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Other life sciences

Geography of the brain: details

In the USA, the Brain Activity Map project will be launched – a project to create a complete map of brain activity that will reveal the biological mechanisms of consciousness and the secrets of mental illness.

21.02.2013
Healthy skepticism

Cream with liposomes? Advertising is deceiving you again!

Liposomes included in cosmetic products are unable to penetrate deep into the skin: they are destroyed and release their contents either directly on the surface of the skin, or immediately after penetration under its surface.

20.02.2013
New in Gerontology

Blood, epigenetics and aging

As hematopoietic cells age, changes in the epigenome – the system that regulates gene expression – disrupt their work, which leads to a weakening of immunity, anemia and an increased risk of developing some malignant blood diseases.

20.02.2013
Genetics

Genome sequencing for dummies

Sequencing is a common name for methods that allow you to establish the sequence of nucleotides in a DNA molecule.

19.02.2013
Grants and competitions

Start-2013: Biotechnology

The Fund for Assistance to the Development of Small Forms of Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere announces the start of accepting applications for participation in the competition for small businesses under the Start-2013 program direction H5 (Biotechnology).

19.02.2013
Your health

If you have varicose veins

Unfortunately, varicose veins are not uncommon. Patients with lesions of the subcutaneous veins of the lower extremities need to remember the basic rules that will allow them to coexist relatively peacefully with the disease.

19.02.2013
Various

The Art of Science – 2013

The Art of Science 2013 Festival is organized for the sixth time by Park–Media with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

19.02.2013
Your health

Careful, calcium!

Prolonged intake of high doses of calcium contributes to an increase in mortality among women from a number of diseases, including diseases of the cardiovascular system.

18.02.2013
Biomedicine

Gene therapy of fractures

The healing of fractures and fractures of bones will be accelerated by a paste with synthetic nanoparticles based on calcium phosphate, in which two genes of growth factors that stimulate the formation of bone tissue and blood vessels are encapsulated.

18.02.2013
Other life sciences

See infrared light

Researchers from Duke University have developed a neuroimplant with which rats were able to perceive the infrared part of the spectrum.

18.02.2013
Other life sciences

Oligopeptides will help gene therapy

Scientists from Moscow State University together with foreign colleagues have created a substance that will be widely used in gene therapy: the EF-C peptide accelerates the transfer of a "therapeutic" gene from a genetically modified retroviral vector to human DNA.

18.02.2013
Other life sciences

The first electronic retina enters the US market

The FDA has approved the first artificial retina – an implantable device with some retinal functions that will help people who have lost their eyesight due to a genetic disease – retinitis pigmentosa.

18.02.2013
Nanotechnology

Ball Bomb for Ovarian Cancer

Nanoparticles filled with nanoliposomes with miRNAs that suppress the expression of one of the most important genes associated with the development of ovarian cancer reduce the mass of tumors by 83%.

15.02.2013
Prolonging youth

Will nitroglycerin slow down aging?

Nitric oxide, which is involved in many processes in the body, also "conducts" genes associated with protecting cells from stress and aging. Now the well-known nitroglycerin has become another potential geroprotector.

15.02.2013
Other life sciences

New system for early cancer diagnosis

Researchers from South Korea have developed a simple and non-invasive method for detecting cancer cells that can speed up the early diagnosis of malignant tumors.

15.02.2013
Other life sciences

Will non-coding RNAs help fight obesity?

American scientists have discovered ten non-coding RNAs, a decrease in the expression of which in adipocyte progenitor cells stops the process of adipose tissue formation.

14.02.2013
New in Gerontology

Aging: getting rid of prejudices

In the public consciousness, old age is associated only with decline and incapacity. The reviewed books, which have no analogues in Russian yet, are devoted to the liberation from such prejudices and social stigmata.

14.02.2013