Life Sciences

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Biomedicine

Vitamin C against leukemia

The authors of the work are going to conduct experiments not on a mouse model, but with real cases of leukemia, and find out what other types of blood cancers vitamin C can work against.

30.08.2017
Other life sciences

How to control the brain from a distance

With the help of a remote magnetic field, you can turn on and off different zones in the brain, but for this, however, the brain itself needs to be slightly modified and magnetic nanoparticles introduced into it.

30.08.2017
Prolonging youth

SENS: Where are we now?

One of the authors of this article had the opportunity to talk to Dr. Aubrey de Gray and ask him one of the most important questions about SENS: where are we now?

30.08.2017
Biomedicine

The Apocalypse is canceled

The main saviors of human civilization today and even more so tomorrow are small six–legged animals, rummaging through garbage and carrion.

29.08.2017
Other life sciences

Microbots in the stomach

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego have successfully tested micro-motors to protect and release drugs in the stomach.

29.08.2017
Biomedicine

A heart attack without a scar on the heart

After testing carbacycline on mice with myocardial infarction, the scientists noted that PPARδ stimulation improves cardiac function and minimizes scar tissue formation.

29.08.2017
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of neurodegenerative diseases

Scientists have managed to test the new method so far only on cell lines, but the results look promising from the point of view of therapy of still incurable diseases.

29.08.2017
Prolonging youth

Translating the biological clock

Stem cells of mice transferred to a low-calorie diet aged more slowly. But scientists do not recommend repeating this experiment on yourself at home.

29.08.2017
Genetic engineering

Piglets for transplantologists

Cloning pigs without endogenous retroviruses will facilitate the cultivation of pig organs suitable for human transplantation and make them safer.

29.08.2017
Cellular technologies

Tissue nanotransfection

So the developers called a new technology that allows you to directly transform skin cells into other types of cells and use them to treat various diseases.

29.08.2017
Other life sciences

Diabetes and Alzheimer's disease

In type II diabetes, clusters of amyloid protein form in the cells of the pancreas, which are probably the cause of the death of β-cells.

29.08.2017
Nanotechnology

Ultrathin biosensors

Graphene sensors with a thickness of less than 0.5 microns can be applied to the skin in the same way as "transfer tattoos" and used to remove physiological indicators.

28.08.2017
Genetic engineering

The skin flap will regulate metabolism

Researchers from the University of Chicago have protected mice from diabetes and obesity using transplants of genetically modified skin cells.

28.08.2017
Other life sciences

What makes gamers stupid?

Another study showed that the influence of video games on the hippocampus depends on two factors – the genre of the game and the strategy of orientation in space.

28.08.2017
Nanotechnology

Net for cages

American researchers have presented micro robots that can not only move in a certain direction, but also manipulate individual cells.

28.08.2017
Genetics

Primordial chaos

At the very first stages of specialization, the cells of the embryo choose their fate – the direction of differentiation – randomly switching on and off a variety of genes.

28.08.2017
Genetic engineering

The failure of a CRISPR/Cas9 competitor

The author of the NgAgo protein genome editing technique, under pressure from the scientific community, withdrew an article published in May 2016 from the journal Nature Biotechnology.

28.08.2017
Other life sciences

Microflora helps fight the flu

The staff of the University of Washington Medical School showed how the intestinal microbiota can reduce inflammation in the lungs during infection with the flu virus.

28.08.2017