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Genetic engineering

The first living organism with three pairs of DNA bases

For the first time, scientists were able to obtain a culture of living cells with six "letters" of DNA instead of four. Cells with a six-letter genetic code function in the same way as normal ones.

08.05.2014
Exhibitions and conferences

International Conference FiztehBio – 2014

The IV annual International Scientific and Practical conference of FIZTECHBIO will be held on May 29-30, 2014 at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Moscow Region, Dolgoprudny, Institutsky Lane, 9).

08.05.2014
Exhibitions and conferences

Therapy of the future

The Hypercube of the Skolkovo Innovation Center will host the international conference "Therapy of the Future" on May 26-28, 2014.

07.05.2014
Prolonging youth

Experimental drug increases the lifespan of mice

Researchers have identified a protein that plays a key role in the process of physiological aging, and have developed an experimental drug that suppresses the activity of this protein.

07.05.2014
Various

STAP cells remain in question

A special committee of the RIKEN Institute investigating the scandal around stem STAP cells sees no reason to re-examine "acid cells".

07.05.2014
Biomedicine

HIV with soy sauce

Specialists of a Japanese company in search of a flavor enhancer for soy sauces accidentally discovered a molecule that suppresses HIV replication. We hope that it is not added to sauces – the antiretroviral drug will certainly have a lot of side effects. And EFdA tests for efficiency and safety have already begun.

07.05.2014
Your health

Vibrating capsule will help with constipation

The capsule for oral use, vibrating when moving through the digestive tract, has shown promising results as a non-pharmacological agent for the treatment of chronic constipation.

06.05.2014
Other life sciences

Prostate cancer sniffs electronic nose

The "electronic nose", which analyzes a mixture of gas molecules evaporating from a urine sample, makes it possible to detect prostate cancer at an early stage. In addition, it is able to distinguish cancer from benign prostatic hyperplasia.

06.05.2014
Note to the businessman

A miracle cure

Shares of the biotech company Pharmacyclics have risen forty times in six years. Will she continue to be successful?

06.05.2014
Prolonging youth

Blood as a source of youth: new data

Two independent groups of researchers have once again demonstrated the rejuvenating effect of blood components of young mice on the state of the brain and muscle tissue of old animals.

06.05.2014
Other life sciences

Do you want to lose weight? Eat more fiber!

Acetic acid, one of the breakdown products of dietary fiber in the intestine, directly affects the hypothalamus, which is known to regulate hunger and eating behavior.

05.05.2014
Biomedicine

Iron nerves

For the first time in the history of science, a group of Chinese biomedical scientists used a liquid metal alloy to fuse and restore the functionality of the severed nerve tissues of experimental animals.

05.05.2014
Various

The Public Chamber talked about the prevention of aging

The round table "Prevention of aging" was held in the Public Chamber of Russia. Its participants noted that the limit of human life is reduced due to various harmful factors, including the lack of prevention of aging.

05.05.2014
Various

Learn to count!

According to VTsIOM, about 78% of Russian citizens feel happy. And that this figure is radically at odds with the data of 2012, obtained by the New Economics Foundation, and 2013, from the World Happiness Report, so VTsIOM is probably more objective :)

30.04.2014
Cloning

Cloned beta cells of a diabetic patient

Having transplanted genetic material from skin cells of a patient with type I diabetes into someone else's egg, scientists obtained a culture of embryonic cells, which were then "re-educated" into insulin cells of the pancreas.

30.04.2014
Biomedicine

Pancreatic cancer drug ready for clinical trials

Pancreatic cancer cells develop resistance to the traditionally used doxorubicin especially quickly. A drug that suppresses the synthesis of proteins that provide this resistance significantly increases the effect of treatment.

30.04.2014