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Prolonging youth

Calories and chronic inflammation

A new life extension mechanism has been discovered that links calorie restriction with the regulation of the immune system.

05.04.2019
Biomedicine

Therapeutic HPV vaccine

The experimental drug has successfully passed the II phase of clinical trials.

05.04.2019
Genetics

SDA for genes

Some pairs of nucleotides in DNA serve as a kind of traffic lights that regulate gene expression.

05.04.2019
Genetics

Competitor 23andMe

The GenePrism test analyzes only those genetic variants that really significantly affect the risk of developing diseases.

04.04.2019
Other life sciences

Testosterone is to blame

The experiment confirmed that testosterone helps liver cancer grow – due to the fact that it suppresses the "anti-cancer" hormone.

04.04.2019
Nanotechnology

Illuminated, warmed up…

Chinese scientists have developed a method for turning on the CRISPR-Cas9 system only in the right place using infrared radiation.

04.04.2019
Genetics

Intelligence in one snip?

Predicting IQ by one change in a particular gene is like guessing the denouement of a detective story by a single letter in the middle of a chapter.

04.04.2019
New in Gerontology

The benefits of competition

Scientists have found a protein that simultaneously helps cells compete with each other and keeps the skin young.

04.04.2019
Genetics

Rapid genetic testing

The CRISPR chip allows you to quickly identify mutations and test the effectiveness of gene editing.

03.04.2019
Other life sciences

A hundred times faster

A new method of photoacoustic microscopy has increased the speed of identification of cancer cells from two pieces per minute to two hundred.

03.04.2019
Genetic engineering

Bacterial web

By dividing the fibroin gene in half, scientists managed to synthesize it in bacteria and get closer to the industrial production of the web.

03.04.2019
Biomedicine

Biochip for "liquid biopsy"

The device, a prototype of which has been tested on animals, can continuously collect live cancer cells from the patient's blood.

03.04.2019
Other life sciences

For just $200

Smart pajamas will remember the poses in which its owner slept, record the heartbeat and breathing rate.

03.04.2019
Exhibitions and conferences

Congress on Regenerative Medicine

The IV National Congress on Regenerative Medicine will be held on November 20-23, 2019 at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

03.04.2019
Genetic engineering

CRISPR bleached lizards

Scientists from the University of Georgia with the help of CRISPR-Cas 9 managed to turn the offspring of naturally brown lizards into albinos.

02.04.2019
Biomedicine

Against glioblastoma

The results of phase I clinical trials prove the efficacy and safety of the vaccine for the treatment of patients with brain cancer.

02.04.2019
Biomedicine

A target for a panacea

By acting on the FKBP51 protein, depression, obesity, alcoholism, brain cancer, chronic pain, and possibly much more can be treated.

02.04.2019
Other life sciences

Neurogenesis before old age

New data confirm that at least in some areas of the brain, the process of neurogenesis lasts a lifetime.

02.04.2019