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Hot spots of modern gerontology

The increase in life expectancy and the aging of the population of developed countries have increased interest in gerontology, and above all, in the study of the primary mechanisms of aging of organisms and populations, as well as factors determining life expectancy.

454-sequencing (high-performance DNA pyrosequencing)

A new generation of DNA sequencing technologies, which allows the reading of genetic texts with unprecedented speed and productivity, has found wide application in biomedical research and has become a prerequisite for impressive scientific achievements.

Genetically motivated Champions

Today it has already been proven that champion athletes have unique qualities, which are determined, among other things, by their genotype. Scientists are trying to find out what factors their abilities depend on and whether it is possible to predict the achievement of high sports results by a particular person.

EurasiaBio-2008

The First International Congress "EurasiaBio-2008" will be held in Moscow on April 24-25, 2008.

A couple of successful IPOs - and we will have a venture boom

To date, none of the major league venture investors are looking at Russia seriously enough. But if there are a couple, three successful IPOs tomorrow, then the boom will begin just as it began in Israel or Ireland.

The choice between life and death

The concept of phenoptosis makes us look at the problem of aging in a different way. What if this is the way nature forces us to leave, making room for the young? What if this slow extinction, as well as the apoptosis program, is embedded in the form of a genetic program in our genome, and its main biological meaning is the acceleration of evolution? These questions allowed us to formulate a theory of programmed aging as an instrument of evolution.

Leave the yoghurts alone! The patients didn't die from them!

It is highly likely that probiotics became the cause of death of the patients participating in the clinical trial," the Utrecht University Clinic said in a press release, "but yoghurts have nothing to do with it.

Inhumane vivisection

Students of the Timiryazev Academy and a number of other Russian universities will no longer dissect animals. Inhumane vivisection was replaced by videotapes and computer programs.

Distributed computing for personalized Medicine

To carry out work within the framework of a joint project on the development of personalized medicine, which received a $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health last October, scientists use tissue microchips, pattern recognition algorithms and network supercomputer computing.

Award and medal for the best research work on bionanotechnology

Mice in which two genes controlling the synthesis of type 1 interferons were knocked out became virtually invulnerable to viral infections dangerous to ordinary rodents.

II Scientific and Practical Conference "Palliative medicine: yesterday, today, tomorrow"

Tomorrow came yesterday

Humanity has come to a turning point in its history. It will either find a way to survive in a world that will be changed by global warming and the robotoom, or it will plunge into the era of obscurantism, says English futurist James Martin.

Dancing from the kidney

Any donor kidney received from a deceased person has a passport. The kidney enters a medical institution where it will be used for transplantation, with a passport containing all the data about it.

Mouse Alzheimer's under the microscope: day by day

Of course, the neurophysiology of mice differs from that of humans, so it's too early to draw final conclusions. Nevertheless, the work of Professor Hyman and his collaborators strongly supported the hypothesis of the beta-amyloid nature of Alzheimer's disease.

The IntelliDrug tooth dispenses medications in the mouth

The undoubted advantage of the invention is that you do not need to take pills at all. Medications enter the body by themselves, and in most cases a person does not even notice it. According to the creators, the implant does not prevent a person from talking or eating.

The hidden threat of silicone charms

Today, silicone body parts will not surprise anyone, every year the number of people who want to add volume due to silicone is only increasing, and this is despite the fact that researchers continue to find new flaws in such implants.

It takes only half a billion rubles to breed a herd of transgenic goats

This is almost 2 times more than spent on the first stage of the program. This is due to the fact that the second stage provides for higher costs for the construction of farms for the maintenance of transgenic herds, the creation of industrial herds of animals themselves – producers of human medicinal proteins, the development of technologies for the isolation of human proteins from animal milk and the creation of medicinal, food and perfumes with the organization of their pilot production.

How venture investors evaluate startups

This article is intended more for venture investors, but it is also useful for startups to find out how venture investors evaluate startups when investing in them at an early stage.

To live to be a hundred years old is easier than you thought

The contribution of genes to life expectancy is only 25%, and the chances of changing the second hundred are not only in relatively healthy people, but also in patients with various chronic diseases.

Hopes and promises of stem cells

One of the most sensational scientific achievements of the outgoing year was the development of methods for genetic reprogramming of human somatic cells, converting them into full-fledged analogues of embryonic stem cells.