation of capsules with cells that trigger fat burning relieved mice on a high-calorie diet from obesity.

21.09.2012
Other life sciences

Another cause of obesity

The absence or insufficient number of so-called AgRP neurons in the center of metabolism in the brain of mice causes obesity in cases when their diet is excessively saturated with sugar and other carbohydrates.

20.09.2012
Genetics

Diabetes and cancer: bound by the same gene

The discovery of a new function of the PTEN anti-oncogene will allow us to better understand the mechanisms of type 2 diabetes development and advance in the development of its treatment methods.

19.09.2012
Other life sciences

A new look at the placebo effect

Mathematical models developed by scientists from the University of Bristol allow us to take a fresh look at the causes of the placebo effect, and perhaps learn how to control its manifestation.

19.09.2012
Genetics

Diagnosis by genes: truth and fiction

Doctor of Biological Sciences Yuri Aulchenko about genetic tests: which of them can be trusted, and which are outright commerce.

19.09.2012
Bioethics

Should the birth of "three-parent" children be allowed?

The UK has launched a public consultation on the controversial method of in vitro "three-parent" fertilization (IVF with three parents), which will allow families with incurable diseases to have healthy children

19.09.2012
Biomedicine

Snips will help prevent a graft-versus-host reaction

The results of the study showed that the mismatch of only two single nucleotide polymorphisms (snips) in the donor and recipient is associated with an increased risk of acute GVHD and death of the patient.

17.09.2012
Cellular technologies

Induced pluripotent stem cells: new data

New epigenetic mechanisms have been identified that make it possible to effectively reprogram mature somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).

17.09.2012
Genetics

Article by Russian scientists in Nature Genetics

The Grammar-Gamma method developed at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS will allow for an order of magnitude faster identification of genome regions whose variations are involved in the control of complex signs and common diseases.

17.09.2012