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Biotechnologies - into life

Analyze the genes of each tumor

The result of the joint work of the AstraZeneca biopharmaceutical company and the N.N.Petrov Research Institute of Oncology will be a project for the diagnosis of gene mutations in tumor samples, with the help of which it will be possible to more accurately select drugs for the treatment of a number of oncological diseases.

14.02.2013
Your health

Caries treatment without a drill

Soon, you will not need a drill to treat caries. The corresponding technology has been developed by European scientists and has already proven its effectiveness. However, experts also note the presence of small shortcomings in this technology.

13.02.2013
Genetic engineering

Diabetes gene therapy: tested on dogs

In dogs, as a result of a single gene therapy procedure, the symptoms of type 1 diabetes disappeared. Monitoring of the condition of the animals showed that in some cases the absence of symptoms lasted for four years.

13.02.2013
Other life sciences

Bacterial Computer

MIT engineers have designed molecular genetic circuits that allow not only to perform logical operations inside bacteria, but also to record the results in cellular DNA, which are transmitted to the next generations of microorganisms.

12.02.2013
Biomedicine

Tat-beclin 1 – the long-awaited panacea?

By triggering the autophagy mechanism, a synthetic peptide called tat-beclin-1 protects the body from malignant, infectious and neurodegenerative diseases, and also prevents aging.

11.02.2013
Your health

Better less, yes better

Increased intake of vitamin C increases the risk of urolithiasis by 1.92 times. The highest risk is for men taking more than 7 g of ascorbic acid per week.

08.02.2013
Other life sciences

It's not contagious

Some of the patients infected with mad cow disease in the 1980s due to the presence of prions in growth hormone also received pathological forms of proteins involved in the development of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. But none of them developed these diseases.

08.02.2013
Other life sciences

How chromosomes are protected from dangerous fusion

The TRF2 protein, which is part of the telomeres, prevents the fusion of chromosomes with each other using two independent mechanisms that suppress the activity of the intracellular DNA damage repair system.

07.02.2013
Various

The best young scientists in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree awarding five young scientists the Presidential Prize in Science and Innovation for 2012.

07.02.2013
Cellular technologies

You can fight fat with fat

Researchers have learned how to turn skeletal muscle stem cells into brown fat cells, which improves metabolism and prevents the development of obesity.

07.02.2013
Other life sciences

Cancer Treatment: not to destroy, but to age the tumor cells

The inclusion of a cellular aging program can unexpectedly suppress tumor development for a long time. Suppression of cell growth with the help of immunotherapy allows you to control the tumor without destroying its cells.

06.02.2013
Genetic engineering

Epidermis Growth Factor promotes bone marrow recovery

Hematopoietic cells of genetically modified mice, whose bone marrow is characterized by excessive synthesis of epidermal growth factor, protect donor mice from the harmful effects of radiation.

06.02.2013
Genetics

Life expectancy is affected by the number of copies of genes

By comparing a large number of DNA samples from children and elderly people, researchers identified genes whose copy number variation affects life expectancy by increasing or decreasing the risk of developing diseases.

06.02.2013
Your health

Cancer tests: necessary and useless

Many of the screening examinations for oncological diseases are not only useless for most people, but may have undesirable consequences.

05.02.2013