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Grants and competitions

Bortnik Foundation and BMBF invite innovators

Grants are provided to small innovative enterprises in the amount of no more than 11.5 million rubles, subject to co-financing from own and (or) attracted funds of third parties in the amount of at least 50% of the grant amount.

05.02.2016
Other life sciences

Three whales of biotechnology

Senior Researcher at the Institute of Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexander Panchin – about what biotechnologies give us today and what to expect from biotechnologies in the very near future.

05.02.2016
Various

Why do follicles age

Geneticists from the USA and Japan have found the cause of baldness in men and some women in old age – it turned out that the stem cells of hair follicles turn into skin cells as a result of damage to their DNA.

05.02.2016
Genetic engineering

Editing the embryo genome

Konstantin Severinov, a specialist in the field of molecular biology, tells about what it is and why.

05.02.2016
Theories of aging

Overcome aging. Part I.

In this article we will talk about animals for which the insignificant (negligible) mode is shown or only assumed and a little bit about original approaches to achieving negligible aging in humans.

04.02.2016
Prolonging youth

Genetically modified centenarians

American researchers have increased the lifespan of mice by up to 35%, clearing their body of aged cells.

04.02.2016
Genetic engineering

Males without male genes

A group of scientists from the University of Hawaii, working with transgenic mice, obtained offspring from a line that does not have a Y chromosome. Moreover, the males of this line did not have a single gene that contains the Y chromosome, and the offspring from such males turned out to be quite viable and fertile.

04.02.2016
Various

Spine prosthetics in oncology

Recently, two operations were performed in St. Petersburg to remove five cervical vertebrae and replace them with an endoprosthesis. Prosthetics of metastasized cervical vertebrae on such a scale has not yet been performed.

04.02.2016
Genetics

Surnames and Y chromosomes in Spain

Spaniards with rare surnames are distant relatives, as are men in many other countries. But it also happens the other way around – for example, in Ireland.

03.02.2016
Genetics

APOBEC Double Agent

Mutations leading to the development of 18% of cancerous tumors occur during DNA replication under the action of APOBEC, an antiviral defense protein.

03.02.2016
Theories of aging

Aging trajectories

The dynamics of aging is traditionally described with the help of "survival curves", showing what proportion of individuals survive to a certain age. The nature of the dependence of mortality on age varies greatly among different organisms.

03.02.2016
Genetic engineering

Remember these letters

CRISPR/Cas9 technology is able to change the attitude of mankind to hundreds and thousands of currently incurable hereditary and severe acquired diseases, used in genetic engineering.

03.02.2016
Prolonging youth

Phytotherapeutic geroprotector

Scientists from Japan have found out that the folk drug rikkunsito, used for stomach pains, causes the body to produce the hunger hormone ghrelin, which, in turn, slows down aging by acting on the gene and protein SIRT1.

03.02.2016
Cellular technologies

Cells for craniofacial surgery

Stem cells that allow reconstructing the bones of the skull and facial bones can be isolated from cells with high activity of the Axin2 gene (approximately 1% of the total number of stem cells).

03.02.2016
Other life sciences

Mitochondria and neurodegenerative diseases

Scientists from the Gladstone Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases have demonstrated a link between mitochondrial damage, loss of ATP and neuronal dysfunction.

02.02.2016
Your health

Hold on to the steering wheel, not the crutch

Scientists suggest that the refusal to drive and the deterioration of health are mutually conditioned: health problems force you to give up driving, and the refusal to drive aggravates health problems.

02.02.2016
Healthy skepticism

Official people of Mikhail Kovalchuk

Kovalchuk warns: there is a real opportunity to intervene in the process of evolution and create a fundamentally new subspecies of Homo sapiens – a service person.

02.02.2016
Biotechnologies - into life

Agrobiotechnologies-2015

In the summer of 2015, the Skolkovo Foundation began to develop the direction of biotechnology in agriculture. The first results of the work were summed up in December – at the competition of the most promising projects.

02.02.2016
Other life sciences

Is papillomavirus the cause of breast cancer?

If the human papillomavirus is really capable of causing breast cancer, existing vaccines for the prevention of cervical cancer will protect against many of its cases.

01.02.2016