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Genetic engineering

Don't be afraid of genome editing

CRISPR/Cas9 makes 1000 times fewer "typos" when editing embryos than mutations during natural fertilization.

21.10.2019
Nanotechnology

Antiamyloid fullerenes

Researchers from ITEB RAS have discovered a new property of fullerene derivatives C60, which will help in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

21.10.2019
Genetic engineering

Tobacco is not for smoking

For the first time, Russian geneticists have grown plants that glow in the dark without adding any substances or ultraviolet irradiation.

21.10.2019
Genetic engineering

False start

The Nature report that the Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov started working with the eggs of a deaf woman does not correspond to reality.

21.10.2019
Nanotechnology

Antimicrobial mesh

Scientists from Australia and Japan have developed a mesh of nanofibers for the delivery of two antibacterial drugs in the treatment of wounds.

18.10.2019
Your health

Make yourself a friend

Dog owners have a longer life and a better state of the cardiovascular system, especially those who have experienced a heart attack or stroke and live alone.

18.10.2019
New in Gerontology

Let the neurons rest

The level of neural activity affects life expectancy. A key role in this is played by a protein called REST ("rest").

18.10.2019
Biomedicine

Folding is a danger signal

Violation of the three-dimensional structure of β-amyloid can predict the development of Alzheimer's disease long before the first symptoms appear.

17.10.2019
Biomedicine

Estrogen for the mind

Hormonal background affects the intelligence of women: early and long-term use of estrogens during menopause is effective in combating cognitive impairment.

17.10.2019
Genetics

The third "short sleep gene"

Doctors have found another mutation that allows its carriers to sleep for 4.3-5.5 hours a day and get enough sleep.

17.10.2019
Biomedicine

Tranexamic acid against TBI

The results of a major study aimed at improving the treatment of patients with traumatic brain injuries have been published.

17.10.2019
Cellular technologies

Cell therapy of multiple sclerosis

St. Petersburg doctors are reviving the method of treating autoimmune diseases with patients' own stem cells.

17.10.2019
Biomedicine

A lie for salvation

The new drug tricks the immune system into perceiving cancer cells as infected with a virus and destroying them.

16.10.2019
Biomedicine

Cannabis against drugs

Cannabidiol can also help ordinary "nicotine" smokers and, possibly, alcoholics to get rid of their addiction.

16.10.2019
Cellular technologies

Space meat

Why it is important to print meat in space and how it is connected with the modeling of snowballs, donor organs and debts of Roscosmos.

16.10.2019
Genetic engineering

Pig's heart

Genetically modified animals, in whose bodies organs will be grown for transplantation to humans, will appear in Russia in the coming years.

16.10.2019