Life Sciences

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Cellular technologies

The buzzword "organoids"

The creation of organoids is based on the principle of "self-assembly" of a group of stem cells or even already differentiated cells.

31.01.2020
Biomedicine

Disulfiram against cancer

The drug used in the treatment of alcoholism blocks a certain protein in macrophages associated with a tumor.

31.01.2020
Genetics

Metastases: a new level of control

AKAP8 protein suppresses breast cancer metastasis by stimulating the synthesis of "good" forms of the other two proteins.

30.01.2020
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of HGB

Scientists have presented the first results of treatment with gene therapy in patients with chronic granulomatous disease.

30.01.2020
Other life sciences

Sorting through the options

Scottish scientists have developed a system that speeds up the screening of potential drugs for oral male contraception thousands of times.

30.01.2020
Other life sciences

Implantable pancreas

The developers called the prototype of the implanted device made of titanium a "Bio-artificial pancreas".

30.01.2020
Cellular technologies

Wrong organoids

Miniature living models of the human brain may not reflect the actual development of this organ.

30.01.2020
Cellular technologies

Partial heart transplant

If the results of the operation give the expected effect, then such a procedure will reduce the number of complete heart transplants.

30.01.2020
Biomedicine

Diagnosis and treatment

The innovative patch recognizes sensitive and antibiotic-resistant bacteria and destroys them in two ways.

30.01.2020
Biomedicine

Long- lasting psilocybin

Even one dose of psilocybin combined with psychotherapy has a beneficial effect for five years.

29.01.2020
Nanotechnology

Nanorobot for oncologists

The nanorobot created from DNA fragments will be able not only to destroy cancer cells, but also to recognize them throughout the body.

29.01.2020
Biomedicine

Precision Oncology

The new method analyzes tens of thousands of genes and proteins from a small sample, which does not require serious surgery to take.

29.01.2020
New in Gerontology

Masked aging

Early mortality is a manifestation of natural selection for unfavorable mutations, which has nothing to do with aging.

29.01.2020
Prolonging youth

How science suggests delaying death

When aging is recognized as a disease, what genes are associated with it, is there a limit to longevity and how dangerous biohacking is.

29.01.2020
Biomedicine

Overcome resistance

A combination of the two drugs may allow the successful treatment of patients with cancers associated with a mutation of the HER2 gene.

28.01.2020
Cellular technologies

Pain-relieving stem cells

The first study of pain therapy in mice using human stem cells has been completed successfully.

28.01.2020
Genetic engineering

A Step towards Modeling the RNA World

The work published in PNAS brings closer the creation of self-replicating RNAs that may have given rise to life on Earth.

28.01.2020
Other life sciences

A new blood component

According to the authors of the study, one milliliter of human blood plasma contains from 200,000 to 3.7 million mitochondria.

28.01.2020