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Genetic engineering

Increasingly synthetic biology

An international group of scientists developing a young field of life sciences – xenobiology, has succeeded in creating a bacterium in whose DNA thymine is replaced by 5-chlorouracil, toxic to other organisms.

04.07.2011
Genetics

Epigenetic changes cause a "personality crisis" in cells

Even small changes in epigenetic markers that determine whether a cell belongs to a particular type can lead to severe disorders of the functioning of the body, including the development of age-related diseases.

04.07.2011
Your health

Instead of charging – a glass of red?

Resveratrol prevents the negative effect of hypokinesia during space flights and hypodynamia during a sedentary lifestyle. So red wine can be considered the "liquid" equivalent of exercise?

01.07.2011
Bioethics

Have you signed up as an organ donor?

In accordance with the new rules, every citizen of Germany will be interviewed on a mandatory basis about whether he agrees to become a donor after death.

01.07.2011
Grants and competitions

Postgraduate study in Melbourne

The program is open to both Australian and international students specializing in materials sciences, including chemical and biomolecular engineering, microbiology, medicine, immunology and related disciplines.

01.07.2011
New in Gerontology

Protect your brain from stress!

Experts have long suspected the existence of a relationship between chronic stress and neurodegenerative diseases, but its molecular mechanisms remained a mystery. One of these mechanisms has recently been discovered.

01.07.2011
Biomedicine

The pancreas is the source of diabetes medication

Gamma-aminobutyric acid, synthesized by beta cells of the pancreas, not only prevents the development of type 1 diabetes, but also cures this disease in mice. The next step is clinical research, on volunteers.

30.06.2011
New in Gerontology

Rapamycin rejuvenates human cells

Rapamycin not only increases the lifespan of mice, but also reverses the premature aging of human cells with progeria – unfortunately, so far only in vitro.

30.06.2011
Cellular technologies

Liver transplantation in parts

In a few years, it will be possible to get an answer to the main question: can cell therapy cure a sick child once and for all, or is it only able to delay liver transplantation, which sooner or later will become inevitable?

30.06.2011
Biomedicine

Genome Editors

Scientists have cured hemophilia (so far – in mice) using the genome editing method – a new step in the development of gene therapy.

29.06.2011
Your health

Myocardial caries

Streptococcus mutans bacteria, the same "carious monsters" that form plaque, can lead to endocarditis – inflammation of the inner lining of the heart muscle when they enter the blood.

29.06.2011
Exhibitions and conferences

What is happening in the pharmaceutical market?

Autumn session of the leaders of the pharmaceutical business "What is happening in the pharmaceutical market?" (September 26-27, 2011, Moscow, Swissotel Krasnye Kholmy Congress Center).

29.06.2011
Your health

Shall we have a drink, good friend?

Members of the International Forum for the Study of Alcohol believe that healthy elderly people who are consciously suitable for the use of alcoholic beverages should not deny themselves this pleasure.

28.06.2011
Genetics

The Devil's Genome

The authors of the new work have shown that the genetic diversity of devils is extremely low – it is about 20 percent of the level of genetic diversity of humans.

28.06.2011
Other life sciences

Computer microbes

According to researchers, it may be worth saying that we are dealing with a completely new type of "information infection".

28.06.2011