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Biomedicine

Gene therapy against depression

Perhaps the time is not far off when gene therapy will become a remedy for depression. In any case, the results of recent research in this area set up specialists in an optimistic mood.

26.10.2010
Various

How to save on pensioners

Nowadays, the concept of retirement age at 60 or 65 is becoming irrelevant. In the future, more and more elderly people will want to work longer or start professional retraining after the age of 60.

22.10.2010
Healthy skepticism

Genetically modified water, fresh Aral…

This morning, the news about genetically modified water and other pearls of the correspondent of Radio Russia and the experts of the Clean Water program, accompanied by healthy laughter, flew around the Runet.

21.10.2010
Other life sciences

Hit the tumor on the FSH receptor?

The follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) receptor can be used in the diagnosis and treatment of many types of cancers.

21.10.2010
Various

Pulp fiction, in Nature

In September, the world leader of scientific periodicals, the journal Nature, published an article about the identification of the fact of deliberate sabotage in a small American scientific laboratory.

21.10.2010
Prolonging youth

So that the memory becomes like a young one

The drug, selectively suppressing the synthesis of one of the glucocorticoids only in brain cells, rejuvenated the brains of decrepit (two-year-old) mice so that in the spatial memory test they were not inferior to young healthy animals.

20.10.2010
Biomedicine

Gene therapy of atherosclerosis is almost not fiction

In mice with an atherosclerosis model, after the introduction of a virus with a healthy copy of the gene, the number of cholesterol plaques in the vessels turned out to be ten times less than in animals of the control group. Maybe people with high cholesterol will soon be treated with gene therapy?

20.10.2010
Other life sciences

Roger Kornberg – about DNA, RNA, transcription and much more

The winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2006) "for the study of the molecular foundations of eukaryotic transcription" – the process of transferring information from DNA to RNA in all nuclear organisms – gave a lecture at Moscow State University.

19.10.2010
Healthy skepticism

Typos of genitals

The reservation of the French Interior Minister Brice Ortefe about "genital prints" has become a new Internet sensation. But where does he and other French ministers go before our Viktor Stepanovich!

19.10.2010
Biomedicine

In Vitro fertilization: only healthy eggs!

Two women who took part in the first study of a genetic test that allows culling eggs with chromosomal abnormalities before IVF, successfully gave birth to healthy children.

19.10.2010
Biomedicine

Trojan Pill: Continued

For the targeted administration of drugs into the right organ and even inside the cell, scientists have created "Trojan pills" – microscopic capsules made of the thinnest layers of polymers with different properties.

18.10.2010
Note to the businessman

Russian venture capitalist from Palo Alto

Venture capitalists are interested in markets with good development potential. "Now is the time to think about Russia," says Evgeny Zaitsev, a member of the American delegation at the Global Innovation Partnership Forum, one of the partners of the Helix Ventures venture fund.

18.10.2010
Other life sciences

The PGC-1 gene is the alpha switch of Parkinson's disease?

The cause of parkinsonism may be a malfunction of 10 genes whose activity is controlled by one "switch" – the PGC-1-alpha gene. Drugs to activate this gene are used in diabetes – perhaps they will help parkinsonics.

14.10.2010
Exhibitions and conferences

Virtual school for biotechnologists of the XXI century

The International Scientific School "Main directions of industrial and food biotechnology of the XXI century: analysis and forecasts" is conducted using modern multimedia systems online.

14.10.2010
Healthy skepticism

Once again about the futility of genetic testing

This time, a group of geneticists from the University of Queensland recommends not to overestimate the importance of genetic tests, which can rarely tell patients any useful information.

14.10.2010
Cellular technologies

ESK against spinal cord injury: details

For the first time in the history of official medicine, American doctors and biologists have transplanted embryonic stem cells to a person with a spinal injury.

14.10.2010
Other life sciences

RGS14 – "The Homer Simpson gene"

If the RGS14 gene only slows down the brain, then why does it exist in both mice and humans? Won't genetic engineering help in the future to get rid of this brake, giving the opportunity, for example, to memorize the text by heart after the first reading?

13.10.2010