Genetics

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Genetics

Disassemble the mouse into genes

The project participants intend to grow generations of mice with "switched off" or missing genes in order to establish how these genome changes affect the physiological and behavioral characteristics of animals.

27.05.2010
Genetics

We are all a bit Neanderthal

The results of the rough decoding of the Neanderthal nuclear genome and its comparison with the genomes of modern Europeans, Asians, Papuans and Africans confirmed the version about the crossing of Neanderthals with ancient Europeans.

11.05.2010
Genetics

Features of the national genome

Articles on decoding human genomes are published with pleasure by leading scientific journals. The staff of the Kurchatov Institute posted a brief report on the work in the newly created Russian scientific journal Acta Naturae.

19.04.2010
Genetics

Different diseases – from the same gene complex?

Disorders of the activity of the same genes are to blame for the development of diabetes, atherosclerosis, heart disease, cancer and other diseases. This indicates the possibility of using drugs used in the treatment of other diseases in cancer therapy.

16.04.2010
Genetics

Diseases are growing by leaps and bounds

Biologists from the University of Texas have published a review of studies on the nature of various human diseases on model organisms – not only on the already familiar transgenic mice, but also on frogs, plants and even yeast.

08.04.2010
Genetics

The human genome: ten years later

Ten years after receiving the first results of complete sequencing of the human genome, researchers should make no less effort to apply the knowledge gained in clinical practice.

06.04.2010
Genetics

Why do we need to decode the genome?

DNA diagnostics based on the complete decoding of the human genome will become available in practical healthcare, if not in our lifetime, then in the lifetime of our children. But is it necessary for an ordinary person to decode his genome and why?

05.04.2010
Genetics

Cell division: light, motor, genes, more genes...

The authors suppressed the expression of individual genes and observed how this would affect the process of cell division. They registered more than 19 million divisions, created about 190,000 video files and identified almost 600 genes that affect the process of mitosis.

02.04.2010
Genetics

The individuality of a person: not just genes

Non-coding sections of DNA control the activity of genes and play an equally important role in determining such individual characteristics as a person's appearance, his development and even predisposition to certain diseases.

22.03.2010
Genetics

Analgesic gene

The replacement of one nucleotide in the SCN9A gene makes the carrier of such a variant of the gene absolutely insensitive to pain. Perhaps this discovery will create the perfect analgesic.

11.03.2010
Genetics

Poverty, stress, death... and genes

The risk of death from a heart attack or stroke 10-12 years after severe stressful situations is maximal in carriers of the most frequent variant of the interleukin-6 gene. Chronic stresses have a weaker effect on the health of people with rarer variants of this gene.

26.02.2010
Genetics

Treacherous genes

Hundreds of human genes are involved in the development of viruses; inactivation of each of them noticeably slows down or stops the infection altogether. This information will be used to create new generations of antiviral drugs – inhibitors of certain human proteins.

16.02.2010
Genetics

Are genes also to blame for stuttering?

In many cases, stuttering is blamed on psychological problems of a person, but research results indicate that the reason lies in the genes.

15.02.2010
Genetics

Premenstrual syndrome gene

A common variant of the BDNF gene appears to be involved in the development of a dysphoric disorder known as premenstrual syndrome (PMS).

12.02.2010