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Genetics

About genes and not only

Konstantin Severinov – about how the human gene pool is changing, whether there is "bad genetics" and whether the coronavirus can change us as a species.

22.06.2021
Other life sciences

Mechanism of inflammation and death

Scientists have found out under what conditions interleukin-1a matures and is released – an important part of triggering the immune response.

21.06.2021
Bioethics

Creepy experiment

Chinese scientists conducted an experiment on rats, which the Western media with horror dubbed blatant and "Frankenstein".

21.06.2021
Your health

Which fasting is better?

A new clinical study has questioned the effectiveness of popular diets based on interval fasting.

21.06.2021
Cellular technologies

Mini Kidneys v.2.0

Organoids with a tubular system similar to the renal one will allow studying kidney diseases and testing new methods of their treatment and recovery.

18.06.2021
Biomedicine

Up to one hundred percent

The Novavax vaccine protects against the symptomatic course of COVID-19 with an efficiency of 90.4%, and from the disease in moderate and severe form – by 100%.

18.06.2021
New in Gerontology

Anti-aging protein

The rate of brain aging largely depends on the effectiveness of the ADORA2B protein. Therefore, scientists have called it an "anti-aging protein".

18.06.2021
Biomedicine

Resurrection of Novobiocin

An outdated antibiotic has destroyed the "invulnerable" forms of breast cancer in mice. Scientists hope to continue experiments and test its effect on humans.

18.06.2021
Biomedicine

Plaque Eaters

The new treatment stops the progression of Alzheimer's disease and improves cognitive functions in monkeys.

17.06.2021
Biotechnologies - into life

Instead of Gardasil

The Nanolek vaccine will be the first domestic analogue of existing HPV vaccines.

17.06.2021
Various

Is CureVac ineffective?

The company explained the relatively low effectiveness of the vaccine by the presence of an unprecedented number of variants of the virus.

17.06.2021
Other life sciences

Incorrect methods

The conclusions of many articles about the benefits of psychedelics need to be revised, since the results of almost all such studies are biased.

17.06.2021
Biomedicine

Fat is a cancer protector

A study on mice showed that one of the omega-3 fatty acids, accumulating in the tumor microenvironment, kills cancer cells.

16.06.2021
Nanotechnology

Prison for viruses

American and German chemists suggested using shells made of DNA molecules to bind viruses instead of protein capsules.

16.06.2021
Genetics

Overthrowing the basics

RNA segments can be written back into DNA. This discovery can affect many areas of biology.

16.06.2021
Theories of aging

You can't fool them

A new study explains why life expectancy increases – not by slowing down aging.

16.06.2021
Other life sciences

Changing atherosclerosis to dementia

Scientists from the University of California at Los Angeles have shown that taking lipophilic statins increased the risk of dementia by more than half.

16.06.2021
Other life sciences

Against your own and others '

Intracellular lipid oxidation damages both cancer and immune cells. Protecting T cells will help strengthen cancer immunotherapy.

15.06.2021