Life Sciences

Found results: 11545

Genetic engineering

Fully synthetic

Bioengineers have learned how to write bacterial genome codes on a computer and synthesize long DNA molecules using them.

17.02.2020
Other life sciences

The "kissing hormone" was tested on people

Kisspeptin plays an important role in the formation of sexual arousal in men. Moreover, the lower the libido, the greater the effect of the injection.

17.02.2020
New in Gerontology

Growth matters

Tall young men have a lower risk of developing dementia in old age.

14.02.2020
Biomedicine

Surveillance of Parkinsonism

Monitoring the patient's condition by biomarkers in the blood will help to effectively adjust the existing supportive therapy.

14.02.2020
Genetic engineering

Chimera against brain cancer

A chimeric virus containing one of the genes of the causative agent of Ebola helps to purposefully destroy glioblastoma cells in mice.

14.02.2020
Prolonging youth

Stop the "ticking clock"

Scientists have reversed the aging process of mouse eggs. The results of the study will help to create new drugs for the treatment of infertility.

14.02.2020
New in Gerontology

Microflora and age

The scientists plan to use the obtained results to study the aging process and what role the microbiota plays in this.

14.02.2020
Genetic engineering

You can, but no one needs to

"Golden rice" is recognized as a safe food and is allowed in the Philippines. But will a useful product get on the table of those whom it should save?

13.02.2020
Biomedicine

New test for Alzheimer's disease

Diagnostics is performed by a drop of blood and with high accuracy identifies the main biomarkers of the disease.

13.02.2020
Other life sciences

Old bones will still serve

A unique technology for manufacturing polymer implants has been developed, where a real bone serves as a "negative" for casting the product.

13.02.2020
Other life sciences

Leak in the test tube

Organoids from the cells of people with leaky gut syndrome helped to find its biomarkers and outline the path to treatment.

12.02.2020
Prolonging youth

Inflammation Switch

The molecular switch reverses chronic inflammation and suspends aging.

12.02.2020
Other life sciences

Epidemic Protocol

We are in the midst of a new epidemic, but there is little reliable information about it. Molecular epidemiology helps in this situation.

12.02.2020
New in Gerontology

Protection from radicals

Oxidative stress, which naked diggers actively accumulate at the growth stage, is compensated by low metabolism at maturity.

12.02.2020
Other life sciences

Supermicrosurgery

Dutch doctors have tested on humans a robotic system capable of stitching capillaries with a diameter of fractions of a millimeter.

12.02.2020
Nanotechnology

Exactly in the cage

Scientists have found a way to noninvasively release a drug from polymer carriers inside cancer cells.

12.02.2020
Other life sciences

From the camera to the brain

Following the first patient, five more volunteers suffering from blindness will receive a bionic eye.

12.02.2020