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Genetics

Protection against deadly mutations: details

Perhaps gene backups are not the only way to avoid the negative impact of mutations, and genes may have different systems of "safety net" for each other.

13.04.2016
Nanotechnology

Peptide nanotubes by template

Molecules of a certain class of peptides in an aqueous solution independently form transparent nanotubes with a diameter and length of exactly 100 nanometers.

13.04.2016
Biomedicine

Biosensor for the detection of tick-borne encephalitis

By the same principle, it is possible to develop probes for the detection of other viruses: take the right antibody and combine it with a bioluminescent protein using an already known technology.

12.04.2016
Biomedicine

Monoclonal antibodies

Timofey Nemankin, Head of the Antibody Development Department at BIOCAD Corporation – about one of the most modern and promising areas in cancer treatment.

12.04.2016
Genetics

Protection against deadly mutations

Analysis of the genomes of almost 600,000 people revealed that 13 of them were completely resistant to one of the mutations, which were 100% likely to lead to fatal diseases.

12.04.2016
Various

Pedophiles need your help

Approximately 1.2 million pounds is not enough to continue clinical studies of the drug, which may save pedophiles from their orientation.

12.04.2016
Cellular technologies

Beta cells from fat deposits

Using genetic methods, adipose tissue stem cells were differentiated into mature functional insulin-producing cells, almost identical to the patient's beta cells.

12.04.2016
Genetic engineering

On the same rake

Chinese biologists have made a new attempt to use the CRISPR/Cas9 system to edit the genome of human embryos – the same unsuccessful as the last time.

11.04.2016
Healthy skepticism

How a virus makes a boy out of a girl (2)

The end of the story is about a popular science duck, born through the joint efforts of popularizing journalists from different countries.

11.04.2016
Healthy skepticism

How a virus makes a boy out of a girl (1)

The story is about how popularizers spread ignorant obscurantism instead of knowledge and turned the fascinating history of scientific research into shameful clowning.

11.04.2016
Genetic engineering

Cellular gene therapy of spinal cord injuries

Transplantation of umbilical cord blood cells with a built-in combination of two genes producing axon and vascular growth factors caused a powerful therapeutic effect in rats.

11.04.2016
Nanotechnology

Supersensor for early cancer diagnosis

The sensitivity of the new optical biosensor for cancer diagnosis based on nanostructured materials is a million times higher than the sensitivity of earlier versions.

11.04.2016
Prolonging youth

Lithium chloride as a geroprotector

The addition of a lithium-containing mood stabilization drug to food increases the life expectancy of fruit flies-fruit flies by 16%.

11.04.2016
Genetic engineering

DNA Archive

A system has been created that stores various information in synthesized DNA and extracts it back without errors.

08.04.2016
Controversial

Are telomeres the most inaccurate biological clock?

The length of telomeres when assessing the probability of a person's death within 5 years is significantly inferior to chronological age and mobility, which calls into question the feasibility of invasive and expensive analyses.

08.04.2016
Your health

How does the placebo effect work?

Cardiologist Yaroslav Ashikhmin – about drugs without proven efficacy, the mechanisms of their action and clinical studies of the effect of placebo on the body.

08.04.2016
Genetics

The mystery of lncRNA has been solved

Biologists from the University of Pennsylvania have found out what long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are needed for, whose role in the genome has long remained unknown.

08.04.2016
Other life sciences

HIV may develop resistance to gene therapy

An international team of scientists has found out that the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system – a potentially effective way to fight HIV – can make the immunodeficiency virus stronger.

08.04.2016