Articles

Found results: 16306

Other life sciences

Alzheimer's Disease Prevention Experiment

American scientists have announced the launch of a project during which they will analyze the effect of an experimental drug against Alzheimer's disease with the participation of people at risk, but without symptoms of the disease.

27.05.2015
Biotechnologies - into life

Unique Russian development will be sold in the USA

The Russian company Semiotic and GlycoTech Corporation (USA) have signed a 5–year agreement on the distribution in North America of a unique Russian development - a research carbohydrate microchip (glycochip) for the quantitative determination of glycan-binding proteins.

27.05.2015
Biomedicine

Viral immunotherapy against melanoma

Phase III clinical trials have confirmed the ability of the modified herpes virus to effectively destroy the cells of the most dangerous skin cancer.

27.05.2015
Cellular technologies

Hair cells "from a test tube"

Bioengineers from the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Lisbon and University College London have developed a method by which it is possible to grow hair cells from embryonic stem cells – cells that are located in the inner ear.

26.05.2015
Grants and competitions

Biotechnology management and bioeconomics

This summer, the Economics and Biology Faculties of Lomonosov Moscow State University are conducting a new set of inter–faculty master's programs - "Biotechnology Management" and "Bioengineering, Biotechnology and Bioeconomics".

26.05.2015
Other life sciences

Doshirak chromosomes

The Lomonosov supercomputer helped researchers from Moscow State University solve one of the main mysteries of molecular biology and show the benefits of DNA stacking according to the "doshirak" principle.

25.05.2015
Other life sciences

Nematodes do not lose their memory after freezing

The use of cryonic technologies does not destroy the long-term memory of the simplest multicellular organisms. Nematode worms Caenorhabditis elegans were used as experimental subjects.

25.05.2015
Biomedicine

Cancer vaccines

Anti–cancer vaccines are a good alternative to traditional treatments that lead to serious side effects and are often useless in the later stages of the disease.

25.05.2015
Nanotechnology

Standards for nanotechnologists

The National Council for Professional Qualifications under the President of the Russian Federation has approved 10 professional standards for the nanoindustry.

25.05.2015
Genetic engineering

Yeast with human genes

Geneticists have successfully transplanted about two hundred human genes into yeast DNA, replacing fragments of the fungus genome similar in their functions, which once again confirmed the common evolutionary origin of all living beings on Earth.

22.05.2015
Theories of aging

Scientists have corrected the defect underlying premature aging

Using an HTRA3 inhibitor – the "culprit" of a rare hereditary disease or an antioxidant neutralizing free radicals, the researchers managed to suppress the activity of the HTRA3 enzyme in the cells of patients with Coccain syndrome to a normal level.

22.05.2015
Cellular technologies

In some cases, size still matters

Implants with beta cells 1.5 millimeters in size are less likely to provoke the formation of scar tissue than implants with a diameter of about 0.5 mm, work 6 times longer and independently respond to changes in glucose levels.

22.05.2015
Other life sciences

GDF-11 out of trust

Another molecular "rejuvenating apple" is in no hurry to meet expectations – the same protein, tissue differentiation factor 11 (GDF-11), in different experiments can both promote muscle regeneration and suppress it.

22.05.2015
Other life sciences

A video about the work of killers

A unique video demonstrates the process of destroying tumor cells by specialized immune cells known as T-killers, or cytotoxic T-lymphocytes.

22.05.2015