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Biomedicine

A new vaccine against nicotine addiction

One dose of a new gene therapy vaccine for life relieves mice of nicotine addiction, turning their liver into a factory for the production of antibodies against nicotine.

29.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Huntington's disease can be studied "in vitro"

The researchers turned induced pluripotent stem cells into neurons showing signs of Huntington's disease. These cells can be used to test therapies for this currently incurable disease.

28.06.2012
Genetics

The eleventh "parkinsonism gene"

An international group of geneticists and neurologists, as a result of a long-term large-scale study, managed to isolate the last of the mutated genes that provoke the development of Parkinson's disease.

28.06.2012
Note to the businessman

Top 10 pharmaceutical companies in terms of R&D expenses

In 2011, the costs of creating new drugs of the top 10 global pharmaceutical companies in terms of R&D costs amounted to more than $ 70 billion. US$, which is slightly higher than the same indicator in 2010.

28.06.2012
Exhibitions and conferences

RosBioTech-2012

VI International Exhibition "RosBioTech-2012" (7-9 November 2012, Moscow, Expocentre Fairgrounds).

28.06.2012
Various

Another diagnosis of Russian medicine

The healthcare industry of Russia took the second place in the corruption rating of the Russian Federation. Law enforcement agencies are in the first place, education is in the third.

27.06.2012
Genetic engineering

Genetically modified animals are illegal

Pigs with human disease genes are a much better model than rodents, but the FDA has not yet decided whether these animals can be used for experiments.

27.06.2012
Prolonging youth

To grow up to a hundred years ... of sexuality!

A person who regularly lives a sexual life will have sex to the grave. This is normal for a man, unless his health is damaged by alcohol, drugs, some diseases.

27.06.2012
Bioethics

The right to suicide

The European Court of Human Rights will consider two new cases concerning euthanasia and assisted suicide, Koch v. Germany and Alda Gross v. Sweden.

27.06.2012
Genetics

Reading Genomes

An abridged version of the lecture "What have we learned from the Neanderthal genome?" by M. Gelfand, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of the Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics of Moscow State University.

27.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Own kidney on a pig carcass

The researchers removed all the cells from the pig kidney, leaving its skeleton and circulatory system. In the future, the patient's own cells will be seeded into the frame.

26.06.2012
Your health

Cancer in Russia: the truth from the first hand

D.G.Zaridze, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Deputy. Director of the N.N.Blokhin Cancer Research Center, visiting professor at Oxford University: "Cancer mortality is declining in Russia, but there is no merit of healthcare in this."

26.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Almost a real liver "in vitro"

Japanese researchers forced pluripotent stem cells to form rudimentary liver tissue in vitro.

26.06.2012
Biomedicine

Two vaccines for cocaine addiction

Cornell University researchers have developed two vaccines that use different mechanisms to stimulate the production of antibodies that block cocaine molecules before they enter the brain.

26.06.2012
Prolonging youth

Blocking one protein slows down aging

Suppression of the synthesis of a single protein - the nuclear factor-Kappa-bi (NF-Kappa B) – allowed scientists to slow down the aging of mice.

26.06.2012
Genetics

Science on a pea

The exhibition "Science on a Pea" in the Darwin Museum is dedicated to the anniversaries of three remarkable scientists at once - the 190th anniversary of the birth of G. Mendel, the 140th anniversary of the birth of N.K.Koltsov and the 130th anniversary of the birth of M.P.Sadovnikova-Koltsova.

26.06.2012