Life Sciences

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Prolonging youth

Olive oil with fullerenes – the elixir of youth?

The rats of the control group lived an average of 22 months; the group that sat on the "Mediterranean diet" with olive oil – 26; and those who had fullerene C60 added to the oil lived almost 2 times longer than the controls, on average 42 months.

23.04.2012
Genetic engineering

Xenonucleic acids

An alternative to natural carriers of genetic information, RNA and DNA – xenonucleic acids, capable of transmitting genetic information, have been synthesized in the laboratory.

20.04.2012
Biomedicine

Glioblastoma vaccine: the result is positive

A new therapeutic vaccine against recurrent brain tumor – glioblastoma – in the phase II clinical trial increased the life expectancy of patients by 7 months or more.

19.04.2012
Cellular technologies

Bald mice have grown human hair

Biologists believe that further experiments with human cells will create a safe and convenient tool that allows bald men to restore their hair in a few weeks.

18.04.2012
Cellular technologies

Restoring the heart saves lives

Thanks to a unique method of implantation of blood vessels grown from the patient's own cells, a girl born with a life-threatening heart defect will be able to lead a normal life.

17.04.2012
Bioethics

Unethical bioethics

Ten years ago, Diana Irving published an article "Bioethical Confusion". In a new article on the same topic, her doubts about the ethics of bioethics sound even more acute.

16.04.2012
Genetic engineering

Modified stem cells to fight HIV

Modified human hematopoietic stem cells differentiate into HIV-specific CD8 T lymphocytes and destroy infected cells in the animal model.

13.04.2012
Cellular technologies

Stem underground workers are not hindered by prohibitions

Despite the tightening of the ban of the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China on the clinical use of stem cell treatments that have not received official approval, the illegal business of cell therapy continues to flourish.

13.04.2012
Genetic engineering

Synthetic biology in Siberian

At the Novosibirsk Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, work is underway to create a microchip DNA synthesizer.

12.04.2012
Other life sciences

Alzheimer's, heal yourself!

The cure for Alzheimer's disease lies in the same protein that causes it: one of the fragments of the beta-amyloid precursor protein suppresses the work of the enzyme responsible for pathogenic modification of the same protein.

12.04.2012
Nanotechnology

Shuriken on the tumor

Gold nanoparticles shaped like stars find tumor cells and deliver a deadly cargo directly to their nuclei.

12.04.2012
Cellular technologies

Lung and thyroid progenitor cells from ESCs

The researchers obtained lung and thyroid progenitor cells from embryonic stem cells, suitable for experimental work and, possibly, for cell replacement therapy.

11.04.2012
Biomedicine

Take the tumor in a pincer

A young Russian company has taken a swing at a new method of treating cancer. Its specialists decided to combine two unique technologies to arm the immune system against tumor cells and at the same time disarm the defense of the tumor itself.

09.04.2012