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Genetic engineering

Chicken eggs will cure a serious hereditary disease

The protein sebelipase alpha contained in the eggs of GM chickens serves as an active component of the drug Kanuma, aimed at treating a rare metabolic disorder – Wolman's disease.

10.12.2015
Controversial

About eternal youth

Aubrey de Grey: My mission is to put all aspects of aging under the full control of medicine. So that people, no matter how long they live, feel mentally and physically how young adults feel.

10.12.2015
Genetics

Thanks to grandmothers for "longevity genes"

Grandparents turned out to be so important for the survival of the human race that special gene variants appeared that protect people from Alzheimer's disease and other age-related diseases.

09.12.2015
Other life sciences

New penises for veterans

Doctors have more than enough potential patients. According to the statistics of the US Department of Defense, from 2001 to 2013, during the fighting in Iran and Afghanistan, at least 1,367 people were injured, as a result of which they lost their penis.

09.12.2015
Controversial

George Church's sensational statement

At a conference dedicated to ethical and technological issues of genome editing, he expressed confidence that in five years modern advances in genetics will help reverse the process of human aging.

09.12.2015
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy restores immunity in severe congenital pathology

The new method of gene therapy makes it possible to update the immune system of children and young adults with an X-linked form of severe combined immunodeficiency – a hereditary disease that mainly affects male infants.

08.12.2015
Biotechnologies - into life

How to wake up silent genes?

About the key epigenetic mechanisms, the most interesting from the point of view of the prospects of drug intervention in their regulation.

08.12.2015
Other life sciences

Unreliable telomeres

Studies conducted by scientists at St. Petersburg State University have shown that telomeres are one of the most unstable sequences in the genome.

08.12.2015
Biomedicine

To victory over troubles

"Scientific foundations of the effectiveness and safety of medicines" – this is the topic of the regular session of the General Meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Our materials tell about the problems that are planned to be discussed at this forum.

08.12.2015
Genetic engineering

Editing human genes: take your time!

The participants of the summit of leading scientists from the UK, USA and China considered it premature to introduce technologies for editing the genes of a child before his birth.

08.12.2015
Prolonging youth

Epigenomics of longevity

A detailed study of the epigenome gives biologists the opportunity to get out of the fog of numerous theories of aging and more accurately understand the root causes of this phenomenon, as well as age-related diseases.

07.12.2015
Nanotechnology

Bomb the tumor

Liposomal nanobombs, which explode under the action of infrared radiation, make it possible to deliver RNA-based anticancer drugs to cancer cells.

07.12.2015
Genetics

Obesity caused epigenetic changes in sperm

Healthy men and obese patients have a large number of epigenetic differences in all body tissues, including sperm. The latter can directly lead to the transmission of the tendency to obesity to children.

07.12.2015
Theories of aging

Aging of cells and aging of the body

More and more data indicate that aging is not the result of a harmful program, but a consequence of excesses in the work of mechanisms that, with moderate activity, are beneficial.

04.12.2015