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Genetic engineering

Gene therapy helps to fight the consequences of a heart attack

The enzyme telomerase eliminates the damage caused to the cell by aging, and is successfully used to increase the lifespan of mice. It has recently been established that telomerase can also be used for the treatment of myocardial infarction.

22.12.2014
New in Gerontology

mtDNA for early prediction of morbidity and mortality risk

The content of mitochondrial DNA in the blood can be a useful prognostic factor for assessing the overall risk of deterioration of health and death from any cause 10-15 years before the onset of symptoms.

22.12.2014
Biomedicine

Correspondence courses on "-omics" and personalized medicine

The first educational project for doctors, consisting of an online magazine "Personalized Medicine" and a training course of online lectures "Genomic and postgenomic technologies in medicine", is being launched in Russia.

22.12.2014
Cellular technologies

Parthenogenetic ESCs have defended their rights

The European Court recognized that an embryo obtained by parthenogenetic (without fertilization) activation of an oocyte, obviously unable to develop into a human being, cannot be considered a human embryo.

22.12.2014
Prolonging youth

Is ibuprofen able to prolong life?

The popular anti-inflammatory drug ibuprofen is able to increase the life expectancy of a number of model organisms. However, from fruit flies to humans is a huge distance…

22.12.2014
Other life sciences

A cyber hand with ten degrees of freedom

The latest version of the system has learned to recognize three new patterns of behavior: stretching fingers, scooping and clamping. The developers of the technology assure that such a wide range of movements has been achieved for the first time.

19.12.2014
Controversial

The purpose of our life is the well–being of our microflora?

By "knocking out" aging individuals, the microflora (at least in part) created the demographic structure of Homo sapiens optimal for its own survival. But if earlier microbes killed old people, now, thanks to the achievements of civilization, they only reduce their quality of life.

19.12.2014
Various

Forget about STAP cells

Riken University officially confirmed the information about the termination of attempts to prove the existence of STAP cells, because the author of the research was unable to recreate them during a specially arranged experiment.

19.12.2014
Innovative Russia

AI-diagnostician: the first in Russia, the second in the world

A similar system – IBM Watson – operates in America and is a supercomputer equipped with a question-and-answer system. Novosibirsk Aimedica became the first Russian and the second in the world development for the use of artificial intelligence in medicine.

18.12.2014
Various

Optimistic statistics of life expectancy growth

The average life expectancy in the world increased from 65.3 years in 1990 to 71.5 years in 2013. If this trend continues, then by 2030 the average life expectancy of women will reach 85.3 years, and men 78 years.

18.12.2014
Various

Robodoctor – almost like a real one, only without hands

Patients of the St. Petersburg clinic of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are still surprised when a robot appears on the rounds instead of a doctor. But they already communicate with him without distrust, "as if with a professor whose hands are hidden in his pockets."

18.12.2014
Theories of aging

Alexey Moskalev – how to overcome aging

What should a person take from a naked digger to live 100 years, and what role genes play in longevity, says Alexey Moskalev, Doctor of Biological Sciences, head of the Department. Laboratory of Molecular Radiobiology and Gerontology of the Institute of Biology of Komi NC UrO RAS.

17.12.2014
Genetics

Hooligans are born first, and then become?

Scientists from Quebec have studied the genetic predisposition to antisocial behavior. It turned out that it is due to heredity and the influence of the environment.

17.12.2014