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Genetic engineering

Accurate to the nucleotide

The new version of the popular genomic editor CRISPR/Cas9 allows you to accurately remove and correct mutations with a length of just one "letter" of DNA.

21.04.2016
Prolonging youth

The Key to Healthy Longevity

Removal of the Per2 gene prevents a decrease in the number of immune cells in the blood of aging mice and increases their life expectancy by 15% without increasing the incidence of cancer.

21.04.2016
Biomedicine

Still hereditary diseases

The American firm JScreen has launched a massive campaign to conduct genetic tests for 104 diseases, the most common in the Jewish environment.

20.04.2016
Biomedicine

Antibiotic development: a new target

American and Japanese scientists have identified changes in the structure of an enzyme that serves as a promising target for new antibiotics.

20.04.2016
Biomedicine

Chimera against cancer

The idea of creating chimeric antigen receptors (chimeric antigen receptor, CAR) belongs to chemist and immunologist Zelig Eskhar from the Weizmann Institute of Sciences.

20.04.2016
Genetics

Genome of Russia

More than two hundred listeners gathered at the conference on human population and medical genetics "Genome of Russia", which took place in the Hypercube of the Skolkovo Innovation Center.

20.04.2016
Controversial

The prospects for telemedicine are amazing

In the professional community, the initiative of the Ministry of Health is supported, but they are afraid that it will break against the harsh Russian realities.

20.04.2016
Nanotechnology

LCD display on the skin

The ultra-thin and ultra-flexible protective coating will allow the development of skin displays for visualizing blood oxygen levels, heart rate and many other purposes.

19.04.2016
Biomedicine

Cancer therapy

Tumors obey the same rules of natural selection as other living creatures. Practitioners today are beginning to use this knowledge.

19.04.2016
Various

Android made in China

The robot, which is difficult to distinguish from a living person, was developed by scientists from the Chinese University of Science and Technology, who put artificial intelligence and deep self-learning functions into its electronic "brain".

19.04.2016
Controversial

The New Frankenstein

The whole project took more than 11 years. But the results were worth it: a fully modular body was created, for which there are many different configurations.

19.04.2016
New in Gerontology

Immune System Proteins Kill Synapses

In the early stages of the body's development, proteins of the main histocompatibility complex of class I endow the body with the ability to control muscles, but deprive it of this ability in old age.

18.04.2016
Cellular technologies

Choose the best

To use iPSC for treatment, at least a dozen cells should be isolated, and then use one of them with the best mitochondria to create a therapeutic cell line.

18.04.2016
Genetics

Microbes and bacteriophages: an arms race

The end of this race is not in sight, and it is unlikely that anyone will come out of it the final winner. However, knowledge of its mechanisms will allow people to at least partially take control of it in the future.

18.04.2016
Genetic engineering

Origami from synthetic DNA

Volumetric structures made of synthetic DNA can improve drug delivery systems: they persist in blood plasma several times longer than "origami" made of natural DNA.

18.04.2016
Biomedicine

Helminths and Crohn's disease: new data

Some parasitic worms can prevent Crohn's disease and other inflammatory bowel diseases by affecting the composition of its microflora.

15.04.2016
Other life sciences

Cooperation with the occupiers

Cancer cells are able to force healthy cells to help their reproduction. To do this, they use a mutated gene responsible for cell division.

15.04.2016
Cellular technologies

Know-how of scientists from Salk

In the next few years, the developers of a simple, fast and inexpensive way to obtain human pancreatic beta cells hope to begin clinical research.

15.04.2016
Biomedicine

A new target for male contraception

The TSSK2 enzyme appears in the last stages of sperm formation, and suppression of its activity will show a minimum of side effects.

15.04.2016