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Biomedicine

Stop Alzheimer's Disease

Scientists at the Salk Institute have synthesized a drug that prevents the progression of Alzheimer's disease. And Finnish researchers hope that within the next 3 years their method of early detection of this disease will be put into practice.

16.12.2011
Biomedicine

The fight against oncogenes: a way around

The oncogenic Myc protein has no binding sites with which compounds with medicinal properties could interact. American researchers have chosen a different approach – disabling not the oncogene itself, but its helper genes.

15.12.2011
Cellular technologies

All stem cells are in one bank

In 2012, the unified Russian blood stem cell donor bank will open – a computer database that takes into account typed cell samples from different sources.

15.12.2011
Grants and competitions

Students studying life sciences: Summer school in Lausanne

University students studying biology, physics, chemistry, bioengineering, computer disciplines and planning to specialize further in the "Life sciences" are invited to participate in the competition.

14.12.2011
Prolonging youth

Low-calorie diet, life extension and AMP-dependent kinase

In addition to the previously known mechanisms, the effect of prolonging life with a low-calorie diet is also due to the activation of AMP–dependent kinase, an enzyme that promotes the normal completion of cell division.

14.12.2011
Biomedicine

High-capacity cancer vaccine

American scientists have managed to create a vaccine that, thanks to the activation of all three components of the immune system, provokes a very powerful immune response and is able to reduce the tumor size by 80% in mice with cancer.

13.12.2011
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of Duchenne myodystrophy is safe

During phase I clinical trials of a chimeric virus to deliver a gene for one of the key muscle proteins to the cells of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, scientists found no side effects. To be continued...

13.12.2011
Various

The biggest scandal in pharmaceuticals

Over 33 years, more than 5 million patients have received an appointment for therapy with Mediator. As a result of taking the drug, up to 2 thousand patients died, and thousands more were hospitalized.

13.12.2011
Cloning

Don't wait for cloned mammoths

"If someone does this, I'll eat my hat. And I wonder why they did it," says Webb Miller, one of the participants in sequencing the genome of the woolly mammoth.

12.12.2011
Cellular technologies

Especially pure stem cells – every day!

Following the report on embryonic stem cells grown without animal products, another group of researchers reported on neurons derived from human fibroblasts reprogrammed into a pluripotent state.

09.12.2011
Other life sciences

A tablet for rejuvenation of neurons

Drugs that activate the synthesis of the neurotrophic factor of the brain or the receptors that bind to it restore the age–related decrease in synaptic plasticity - one of the important components of learning and memorization mechanisms.

09.12.2011
Cellular technologies

Embryonic cells of the highest grade

High-quality human embryonic cells, potentially suitable for clinical use, were obtained for the first time without the use of animal products.

09.12.2011
Grants and competitions

Nanolympics 2011/2012

V All-Russian Internet Olympiad of schoolchildren, students, postgraduates and young scientists in the field of nanosystems, nanomaterials and nanotechnology "Nanotechnology – a breakthrough into the Future"!

08.12.2011
Genetics

Ethnic genomics and personalized medicine

Report of the deputy . Director of the Research Institute of Medical Genetics SB RAMS, Head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor V.A. Stepanov.

08.12.2011
New in Gerontology

Why do eggs age so quickly?

All the efforts of eggs are spent on protecting DNA, and due to the fact that they do not particularly monitor their own condition, oocytes age much faster than somatic cells.

08.12.2011