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Biomedicine

Personalized medicine in the postoperative ward

Canadian doctors were the first in the world to use genetic analysis to select the drugs necessary for patients directly during treatment after coronary artery surgery.

02.04.2012
Grants and competitions

Make a dissertation at the expense of the Schering Foundation!

The peculiarity of the scholarship program is that the foundation finances dissertation research in any country of the world. Additionally, transportation costs and participation in scientific conferences are funded.

02.04.2012
Prolonging youth

Rapamycin: prolonging life without side effects?

The "drug of youth" – rapamycin – disrupts the functioning of two protein complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2. To significantly prolong life, it is enough to suppress the work of only the first of the rapamycin targets.

02.04.2012
Various

Cyborg-diagnostician floats on the body

The length of the prototype of the biomechanical robot "Cyberplasm", which will someday be able to diagnose diseases while inside the human body, is less than 1 cm, but scientists hope to reduce its size to 1 mm or even less.

02.04.2012
Biomedicine

Pharmaceutical and biomedical biotechnologies

From March 20 to 22, 2012, a scientific and practical conference "Pharmaceutical and biomedical biotechnologies" was held in the Moscow Government building.

02.04.2012
Cellular technologies

Stem cells in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases (6)

The development of methods for the treatment of multiple sclerosis using stem cells goes in two main directions: the suppression of an autoimmune reaction that destroys the myelin sheaths of nerve fibers and the transplantation of myelin-producing nerve progenitor cells.

30.03.2012
Cellular technologies

Stem cells in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases (4)

For Parkinson's disease – the second most common neurodegenerative disease – there is only symptomatic treatment. A number of experiments have shown the ability of stem cells to significantly increase the number of preserved dopaminergic neurons.

30.03.2012
Cellular technologies

Stem cells in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases (3)

Existing drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease only allow you to stop the symptoms of the disease. The use of stem cells is one of the promising directions for the development of pathogenetic and etiotropic methods of treatment of this most common form of senile dementia.

30.03.2012
Cellular technologies

Stem cells in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases (2)

The treatment of neurodegenerative diseases is one of the potential areas of clinical application of stem cells. However, it is quite difficult to obtain nerve stem cells suitable for subsequent therapeutic use.

30.03.2012
Other life sciences

All cancer genes in one database

A publicly accessible database has been created that combines data on the cancer genome and suspected effective drugs.

29.03.2012
Note to the businessman

Europe develops biotech

The governments of European countries face an important task – to use the results of R&D in the creation of new biotech companies, goods and jobs, emphasized in the report prepared by Ernst & Young and EuropaBio.

29.03.2012
Other life sciences

Gut-on-a-chip

The researchers hope that "gut-on-a-chip" will become a convenient model for a better understanding of the causes and development of a number of intestinal diseases and will help develop new methods of their treatment.

28.03.2012
Genetics

The role of genetics and heredity in the development of cancer

Professor Larisa Akulenko, Head of the Department of Medical Genetics of RSMSU, tells about the mechanism of development of hereditary cancers, the possibilities of medicine in the fight against them and the latest genetic developments in this area.

28.03.2012
Nanotechnology

DNA sequencing: nanopore with motor

The DNA polymerase of phage phi29 works as a motor in this design, which ensures uniform and at the right speed dragging of DNA through the nanopore.

28.03.2012
Bioethics

Stem cells are unethical and non–catholic

The main reason for the cancellation of the congress was the participation of a large number of scientists working with embryonic stem cells. The Catholic Church considers such studies unethical.

27.03.2012
Cellular technologies

The brain on cotton wool

One of the areas for the study of which Swedish scientists plan to use nerve cells grown on nanocellulose is the destruction of synapses, which is one of the early signs of Alzheimer's disease.

27.03.2012