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Prolonging youth

Life extension: the opinion of a well-informed optimist

– British gerontologist Aubrey de Grey believes that in 20 years scientists will be able to extend a person's life up to 1000 years. How do you feel about this? – I've heard this nonsense too...

12.01.2010
Exhibitions and conferences

Men's health and longevity – 2010

VIII International Medical Exhibition and VIII Russian Scientific and Educational Forum "Men's Health and Longevity" (February 17-18, 2010, Moscow, Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 16 Prechistenka Street).

12.01.2010
Biomedicine

A hangover pill (not for everyone and not soon :)

A substance codenamed Alda1 can (if it didn't work out to drink less) to save the owners of a defective variant of aldehyde dehydrogenase from the pangs of a hangover. However, the effect has been tested so far only in a test tube...

11.01.2010
New in Gerontology

The high bar of aging

Successful aging is a matter that concerns not only the elderly. This is something we can work on all our lives.

11.01.2010
Your health

Age is not a hindrance to sex

The benefits of maintaining sexual relations until old age were known in ancient times. Modern scientists also consider sex as one of the factors of longevity.

11.01.2010
Prolonging youth

Rules for centenarians

There are many hypotheses about how to prolong life. Which one is closer to the truth? Or maybe for longevity, you need not one, but several prerequisites that help you live for a long time and not get sick?

11.01.2010
Genetics

Monologue about genetics

With the development of fundamentally new methods of genomic sequencing and genetic analysis, it became clear: new perspectives have opened up for genetics.

30.12.2009
Note to the businessman

Big Pharme – big swimming

This publication presents the key trends that will determine the development of Big Pharma in the new year 2010.

29.12.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Biotechnology in Russia: White Silence

Industrial, or as it is also called "white", biotechnology is considered one of the most promising innovative industries. In Russia, this industry is practically frozen.

28.12.2009
Healthy skepticism

Tens of billions for a placebo?

Merck managed to convince patients to spend $21 billion on an anticholesterol drug, the effectiveness of which is questionable.

25.12.2009
Other life sciences

Virtual microfluidics

The method of controlled movement of particles in microfluidic systems using magnetic field-controlled chains of superparamagnetic micro beads can revolutionize microfluidics.

25.12.2009
Other life sciences

New sex hormone – for contraception and treatment

The discovery of a gonadotropin inhibitor in the human brain will force us to reconsider our views on the mechanisms of regulation of human reproduction and will allow us to develop new methods of contraception and treatment of infertility, premature puberty and cancer.

24.12.2009
Other life sciences

Bacteria turn gears

Bacteria randomly floating in the medium can set in motion micro gears suspended in the medium.

24.12.2009
Note to the businessman

The past year has been a turning point for the biotechnology industry

2012 should have an even stronger impact on the global biotechnology industry, when patent protection of hundreds of drugs will end. This fact is able to reverse the negative trend of the beginning of this year, when tens of thousands of biotechnologists were left on the street: big pharma will need new effective molecules.

23.12.2009
Genetics

The genome in Russia is bigger than the genome

The pathos of the "Russian human genome" is not very clear. There is already an international scientific project to decode thousands of genomes of people of different nationalities. Well, now there will be a thousand and one genomes.

23.12.2009
Your health

Movement comes with appetite

An organism that receives food too often falls into a vicious circle of inactivity, obesity and, ultimately, diabetes.

23.12.2009
New in Gerontology

Prolonging life and preventing cancer: less sugar!

Scientists have calculated two key genes that regulate the cellular response to sugar deficiency. The first one, hTERT, encodes the enzyme telomerase, which allows cells to divide indefinitely. The second, p16, encodes a protein that suppresses tumor development.

23.12.2009