Articles

Note to the businessman

Early diagnosis of cancer: only 12 million rubles are needed for revision

The new method of non–invasive breast cancer diagnosis allows detecting the disease at an early stage with an accuracy of up to 95% - 30% higher than that of existing methods. You can start production in a year and a half.

14.01.2011

Innovative Russia

We will exceed the state plan for innovation!

The positive of the program "Strategy of innovative development of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2020" is off the scale so much that it becomes creepy from our near innovative future.

13.01.2011

Biomedicine

Personal exomics

The method of sequencing not the entire genome of a patient, but only exons – sections of DNA encoding sequences of amino acids in proteins – has recently entered clinical practice, but already demonstrates brilliant results.

13.01.2011

Various

2010 – the year of artificial organs

Specialists are increasingly mastering the manipulation of stem cells and using this experience for the reconstruction of tissues and organs. The successes in restoring vision are also impressive.

13.01.2011

Prolonging youth

Prolonging life: slow down mitochondria?

If we transfer the data obtained from worms to humans, then slowing down the mitochondria in a 30-year-old would add 15 years to his life.

13.01.2011

Various

What we can expect from medical research: Part 2

Development of new methods of immunotherapy, antibiotics, vaccines (including against malaria, AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis), study of brain mechanisms and methods of treatment of parkinsonism...

07.01.2011

Various

What we can expect from medical research: Part 1

In the next ten years, the main efforts of researchers will be focused on solving the mystery of aging, proteomics and the development of more effective treatments for cancer and obesity.

06.01.2011

Your health

Prostate hyperplasia: scalpel or pills?

Various pharmacological characteristics and mechanism of action of α1-adrenoblockers and 5α-reductase inhibitors serve as the basis for the use of combination therapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia.

28.12.2010

Biomedicine

Alzheimer's disease gene therapy: infect the hippocampus with the SVR gene

Increasing the level of CBP protein in the adult brain with the help of gene therapy, a viral vector carrying the SVR gene, can be an effective therapeutic approach not only for Alzheimer's disease, but also for other disorders of brain functions

28.12.2010

Genetic engineering

A genetically modified future

Genetically modified plants are delicious, healthy, nutritious, safe... and inevitably.

28.12.2010

Genetic engineering

Bioplastics from waste

A project has been developed for the commercial production of bioplastics from waste wood, paper, etc. with the help of microorganisms.

28.12.2010

Various

What is the 2050 meeting eaten with?

How will our food industry change in forty years? What of the delicious and healthy will our descendants get?

28.12.2010

Other life sciences

Breast cancer: another target?

The P-Rex1 protein is overexpressed in many cancer cell lines and may be the next target after ErbB receptors for the development of new drugs for the treatment of breast cancer.

27.12.2010

New in Gerontology

Rapamycin target and aging: new data

Scientists have linked the hyperactivity of the mechanistic target of rapamycin – the mTORC1 cellular pathway – with a decrease in ketone production, which is a physiological marker of aging in mice.

24.12.2010

Cellular technologies

Tissue-engineered trachea transplantation: now in Russia

For the first time in Russia, a trachea was transplanted to a patient, "assembled" from a donor "frame" and her own cells, from which all tissues will subsequently grow.

24.12.2010

Various

Russian biotechnology represented by one of the...

Interview with Dmitry Morozov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the biotech company "BIOCAD".

24.12.2010

Your health

Placebo without cheating

Even if you mark the medications given to patients as "placebo" (with a detailed explanation of what it is), the pills will still have a significant effect.

24.12.2010

Exhibitions and conferences

Facial rejuvenation: aesthetic surgery, cosmetology, cellular technologies

International Symposium "Aesthetic Surgery and Cosmetology in Facial and Periorbital rejuvenation" and seminar "Cellular Technologies in Plastic and Reconstructive surgery" (Moscow, February 3-5, 2011).

24.12.2010

Genetics

We are not only a little Neanderthals, but also a little Denisovans

Melanesians inhabiting the islands to the northeast of Australia received 4-6% of their genes from Denisovans. If we consider that the Neanderthals also left a trace in the genomes of modern humans, the total contribution of the "cousins" will be about 8%.

23.12.2010

Various

Scientific results of the decade: life sciences rulezzz!

In a selection of the ten most significant trends, ideas and technological trends that have emerged over the past ten years, according to the journal Science, exactly half relate to the life sciences.

23.12.2010