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Cellular technologies

Cord blood instead of bone marrow

Umbilical cord blood immune cells destroy leukemia cells much more effectively than their adult counterparts.

09.02.2016
Bioethics

"The Macchiarini case": a new round of scandal

The management of the Swedish Karolinska Institute announced that the institution is ceasing cooperation with surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who for the past five years has carried out scandalous tracheal transplant operations in Russia and a number of other countries, which ended in the death of almost all patients.

09.02.2016
Theories of aging

Overcome aging. Part II.

Some burrowing ("underground") rodents belonging to the families Spalacidae (blind man) and Bathyergidae (Damar digger and naked digger) are famous for their long life for their weight category.

08.02.2016
Your health

Preventing cancer

About 45% of cancer cases are associated with preventable factors. Smoking, lack of physical activity, unhealthy diet, excess weight and alcohol increase the chance of tumor formation.

08.02.2016
Genetics

Early and late birds

Genetic analysis and survey data revealed 15 sections of the genome that strongly correlate with people's daily routine.

08.02.2016
Theories of aging

Speed up and slow down the time for the worm

Experiments with mutant worms living in different conditions have shown that the survival curve can lengthen or shorten depending on heredity and external factors, but its shape almost always remains unchanged.

08.02.2016
Grants and competitions

Critical mass of competencies

Head of the Competence Center: "The creation of the Competence Center is our feasible contribution to the development of new technologies. We have accumulated a critical mass of competencies and we want to develop further."

05.02.2016
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