Life Sciences

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Genetics

Let's check the biological clock

BioAgeCalculator allows you to determine the biological age of a person based on a biochemical blood test and by means of an "epigenetic clock".

28.04.2021
Biomedicine

Tablets with insulin

The work of Japanese scientists opens up new opportunities for creating an effective oral remedy for millions of diabetics.

28.04.2021
Other life sciences

Against presbyopia

A transparent intracorneal implant will allow patients with age-related hyperopia to see well at close, medium and long distances.

27.04.2021
Other life sciences

Stress and life expectancy

Scientists have found out how the level of adrenal hormones affects the life expectancy of baboons.

27.04.2021
New in Gerontology

Better sleep – better sex

Lack of sleep and its poor quality negatively affect the quality of sexual life of women during menopause.

27.04.2021
Biomedicine

Immunity for rent

About preparations based on human immunoglobulin and the process of creating "COVID-globulin" – a unique development for the treatment of coronavirus.

27.04.2021
New in Gerontology

How muscles age

Scientists have compiled a comprehensive scheme of muscle aging in mice, which can be used to find treatments for sarcopenia in the elderly.

26.04.2021
Other life sciences

Almost one and a half times faster

The prototype exoskeleton is attached to the lower leg and increases the speed of movement by about 40% compared to the usual one.

26.04.2021
Genetic engineering

Not to darn, but to change the whole

The CRBR method does not correct a separate section of DNA, but inserts a new fully functional copy of the gene instead of the mutated one.

26.04.2021
Biomedicine

The reason is cellular "garbage"?

Scientists hope that the medicine with which they saved mice from Alzheimer's disease will be able to be used by humans.

23.04.2021
Genetics

The poisonous chromosome

The short life of men was associated with the "toxic" effect of the Y chromosome. However, so far biologists have studied this only by the example of fruit flies.

23.04.2021
Cellular technologies

Against the effects of stroke

To achieve the effect, a single injection was needed, and the result was preserved even after the removal of stem cells.

23.04.2021
Genetics

Without OTC

Cancer cells do not need quality control mechanisms for DNA repair during division, otherwise all new cells would have to die.

23.04.2021
Cellular technologies

Just one growth factor

Irish scientists have presented a biomaterial that provides a one-step approach for the restoration and vascularization of large bone defects.

22.04.2021
Cellular technologies

Retina on the grid

The new biocompatible substrate makes it possible to grow the retina, like a camera matrix, from "pixels" containing individual receptors.

22.04.2021
Nanotechnology

Microgrid with medicines

A micro-sized polymer mesh implanted into a niche after removal of a brain tumor kills the remaining cancer cells.

21.04.2021
Biomedicine

Restoring an erection

The new drug promotes the regeneration of the nerves responsible for erection, damaged by surgery for prostate cancer.

21.04.2021
Genetic engineering

Mice to study coronavirus

An important property of these mice is safety. They will not be infected with coronavirus before activation, and they can be kept in a regular vivarium.

21.04.2021
Genetics

Breakthrough in paleogenetics

After deciphering the DNA of Neanderthals obtained from the soil of caves, scientists restored the genomes of two species of bears using the same method.

21.04.2021