Life Sciences

Found results: 11545

Nanotechnology

Invisible biosensor

The device, no larger than a coin and thinner than a millimeter, has been successfully tested when implanted under the skin of laboratory animals.

07.04.2021
Genetic engineering

Therapeutic time-out

Depleted lymphocytes modified for CAR-T therapy can be reactivated if they are given a break.

06.04.2021
Biomedicine

Healing Accelerator

Boron-rich alginate hydrogel, which can be injected subcutaneously, is able to repair damaged muscle very quickly.

06.04.2021
Genetics

Heredity or environment?

Telomere length correlates with life expectancy, determined mostly by heredity, and not by living conditions and the environment.

06.04.2021
Cellular technologies

Less sweet!

Contrary to popular belief, satellite cells of skeletal muscles multiply faster in environments with low glucose levels.

06.04.2021
Other life sciences

Without wires

The first wireless brain-computer interface for patients with paralysis was tested on two volunteers.

06.04.2021
Genetic engineering

RNA therapy for blindness

One injection restored lost vision to a patient with a rare genetic disease.

05.04.2021
Cellular technologies

Protection against relapse

Stem cell transplantation prevents relapses after immunotherapy of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

05.04.2021
New in Gerontology

Effectiveness of senolytics

American scientists have discovered a non-invasive biomarker of the death of aged cells of the body.

05.04.2021
New in Gerontology

Baldness is reversible

Chronic stress leads to hair loss, but the supply of stem cells in the follicles is not depleted.

02.04.2021
Genetics

Damn dozen

Scientists have found thirteen previously unknown rare mutations associated with Alzheimer's disease.

02.04.2021
Genetics

Not just cholesterol

The SVEP1 gene works only at the stage of development of the body and is a promising target for the development of drugs against atherosclerosis.

02.04.2021
Genetics

Crohn's disease and Escherichia

Proteins produced by one of the strains of E. coli are one of the key factors in the appearance of Crohn's disease.

02.04.2021
Other life sciences

The second generation of xenobots

Improved micro-robots from embryonic cells of Xenopus laevis frogs demonstrated complex and partially controlled behavior.

02.04.2021
Genetics

Disable Arthritis

Exposure to just one protein can slow down and even cure rheumatoid arthritis.

01.04.2021
Other life sciences

Melanoma and testosterone

Testosterone levels in the body are statistically linked to the risk of developing potentially fatal skin cancer.

01.04.2021
Biomedicine

And from HIV too!

Metformin inhibits energy metabolism in immune cells, thereby preventing the virus from multiplying in them.

01.04.2021