Life Sciences

The patch for the heart grew in the omentum

Transplantologists managed to make a unique patch for the heart, in which, in addition to the heart tissue, there are also vessels. In order for them to grow, the blank for the patch was kept in the omentum in the abdominal region for a week.

Blackened transplantologists

In Ukraine, another scandal is being fanned about "black transplantologists" and allegedly illegally dismembered corpses. The living suffer from this.

Gene therapy of mitochondrial hereditary diseases: it has already worked on macaques!

It is hoped that in humans, too, it will be possible to interrupt the inheritance of defective mitochondrial DNA and hereditary diseases transmitted through the maternal line by transferring the nucleus into an egg obtained from a healthy donor.

Skin cells replaced patients in clinical trials

Induced pluripotent stem cells can be used to study hereditary diseases and develop means of their treatment.

DNA in criminology: forensic experts were taken by the throat

One of the researchers who published in the public domain a simple and reliable method of falsifying DNA samples, which can undermine modern methods of criminology, himself founded a company that developed a test to distinguish fake DNA from real ones.

Estrogen and breast cancer: from theory to practice

New data on the interaction of breast tumor cells with estrogen may lead to the development of new drugs for the treatment of breast cancer.

Multiple sclerosis in 10 years, it may be possible to cure

This statement was made by scientists from the University of Bristol – they managed to establish that the galanin protein prevents the development of multiple sclerosis.

Is genetic engineering and eugenics our happy future?

Almost all societies at one time engaged in what we call "eugenics" or "genetic engineering". Why, in the name of what, control human genetics? This is a problem that will be acutely facing us in fifty years.

Biotechnologies and medicine: waiting for miracles and real benefits

The most frequent reproaches from ordinary people relate to medical applications of biotechnologies. The reproaches can be understood, because it is medicine that is the main application of the results of the activities of biotechnologists.

Blue Brain: modeling the brain

Within the framework of the Blue Brain project, it is supposed to simulate one of the elements of the cerebral cortex – the neuronal column using computer modeling methods.

On the way to the electronic eye

Scientists at the California University of Technology have managed to create a prosthesis capable of performing the functions of the retina in cases of its damage. While using it, a person sees an image in the form of a blurry picture. But a more advanced version of the prosthesis is already being prepared.

Melanoma: the main culprit is not moles or ultraviolet light, but genes

The main problem is hereditary predisposition, not ultraviolet radiation, which only provokes the malignancy of melanocytes. At least five genes are associated with melanoma, and a person who has all five variants of these genes characteristic of melanoma in his genome is at about 8 times higher risk of the disease than someone who does not have them at all.

"Science for Life Extension" at the World Gerontological Congress

Employees and experts of the Science for Life Extension Foundation took an active part in the congress, including presenting to its participants a new version of the comprehensive interdisciplinary program "Science against Aging".

Nanomedicine-2025

In solving social problems, experts gave preference to nanocontainer technologies for vector drug delivery, technologies for creating biocompatible materials based on micro- and nanostructures, and technologies for creating magnetic nanocarriers for medical purposes.

The egg was first grown in a test tube

Doctors from the USA were able to grow a mature egg in the laboratory from ovarian tissues taken from a donor. The work may lead to a breakthrough in the field of reproductive technologies and infertility treatment.

An immunosuppressant will not help to live up to a hundred years :(

Unfortunately, the creation of effective "medicines for old age" is still far away. Rapamycin has many side effects and therefore cannot be used to prolong people's lives. In particular, it has an immunosuppressive effect (weakens the immune defense of the body).

The inevitable nano-future

Future scenarios are determined primarily by the choice of priorities for technological development. The development of modern information and environmental technologies is the "inevitable future" of all scenarios of global development. At the same time, the rapid development of biotechnologies or nanotechnologies generates special scenario branches: the alternative scenario "Biotechnological Revolution" and the breakthrough scenario "Quantum Reality".

Cellular technologies: treatment, recovery, rejuvenation

Both systemic and local administration of autologous adult stem cells and umbilical cord blood cells gives a proven multiple positive effect in the treatment of various diseases and in cosmetology practice.

General regenerating effect of stem cell transplantation: application

A matter of life and death

The Science for Life Extension Foundation has asked renowned scientists working in various fields of biology to answer questions related to aging.