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Biomedicine

Trojan Pill: Continued

For the targeted administration of drugs into the right organ and even inside the cell, scientists have created "Trojan pills" – microscopic capsules made of the thinnest layers of polymers with different properties.

18.10.2010
Note to the businessman

Russian venture capitalist from Palo Alto

Venture capitalists are interested in markets with good development potential. "Now is the time to think about Russia," says Evgeny Zaitsev, a member of the American delegation at the Global Innovation Partnership Forum, one of the partners of the Helix Ventures venture fund.

18.10.2010
Other life sciences

The PGC-1 gene is the alpha switch of Parkinson's disease?

The cause of parkinsonism may be a malfunction of 10 genes whose activity is controlled by one "switch" – the PGC-1-alpha gene. Drugs to activate this gene are used in diabetes – perhaps they will help parkinsonics.

14.10.2010
Exhibitions and conferences

Virtual school for biotechnologists of the XXI century

The International Scientific School "Main directions of industrial and food biotechnology of the XXI century: analysis and forecasts" is conducted using modern multimedia systems online.

14.10.2010
Healthy skepticism

Once again about the futility of genetic testing

This time, a group of geneticists from the University of Queensland recommends not to overestimate the importance of genetic tests, which can rarely tell patients any useful information.

14.10.2010
Cellular technologies

ESK against spinal cord injury: details

For the first time in the history of official medicine, American doctors and biologists have transplanted embryonic stem cells to a person with a spinal injury.

14.10.2010
Other life sciences

RGS14 – "The Homer Simpson gene"

If the RGS14 gene only slows down the brain, then why does it exist in both mice and humans? Won't genetic engineering help in the future to get rid of this brake, giving the opportunity, for example, to memorize the text by heart after the first reading?

13.10.2010
Other life sciences

Cancer cells survive by self-eating

As previously thought, autophagy – the process of "self–digestion" of cells - plays an important role in protecting the body from the development of cancer, but sometimes cancer cells use autophagy to survive in conditions of lack of resources.

12.10.2010
Genetic engineering

Mitochondrial genome from a test tube

Researchers from the Craig Venter Institute were able to synthesize a mouse mitochondrial genome with a length of about 16,300 nucleotides "in vitro" in one step.

12.10.2010
Exhibitions and conferences

Molecular Diagnostics – 2010

On November 24-26, 2010, the VII All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference with international participation "Molecular Diagnostics – 2010" will be held in Moscow.

11.10.2010
Innovative Russia

Global Innovation Partnership

The International Forum "Global Innovation Partnership" opens in Moscow. A delegation of California businessmen and investors will visit Moscow and Kazan.

11.10.2010
Nanotechnology

Another subcutaneous glucose indicator

Researchers from the University of Tokyo group have developed long-lasting fluorescent biologically compatible microbuses that can continuously determine blood glucose and do not require external power sources.

11.10.2010
Cellular technologies

Adults, ageless

The creation of adult stem cell lines that do not age in culture overcomes a serious obstacle to regenerative medicine: the complexity of growing adult stem cells for clinical use.

07.10.2010
Healthy skepticism

Rejuvenation

Sensational discovery: you can rejuvenate and at the same time earn a lot of money! Or rather, on the contrary – to earn a lot of money, and at the same time to get younger!

07.10.2010
Various

Palladium Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 2010 for the development of palladium catalysis techniques that allow for the precise "stitching" of carbon atoms and the sitesing of substances approaching in their structure and properties to natural molecules.

07.10.2010
Other life sciences

Allergy to cancer

Scientists have deduced an amazing pattern: allergy sufferers rarely join the ranks of cancer patients. Is it a simple coincidence, or do the two ailments have much more in common than was commonly believed?

06.10.2010
Prolonging youth

A means to prolong life: only three amino acids

The life expectancy of mice taking the essential amino acids leucine, isoleucine and valine was 12% longer than the average. Such an addition to the diet can have a positive effect on people's life expectancy.

06.10.2010
New in Gerontology

Telomeres, histones and aging. And maybe rejuvenation…

The discovery of the connection between the shortening of telomeres and a decrease in the number of histones in the nucleus of cells as they age can be used to develop new methods of rejuvenation of an aging organism.

05.10.2010
Healthy skepticism

Russian scientists! Fight for the Nobel Prize!

The announcement of the Nobel laureates is now in full swing. The presentation of the IgNobelPrize, which in the Russian version is more often referred to as the "Nobel Prize", which took place the day before at Harvard, was also not ignored.

05.10.2010
Other life sciences

Nobel 2010: In vitro fertilization

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was awarded to Briton Robert Edwards for his work on in vitro fertilization (IVF)

05.10.2010