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Cellular technologies

Stem cells identical to natural ones

Induced pluripotent stem cells differ little from natural ones in the microRNA profile, which means that the technology for their production is quite reliable.

05.07.2017
Biomedicine

A disco instead of a bar?

UK scientists are preparing to conduct the first clinical trials of the therapeutic effect of MDMA on people struggling with alcohol addiction.

05.07.2017
Genetics

Clarifying the evolution of Homo sapiens

In the DNA of the oldest Neanderthals in Europe, traces of a population of ancient people, relatives of the ancestors of Cro-Magnons, who penetrated into Europe at least 220 thousand years ago, have been found.

05.07.2017
Nanotechnology

Neurotransmitter

The new "transistor neuron" operates at speeds from 0.01 to 15 Hz, which will allow in the future to create a number of high-speed neuromorphic hardware based on it.

05.07.2017
Healthy skepticism

Tolerasm grows stronger

Perhaps, uterus transplantation to transsexuals, gays and even heterosexual (I can't call them normal) men will be at the state expense.

04.07.2017
Biotechnologies - into life

Bigfarma-2017, the first half of the year

We present to your attention the traditional semi-annual review of the most important news of the pharmaceutical industry and medical biotech, prepared by expert Ilya Yasny.

04.07.2017
New in Gerontology

Gait speed will help predict dementia

A group of scientists from the USA has shown that slowing down gait in combination with a decrease in the gray matter of the hippocampus allows predicting dementia.

04.07.2017
New in Gerontology

A common enemy

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases have different risk factors and clinical manifestations, but the formation of pathological accumulations of proteins in both cases stimulates the same enzyme.

04.07.2017
Genetics

Beta blockers alter gene expression

Popular antiarrhythmic drugs are able to fight potentially dangerous genetic changes associated with cardiovascular diseases.

04.07.2017
Biomedicine

Two-faced STING

The STING protein, a promising model of cancer immunotherapy, can lead to the death of T-lymphocytes. This side effect can be used to treat autoimmune diseases.

04.07.2017
Genetics

RNA instead of telomerase

In the absence of telomerase, non-coding TERRA RNAs can restore shortened yeast telomeres. They are found not only in yeast, but also in other organisms, including humans.

03.07.2017
Various

Hacker attack on the brain

It's time to start thinking about how developments in the field of neuroprosthetics and brain-machine interfaces can face abuse and how to protect yourself from it.

03.07.2017
Your health

Beer with probiotic

Soon beer lovers may have an excuse to their wife: they say, I didn't want to drink, but what to do is necessary for health, I had to force myself.

03.07.2017
Other life sciences

Antiretroviral retrovirus

Antigens of endogenous HERV-K retroviruses, released in an infected T-cell of the immune system, reduce the number and activity of HIV copies produced by it.

03.07.2017
Controversial

$100,000 for elephant mammoth

The American billionaire and one of the founders of the PayPal payment system, Peter Thiel, invested $ 100,000 in the work of the laboratory of Harvard geneticist George Church.

03.07.2017
Other life sciences

Argus in Russia

Scientists and doctors from the Scientific and Clinical Center of Otorhinolaryngology of the FMBA of Russia conducted the first operation in the history of Russia to implant a cyberset in the eye of a blind patient.

03.07.2017
Theories of aging

Why do men live less than women

The risk of running into one of the most common 15 causes of death in the United States is greater for men than for women in almost all cases – and these causes are responsible for 80% of all deaths.

30.06.2017
Genetics

"Disease genes" may not affect health

11 out of 50 survey participants were found to have genetic variants that cause the risk of developing rare hereditary diseases, but only two showed symptoms.

30.06.2017
Biomedicine

New medicine

Biotech and medicine are among the most fashionable, popular and interesting areas in high–tech business. What niches are being formed in this industry?

30.06.2017