Life Sciences

Found results: 11545

Biomedicine

Without gene therapy

Blocking the synthesis of sphingolipids counteracted the loss of muscle function in mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy model.

01.02.2022
Other life sciences

Muscles made of elastin

The biocompatible structure of protein strands is able to shrink, expending chemical energy, and again take its original form.

01.02.2022
Prolonging youth

Rejuvenating vesicles

In elderly mice treated with factors from the stem cells of young mice, the level of endurance increased.

01.02.2022
Cellular technologies

Selection of the strongest

The microfluidic device finds and selects the most active lymphocytes for immunotherapy of solid tumors.

31.01.2022
Genetic engineering

New genomic technologies

Governments around the world are considering how to regulate the use of plant genome editing technologies.

31.01.2022
Other life sciences

Turns on the light

In our country, a large group of scientists of different specialties is developing the most complex technology of vision restoration.

31.01.2022
Other life sciences

AI predicts heart attack

The artificial intelligence system predicts myocardial infarction by the pattern of retinal capillaries.

28.01.2022
Prolonging youth

Another senolytic

Tests on mice of a vaccine against a protein characteristic of aging cells have shown that it works.

28.01.2022
Biomedicine

Keytruda against AIDS

In a pilot clinical study, scientists have shown that an affordable drug helps to remove HIV from hidden reservoirs.

28.01.2022
Genetics

From common ancestors

The gene variant protecting against the "heavy" COVID-19 appeared half a million years ago in the ancestors of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans.

27.01.2022
Genetics

How far did the apple fall

Much of what is discussed by "sofa geneticists" makes Olga Shchagina, Candidate of Medical Sciences, smile.

27.01.2022
Other life sciences

Bioreactor on the foot

American scientists have learned how to start limb regeneration in adult frogs.

27.01.2022
Other life sciences

Electronic vision

ELVIS may become the first mass-produced product in Russia with the use of electrodes implanted in the brain for a long time.

27.01.2022
New in Gerontology

Aging Proteins

Two proteins circulate in the human blood, which, as it turned out, negatively affect the duration and quality of life.

26.01.2022
Genetic engineering

Quiet Harbor

"Quiet" areas have been found in the genome, in which genes can be embedded without the risk of undesirable consequences.

26.01.2022
Other life sciences

What infections cause cancer?

About 30% of malignant tumors develop due to biological carcinogens — viruses or bacteria.

26.01.2022
Genetics

Oncogenes in a jar

MIPT physicists have calculated the number of oncogenic mutations in different types of cancer, in patients of different demographic and clinical groups.

25.01.2022
Biomedicine

Phage therapy in traumatology

Bacteriophages helped to get rid of bacteria that had been preventing a broken leg from healing for almost two years.

25.01.2022
Other life sciences

Don't worry, be healthy

The risk of developing cardiometabolic diseases in neurotics is 13 percent higher than in people with low anxiety.

25.01.2022