Life Sciences

Synthetic biology and design of bioengineered devices

The materials of the school-conference "Synthetic biology and the design of bioengineering devices" are published in the public domain.

Fruit-beneficial treatment of diabetes

The future plans of scientists include the creation of a non-alcoholic analogue of berry wines, which will be useful not only in the fight against diabetes, but will also prove indispensable for the overall improvement of the body.

Do you want healthy children? Don't put it off until tomorrow!

Later conception of children has an extremely negative effect on the health of the offspring: an increase in the age of the father by one year is accompanied by the appearance of an average of two harmful mutations in the genome of their descendants.

Aging, neurodegeneration and Parkinson's disease: references

Aging, neurodegeneration and Parkinson's disease

The pathogenesis and symptoms of Parkinson's disease are the result of complex interactions between aging processes and other predisposition factors, which makes this disease one of the most obvious examples of age–related pathology.

Protein of immortality

The enzyme histone acetyltransferase Mof provides "immortality" of pluripotent stem cells, allowing them to divide without differentiation into other cell types.

Citizen, let's go... for genome registration

Genomic registration will be extremely useful not only in criminal, but also everyday situations. True, criminals will pass it forcibly and for nothing, and law–abiding citizens - voluntarily and for 9360 rubles.

Resveratrol against senile weakness in the legs

The sensational red wine antioxidant resveratrol improves the sense of balance and prevents falls in old age. Unfortunately, to date, this is shown only on mice.

People with ageless brains

The brain of "cognitive super-old people" looks and works just as well as the brain of people 20-30 years younger than them.

The key mechanism of skeletal muscle atrophy

Gadd45a protein alters the expression of approximately 600 genes associated with muscle atrophy, increasing the number of matrix RNAs that destroy muscle cell proteins or inhibit their synthesis.

A promising drug against prostate cancer

After 21 days under the action of G202, the size of the prostate tumor grown in mice from human cells decreased by more than 50% in 7 out of 9 cases, compared with only one out of eight tumors when using docetaxel.

The MGC8902 gene is the main cause of human braininess?

It is possible that the key genetic basis for the sharp difference between the human brain and the brains of other primates and mammals is the presence in our genome of a significantly larger number of copies of the MGC8902 gene.

Alzheimer's disease? Stop cleaning the neurons!

Blocking the system of clearing neurons from the remnants of damaged proteins unexpectedly slowed down the course of Alzheimer's disease and improved the cognitive abilities of mice suffering from this disease.

Breast cancer: another gene

American scientists have discovered a new oncogene of breast cancer – FAM83B. When this gene is overexpressed in breast cells, normal cells begin to behave like cancer cells.

Will men finally get birth control pills?

American scientists have developed an effective non-hormonal male contraceptive. The drug, which was originally created as a cure for cancer, has been successfully tested on mice.

Artificial pancreatic tissue will improve the results of transplantation

Bioengineered pancreatic tissue due to a well-developed vascular network will improve the results of transplantation in the treatment of type 1 diabetes.

How to reduce the signs of aging: dermatologist's advice

To get the maximum benefit from cosmetics that slow down skin aging, follow the simple recommendations of a specialist.

The book of DNA

American bioengineers have "printed" an electronic version of the book "Regeneration: How Synthetic Biology will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves" on DNA molecules.

Once again about the benefits of black rice

Researchers from China claim that antioxidants from black rice increased the lifespan of fruit flies by 13.6%.

Obesity, diabetes and microflora

American biologists have identified 26 types of bacteria in the microflora of the human intestine associated with the development of obesity and type II diabetes, which will help fight these diseases by regulating the number of such microbes