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How Cancer Cheats T-Killers

Another mechanism has been revealed by which tumor cells can bypass both natural immunity and therapeutic strategies.

20.09.2022

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Coacervate microdroplets

An international team of scientists has constructed an artificial protocell capable of gene expression and ATP production.

19.09.2022

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Trap for vesicles

A team of biophysicists from MIPT and Skoltech with colleagues has developed a new technology for isolating extracellular vesicles from biological fluids.

16.09.2022

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Exercises against parkinsonism

The hormone irisin, released into the blood during aerobic exercise, reduces the level of alpha-synuclein associated with Parkinson's disease.

13.09.2022

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Laser welding for surgeons

The world's first method of healing incisions of internal and external organs without scarring has been developed by Russian scientists.

12.09.2022

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Microflora in a test tube

A synthetic microbiome of more than 100 species of bacteria was grown and successfully planted in mice.

09.09.2022

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Serotonin has nothing to do with it?

Decades of research have not provided clear evidence that serotonin levels or its activity are responsible for depression.

09.09.2022

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Brain Regeneration

Scientists have found out the molecular mechanisms by which the axolotl manages to restore the brain even after removing a significant part of it.

08.09.2022

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The benefits of hybridization

Presumably, interspecific interbreeding played an important role in the formation of modern man.

07.09.2022

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Royal Longevity

Ant queens produce a lot of insulin that promotes the development of eggs, but at the same time their ovaries synthesize its blocker.

06.09.2022

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A new model of cyborg cockroaches

Flexible solar panels do not interfere with the insect's movements and allow it to recharge its onboard electronics in half an hour.

06.09.2022

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Electrical stimulation of memory

20-minute electrical stimulation of the brain for four consecutive days shows an improvement in memory in the elderly for at least one month.

06.09.2022

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Almost as alive

An artificial neuron can both secrete and receive dopamine together with the natural neurons of animals.

31.08.2022

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And at the same time from gray hair

Chemotherapy of leukemia returned the pigmentation of his hair to an elderly and completely gray-haired patient.

29.08.2022

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Resurrected Pigs

American researchers were able to restore and maintain blood supply to the organs of pigs for six hours an hour after death.

26.08.2022

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Stentrode in the States

Representatives of the American company Synchron announced that for the first time in the history of the United States, they implanted a human brain-computer interface Stentrode.

25.07.2022

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Hormone of paternal love

Hypothalamic oxytocin neurons have been called a key regulator of caring behavior in mouse fathers.

22.07.2022

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Long hibernation

Although oocytes are formed in the ovaries before a woman is born, they retain the ability to fertilize for decades.

22.07.2022

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Necrophiles involuntarily

Biologists have found out how a parasitic fungus causes male houseflies to mate with the corpses of infected females.

19.07.2022

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Hibernation without muscle atrophy

Protein, which accumulates in the blood of bears during hibernation, stops the processes leading to the degradation of muscle tissue.

18.07.2022