Articles

New in Gerontology

Read more – you will live longer

"The results of the work indicate that the benefits of books include prolonging life so that you can read more of them," the researchers conclude with a bit of humor.

24.08.2016

Grants and competitions

OncoBioMed 2016

The target audience of the competitive selection: oncologists, chemotherapists, oncologists, researchers and innovative companies engaged in developments in the field of oncology.

24.08.2016

Cellular technologies

Bone marrow transplantation without chemo and radiotherapy

The new approach increases the safety of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, significantly expanding the possibilities of using this technology.

23.08.2016

Genetics

Junk DNA Affects Skeletal Development

Another message about the functionality of "genomic garbage" was published by Portuguese geneticists: the number of edges in the formation of the skeleton depends on the "meaningless" parts of the genome.

23.08.2016

Genetics

Another reason for the extinction of Neanderthals?

Neanderthals were too sensitive to substances formed by the combustion of wood and coal, and could well have died out from diseases arising from fire smoke.

23.08.2016

Controversial

Do you want to try to get younger for $8,000?

The American startup Ambrosia has announced the start of paid clinical trials of rejuvenation techniques using blood plasma transfusion of young people.

23.08.2016

Biomedicine

Fecal-based drug failed in clinical trials

In the first phase of clinical trials for infection caused by Clostridium difficile, the drug helped 29 out of 30 participants. The second phase ended in complete failure.

23.08.2016

Nanotechnology

Hydrogel patch will cope with tumors

So far, the triple-action gel has been tested only on mice, but the authors believe that it will effectively cope with malignant neoplasms in humans.

23.08.2016

Your health

Disturbances in the biological clock increase the likelihood of cancer

If the genes responsible for the daily rhythm stop working as they should, this increases the risk of a rapidly growing malignant tumor.

23.08.2016

Biotechnologies - into life

Bacteria will turn drains into clean water and electricity

In a new device for wastewater treatment – a microbial fuel cell – bacteria consume organic substances and "produce" protons and electrons.

23.08.2016

Note to the businessman

Prospects for investments in biotech

Billions of dollars are already being invested in biotechnology. Let's try to figure out why people are already investing a lot of money in them today and what awaits us in the very near future.

22.08.2016

Your health

Long-lived children have healthy hearts until old age

The age of death of a person's parents can be used to predict the risk of developing heart disease and many other aspects of the state of the cardiovascular system.

22.08.2016

New in Gerontology

Stem cells and aging

Aging can be considered as a process in which a pool of endogenous stem cells progressively loses its ability to replace damaged cells with age.

22.08.2016

Bioethics

Transplantation in Russia

It is very difficult to talk about organ donation in Russia. It seems that at the word "transplantation" our compatriots' logic fails and pure panic turns on.

22.08.2016

Biomedicine

How the Universal Cancer vaccine works

A team of scientists from several scientific institutions in Germany managed to adapt an antiviral protection system for immunotherapy of cancer tumors.

22.08.2016

Controversial

The world of centenarians

If ever a person's life expectancy increases to several hundred years, it will entail a change in the entire way of life that we are accustomed to. The world will be different.

22.08.2016

Cloning

Dolly v.2: elderly, but healthy

Clones obtained from the same cell line as Dolly, aged 8 years (60-80 by human standards), are quite healthy animals. There are no signs of premature aging in sheep.

22.08.2016

Bioethics

The reaction of ethical rejection

Valery Spiridonov, the first candidate for a head transplant, shares his opinion on the medical, psychological and ethical problems of such an operation.

22.08.2016

Other life sciences

Amyloid plaques in the transparent brain

The visualization method, which makes the brain tissue transparent, made it possible to see a three-dimensional picture of the location of clusters of beta-amyloid plaques in the brains of people suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

22.07.2016

Cellular technologies

Cord blood for the treatment of macular degeneration

As part of a new clinical study, patients with a dry form of age-related macular degeneration are injected with umbilical cord blood cells differentiated into retinal pigment epithelium cells.

22.07.2016