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Prolonging youth

A pill for old age: in dreams or in development?

If you believe what the director of the New York Institute for the Study of Aging says in a TV interview, scientists plan to develop a "super pill" that will allow any of us to live up to a hundred years, in three years.

04.02.2010
Grants and competitions

Competition of journalists "Biotechnology in Russia"

The competition is held by the Society of Biotechnologists of Russia with the support of the State Duma, the Union of Enterprises of the Biotechnology industry, JSC "Biotechnology", the Union of Journalists of Russia, the Club of Scientific Journalists.

04.02.2010
Cellular technologies

Active and passive stem cells

A new model for regulating the activity of adult stem cells, assuming the coexistence of two subpopulations of such cells: active and dormant, may hold the key to understanding the drug resistance of cancer.

04.02.2010
New in Gerontology

Senile insomnia? No, you're all right!

The process of normal aging is accompanied by a decrease in the duration and depth of sleep necessary to ensure daytime wakefulness. At the same time, healthy old people feel less sleepy during the day than young people.

03.02.2010
Exhibitions and conferences

Biotechnology and society

On 12.04.2010, the forum "Biotechnology and Society" will be held in Moscow within the framework of the Second International Congress "EurasiaBio".

03.02.2010
New in Gerontology

Rejuvenate with growth hormone? Thank you, no need!

A study of a unique population of Brazilian dwarfs has shown that growth hormone deficiency does not affect life expectancy. Unfortunately, these data are unlikely to reduce the number of offers to rejuvenate with injections of somatotropic hormone.

02.02.2010
Biomedicine

Citizens are alcoholics! Block the stress hormone!

Alcoholic rats voluntarily switched from heavy drinking to moderate drinking after a course of treatment with one of the corticoliberin blockers. Perhaps the suppression of this stress hormone will become one of the methods of treating alcoholism.

02.02.2010
Healthy skepticism

Group homeopathy

The monstrous amounts of homeopathic medicines taken by the participants of the action, named after the Avogadro number “10:23 Campaign”, did not harm their health. Will their show damage the reputation of homeopathy?

02.02.2010
Other life sciences

Neurons on a chip to test neurotoxicity

A new biochip for performing a test for the formation of a neural network provides the location of nerve cells in a strictly defined order, which will allow faster and more accurate testing of the neurotoxicity of various compounds.

01.02.2010
Prolonging youth

Rejuvenate the aging immune system?

It is possible that the periodic administration of a macrophage colony-stimulating factor to elderly people will ensure the maintenance of a population of tissue macrophages and increase the efficiency of the aging immune system.

01.02.2010
Genetic engineering

Biodiesel from sawdust

A new strain of E. coli produces high-quality diesel fuel and other valuable chemical compounds from untreated plant biomass.

01.02.2010
Prolonging youth

Young blood returns youth to the elderly

The blood of young mice contributes to the rejuvenation of the hematopoietic system of old animals. The mechanism of this phenomenon, as well as its impact on health and life expectancy are still unknown.

29.01.2010
Note to the businessman

Russian venture in full ambition

The strategy of the "Russian Venture Company" is ambitious. The key indicator is an increase in the volume of the venture market by 2020 to 60-300 billion rubles from the current 1.5–2 billion rubles.

28.01.2010
Biomedicine

Prostate cancer vaccine: Live a little longer

A vaccine has been developed that prolongs the life of prostate cancer patients by an average of eight months. Unfortunately, there is no talk about the destruction of neoplasms, but such a result is a significant step forward.

27.01.2010
Biomedicine

microRNAs: new technologies, new drugs

microRNA-based technologies are capable of revolutionizing everything related to the development of medicines: from the identification of new targets to the creation of new ways of therapeutic effects.

27.01.2010
Nanotechnology

Are perturbations waiting for the state Corporation?

The status and scope of work of the state corporation need to be reviewed. One of the options is the liquidation of Rusnano and the creation on its basis of a new state corporation Rosinnovation with broader powers.

26.01.2010
Other life sciences

Molecular colonies

The use of molecular colonies makes it possible to detect 1 molecule of marker DNA or 2 molecules of marker RNA in a clinical sample with 100% specificity.

26.01.2010