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Genetic engineering

Progeria: gene therapy gives hope

Gene therapy has significantly increased the life expectancy of mice with a progeria analogue. Clinical trials are next in line.

01.11.2011
Prolonging youth

Prolonging life without a low-calorie diet

Aging can be slowed down without limiting calorie intake. The key to slowing down the aging process is to maintain the activity of the Tsa 1 enzyme in cells.

01.11.2011
Other life sciences

Microbes age, microbes get fat…

Bacteria that were considered immortal are also aging. This happens due to asymmetric division, in which one of the daughter cells gets almost all the non-genetic damage accumulated during the life of the mother cell.

28.10.2011
Prolonging youth

Seven secrets of a long and healthy life

Following seven simple rules can increase a person's healthy life expectancy by 40-50 years. How to do it has finally ceased to be a secret!

26.10.2011
Genetics

First of all, check BDNF, and planes and girls – then…

With age, the number of points received by pilots during the aptitude test on the flight simulator gradually decreases. One of the common polymorphisms of the gene encoding brain neurotrophic factor (BDNF) accelerates this process by 3 times.

26.10.2011
Exhibitions and conferences

Regenerative medicine and quality longevity

On November 11-12, 2011, Nazarbayev University will host the First International Scientific Conference on Regenerative Medicine and Quality Longevity within the framework of the 20th anniversary of independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

25.10.2011
Genetics

Epigenetic imprints of childhood

The various conditions in which children from affluent and poor families grow up are "remembered" in their organisms at the epigenetic level for the rest of their lives – in the form of differences in DNA methylation.

25.10.2011
New in Gerontology

The immune profile predicts the state of health in old age

Differences in the state of the immune system will make it possible to identify people who have every chance of maintaining good health and a clear mind until old age, as well as those who need timely prevention of age-related diseases.

25.10.2011
Nanotechnology

RUSNANOTECH 2011 will open tomorrow

This year, the main topic of the Forum will be the demand for innovation. Its participants will discuss the prospects of using nanotechnology in a wide range of industries – from construction and mechanical engineering to electronics and pharmaceuticals.

25.10.2011
Biomedicine

Get tested for the papilloma virus? Easy!

Two existing tests detect human papillomavirus with a sufficiently high sensitivity – 84 and 91%. In addition, all the women who tried the test for self-conducting called this method simple and easy.

25.10.2011
Exhibitions and conferences

Achievements of bionanoscopy

We invite you to take part in the sixth international conference "Modern Achievements of Bionanoscopy", which will be held in June 2012 at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

25.10.2011
Biomedicine

Testosterone and life expectancy: no link found

Testosterone levels do not affect life expectancy. Moreover, we do not know anything about whether it does not lead to premature death itself if you start taking it in the hope of improving the heart.

24.10.2011
Your health

Harmful "healthy" products

People allow themselves to eat unhealthy food, hoping to neutralize its harmful effects with the help of "healthy" products. But the belief in their enormous benefits can be not just useless, but also dangerous to health.

21.10.2011
Grants and competitions

NBIK-T Competition

The competition accepts research, design and abstract works of schoolchildren devoted to the issues of nano-, bio-, info-, cognitive sciences and technologies.

21.10.2011
Note to the businessman

Rating of investors in R&D: pharmacologists are in the top

The ranking of the 50 largest investors in R&D includes 15 European companies, 17 American and 13 Japanese. The top 5 included 2 pharmaceutical companies: Roche (Switzerland) and Pfizer (USA). In 14th place is the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi.

21.10.2011
Innovative Russia

The Mysterious Russian Pharmaceutical Industry

Russia has a huge innovative potential, good scientific traditions, and a clear understanding by the country's leadership of the need to modernize pharmaceutical enterprises... but investments in the Russian pharmaceutical market account for less than 1% of the global total.

20.10.2011
Cellular technologies

Stem cell research is a God–pleasing matter

The American company NeoStem has signed an unprecedented contract in the field of research of stem cells obtained from adults. The Catholic Church became its partner.

20.10.2011