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Biomedicine

Genetic Test Personalizes Heart Failure Therapy

The analysis of the variations of the two genes makes it possible to identify patients with congestive heart failure who respond positively to the beta-blocker bucindolol.

18.10.2012
Prolonging youth

The "fasting hormone" significantly increases life expectancy

Hyperproduction of the "fasting hormone" (fibroblast growth factor-21) increases the life expectancy of transgenic mice without affecting its quality. It remains only to eliminate the side effects: reduced bone density and female infertility.

18.10.2012
Innovative Russia

Velkam, May darling investor!

For Western venture investors, RusBase will become a universal interface for entering the Russian market, and it will help companies from Russia to find foreign investors.

17.10.2012
Various

A three million nanoprize

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Lukyanov will receive the Rusnanoprize Prize for the method of obtaining multicolored fluorescent proteins. But it's still a shame for the state: an American company became the winner of the award for the commercialization of its developments.

17.10.2012
Cellular technologies

Cell therapy in Neuroscience

The results of animal studies give great hope for the development of methods for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and injuries of the brain and spinal cord.

17.10.2012
Various

The Nobel Prize in Economics is also for biomedicine!

A side result of the work of economist Alvin Roth was an algorithm for selecting donors for kidney transplantation, with the help of which about 2,000 patients were saved from death over 10 years.

17.10.2012
Grants and competitions

EuroTransBio invites biotechnologists to the competition

The EuroTransBio project is designed to implement projects in the field of biotechnology with an exclusive focus on supporting small businesses and stimulating them for trans-European cooperation.

15.10.2012
Biomedicine

To restore aged muscles, block myostatin

Even patients with reduced muscle mass due to the suppression of the function of satellite cells are capable of some restoration of muscle tone with the help of drug therapy that blocks the activity of myostatin.

15.10.2012
Healthy skepticism

Stem confusion: detailed analysis

The hero of the next stem scandal gave a press conference. At the same time, he changed his testimony, dodged and was repeatedly convicted of lying and falsification. And once in such cases, the Japanese simply did hara-kiri...

15.10.2012