Life Sciences

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Cellular technologies

Pig neurons

LCT, a company developing technology for the treatment of Parkinson's disease with pig cells, has announced the success of early clinical trials and the beginning of the next phase of research.

13.06.2017
Nanotechnology

Nanolasers for oncologists

A group of American and Russian scientists has created the smallest plasmon nanolasers that will find application in the diagnosis and treatment of oncological diseases.

13.06.2017
Other life sciences

Dogma in doubt

Russian scientists have found that alternative splicing of matrix RNAs contributes significantly less to the diversity of proteins inside the cell than expected.

13.06.2017
Biomedicine

Tuberculosis vaccine will help cure diabetes

American doctors have proposed using a conventional tuberculosis vaccine – the well–known BCG - for the treatment of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

13.06.2017
Other life sciences

Biosensors (Part 1)

The use of biosensors has become of great importance in the fields of biomedicine, food security, defense, security and environmental quality monitoring.

09.06.2017
Theories of aging

Age-related diseases and mitochondria

Neurodegenerative and oncological diseases are closely related to intracellular energy metabolism and mitochondrial dysfunction.

09.06.2017
Other life sciences

Prevent a seizure

Scientists have developed and tested on rats a prototype brain-computer interface for predicting and preventing seizures in patients with epilepsy.

09.06.2017
Other life sciences

Protein radiometers

The glow color of the obelin protein changes even at low radiation doses, which opens up the possibility of creating new systems for testing radiation toxicity.

09.06.2017
Other life sciences

Help a neighbor

Cancer cells that have developed resistance to a lack of nutrients and chemotherapy transmit a signal to other tumor cells that includes the same resistance.

08.06.2017
Biomedicine

Yogurt bacteria defeat drug-resistant

Researchers from Howard University reported that bacteria from ordinary yogurt can serve as an effective weapon against "super-microbes".

08.06.2017
Other life sciences

Prosthetics by personal measure

The novelty of the development lies in the fact that the prostheses are created personified for each person, taking into account the individual characteristics of the patient.

08.06.2017
Other life sciences

Accelerated X-ray structural analysis of proteins

Scientists from the University of Grenoble and MIPT have created a highly efficient method for calculating X-ray scattering curves for analyzing the structure of protein molecules.

08.06.2017
Other life sciences

About the benefits of a "beer belly"

Internal fatty deposits of the omentum bring a lot of benefits to the body. Scientists have pointed to another of their functions – protection from infections and toxins.

08.06.2017
Other life sciences

Why is the heart not being renewed

The discovery of the fact that the Hippo and DAG signaling pathways act as a "brake" on cardiomyocyte division may lead to the possibility of updating the heart muscle.

07.06.2017
Biomedicine

Cancer Treatment: Good news

Several medicines that have proven themselves well in the fight against common forms of cancer set a new standard for the treatment of many types of cancer.

07.06.2017
Nanotechnology

Interactive tattoo

Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have synthesized inks that respond to metabolic shifts.

07.06.2017
Cellular technologies

Stem cells against blood clots

Scientists of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS have established the ability of stem cells to restore blood flow in thrombosed limbs.

06.06.2017