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Genetics

Play Phylo – help the geneticists

You put together a puzzle, and at the same time – compare the sequences of nucleotides in the genes of different organisms. You have a chance to beat the supercomputer!

02.12.2010
Your health

Scary-scary glutamate

Many people are sure that sodium glutamate is a dangerous "chemistry" for health. In fact, glutamic acid itself and its salts are recognized as safe all over the world, including by the World Health Organization.

02.12.2010
Various

The evolution of morality

The question of what is good and what is bad is answered by human culture. This is the result not of biological, but of cultural and social evolution, which has long been much more important to us than biological evolution.

30.11.2010
Various

Wise old financier

A person begins to acquire the ability to make reasonable financial decisions between the ages of 20 and 30, reaching a peak by 50, and then this indicator again sharply decreases between 70 and 80. How to avoid "age-related" financial traps?

29.11.2010
Your health

Cancer: is it a shame to be a survivor?

The delusional Russian situation, when cancer patients are ashamed to be survivors, will probably be resolved when our medicine begins to demonstrate the same results in the treatment of oncology as the American one. It would be faster.

29.11.2010
Note to the businessman

It's time for a change in biotechnology

PwC Report "Restructuring of the Biotechnology Industry": in order to survive, companies must actively develop cooperation to develop a new business model focused on innovation and success.

29.11.2010
Prolonging youth

Rejuvenation by telomerase activation: article in Nature

The authors of the article on the method of rejuvenation of mice believe that telomerase activation can be used to treat rare diseases associated with premature aging, and maybe also to develop methods of rejuvenation of healthy people.

29.11.2010
Biomedicine

St. Petersburg HIV vaccine: first-hand details

Andrey Kozlov, PhD, Head of the project, Professor of St. Petersburg State University, Director of the Biomedical Center and Head of the laboratory of the Research Institute of Especially Pure Biological Products, tells about the trials of the HIV vaccine that have begun.

29.11.2010
Cellular technologies

Stem cells restored brain after stroke

Human stem cells have repaired brain damage caused by stroke. The experiment was conducted on rodents, but in the future similar techniques can be used on humans.

29.11.2010
Biomedicine

Returnees: Peter Chumakov, specialist in molecular biology of cancer

Another participant of the project, Sergey Netesov, talks about the treatment of cancer with the help of viruses that are safe for humans. The strain of oncolytic adenovirus created under his leadership is already undergoing clinical trials at the N.N. Blokhin Russian Research Center.

26.11.2010
Biomedicine

Breast cancer and non-coding RNAs

The results of the study of the role of non-coding RNAs in the development and metastasis of breast cancer are already being used in an experimental program for the treatment of "incurable" tumors.

25.11.2010
Other life sciences

Fighting obesity: Cheat the Hunger hormone

Hoping to develop a drug that suppresses hunger, the researchers blocked the work of a protein that activates the "hunger hormone" – ghrelin.

24.11.2010
Your health

Diabetics! Switch from pills to red!

Some red wines contain such an amount of polyphenols that the biological activity of one glass of such wine is equivalent to several daily doses of antidiabetic drugs.

23.11.2010
Grants and competitions

Presidential grants for young scientists

The subject of the competitions is the right to receive grants from the President of the Russian Federation for state support of young Russian scientists – candidates and doctors of sciences.

23.11.2010