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Genetic engineering

Gene therapy for the treatment of blindness

The results of testing on dogs indicate that a new method of gene therapy for retinal pigment degeneration in the near future may solve the problem of one of the main causes of blindness.

27.01.2012
Cellular technologies

Alzheimer's in vitro

Scientists have obtained neurons with Alzheimer's syndrome from skin cells of people suffering from this disease.

27.01.2012
Various

Economy and diseases: the prognosis is unfavorable

Increasingly, public organizations and governments regard the increase in the incidence of non-communicable pathology as a dangerous medical and social problem and one of the main threats to the growth of the world economy.

26.01.2012
Prolonging youth

Forever young and forever drunk

The main rules for prolonging youth with alcohol: take a little, but regularly, start from the first days of life, do not snack and ... be born a worm.

24.01.2012
Note to the businessman

Startups are expensive now

The average cost of launching an innovative startup in Russia in April-June 2011 was 53 million rubles.

24.01.2012
Genetics

Genes and intelligence

Intellectual abilities are at least 75% inherited. Dieter Zimmer, a well-known scientific journalist and long-time editor of the culture department of the newspaper Die Zeit, comes to this conclusion in his new book.

24.01.2012
Biotechnologies - into life

Artificial organs: Russian gasoline, Italian ideas

On the basis of the Kuban Medical University, Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini is deploying a laboratory of regenerative medicine. It is assumed that in two years in Krasnodar they will learn how to grow human organs.

23.01.2012
Biomedicine

Spinal cord injury: how to keep intact nerves

Perhaps in the near future in the arsenal of veterinarians, and subsequently doctors, there will be a means to minimize the consequences of spinal cord injury.

23.01.2012
Cellular technologies

Cord blood stem cells will cure sore knees

"Kartistem" – a drug from cord blood stem cells – promotes the regeneration of cartilage tissue and is used for various diseases of the knee joints, in particular, deforming osteoarthritis.

23.01.2012
Biomedicine

Sperm vaccine

There are cases when women develop allergic reactions to their partner's sperm. Perhaps this unpleasant phenomenon will help in the creation of a new means of contraception.

20.01.2012
Genetic engineering

Vodka is not made of sawdust

A bacterium capable of efficiently processing brown algae into biofuel – ethanol has been created. Some scientists have already called this work an engineering feat.

20.01.2012
Cellular technologies

Oligodendrocytes from umbilical cord blood

Bioengineers from the University of Central Florida have managed to turn stem cells from the umbilical cord into oligodendrocytes engaged in axon myelination, that is, isolating nerves in the brain and spinal cord.

20.01.2012
Grants and competitions

Leibniz-DAAD Research Fellowships

The joint grant program of the Association of Leibniz Institutes and DAAD offers candidates of sciences who have recently defended their dissertation the opportunity to participate in research in Germany.

19.01.2012
Various

The epidemic of fake medicines

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 25% of medicines consumed in emerging economies are counterfeit, and Russia is at the epicenter of this epidemic of falsification of medicines.

19.01.2012