Life Sciences

Found results: 11545

Biomedicine

We have a stroke, and we are getting stronger!

A serious, but not fatal stroke triggers mechanisms in brain cells that provide effective protection of neurons, glial cells and blood vessels from subsequent strokes.

25.05.2011
Genetics

DNA behind bars

In Russia, the creation of a single DNA database of all particularly dangerous criminals is beginning. The registration of these data was legalized by the State Duma, but it is not yet clear who and how will collect the DNA of prisoners.

25.05.2011
Cellular technologies

Artificial astrocytes have been created

The possibility of obtaining large homogeneous samples of astrocytes from embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells opens up prospects for a better study of their functions, as well as for the development of new effective drugs for nervous diseases.

25.05.2011
Other life sciences

The power of thought

A person can use his mind to control a toy car and put puzzles together. Such developments are also being carried out in the laboratory of neurophysiology and neurocomputer interfaces of the MSU biofac.

25.05.2011
Cellular technologies

Stem cells against liver cirrhosis

Cells of various adult tissues converted into induced pluripotent stem cells and differentiated into hepatocytes restored liver tissue of mice with chronic cirrhosis.

25.05.2011
Prolonging youth

Secrets of longevity from Professor Shabalin

The area of scientific interests of Vladimir Nikolaevich is the physiological and biochemical processes of the body's involution and the development of measures for their stabilization and prevention, immunological and immunogenetic problems of human aging.

19.05.2011
Biomedicine

Molecular biological agent for hair growth

Hair follicle stem cells coordinate hair regeneration using two molecular signals: a WNT activator and a BMP inhibitor. The researchers who discovered this signaling pathway are already patenting a new method for modulating hair growth.

19.05.2011
Cellular technologies

iPSCs can repair damaged retina

The results of the study open up broad prospects for IPSC for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, diabetic retinopathy and other retinal diseases that affect millions.

19.05.2011
Prolonging youth

Displacement of old age

In a rapidly aging world, aging people are treated badly, sometimes even extremely badly. And here is one of the reasons that people try not to get old. Or at least not look aging (not to mention "old").

18.05.2011
New in Gerontology

Unhappy childhood shortens life

When comparing the DNA of orphaned children who grew up in an orphanage or foster families, it turned out that the telomeres, the chromosomal clock that determines the life of a cell, shorten faster in the former.

18.05.2011
Cellular technologies

Turn fat into teeth? Easy!

Italian scientists have grown "in vitro" (and even without a specific structural matrix or substrate) the rudiments of teeth from adipose tissue stem cells.

18.05.2011
Cellular technologies

Horror story about induced pluripotent stem cells

The results of research by molecular biologists from the University of California at San Diego call into question the rosy prospects for the use of induced stem cells in medicine.

16.05.2011
New in Gerontology

Hungry and cold centenarians

Scientists studying the relationship between nutrition and longevity have found new evidence that a low-calorie diet helps people live longer: significant calorie restriction leads to a decrease in central body temperature.

16.05.2011