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Cellular technologies

Amniotic stem cells – Rising stars of cell therapy

Stem cells of amniotic fluid (amniotic fluid) can give rise to almost any type of cell and, unlike embryonic stem cells, do not form tumors when injected into the body of animals.

25.11.2009
Bioethics

Transplantology in law

The order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation "On approval of the Procedure for providing medical care by organ transplantation" is commented by the director of the Center for Transplantology and Artificial Organs, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Sergey Gauthier.

24.11.2009
Genetics

GATA-1 – Gene traffic controller

The GATA-1 gene plays the role of a universal regulator of the work of other genes. Scientists have found 2616 genes that, in response to the addition of the encoded GATA-1 protein, begin to work either at least twice as actively, or, on the contrary, reduce activity.

24.11.2009
Bioethics

Transplantology is illegal

Among the "non–working" articles in our criminal legislation is Article 120 - "Coercion to the removal of human organs or tissues for transplantation."

24.11.2009
Biomedicine

"Velcro" for tumor cells

A new method for detecting tumor cells in the bloodstream will improve the early diagnosis of metastasis and monitoring the results of cancer treatment.

24.11.2009
Grants and competitions

Russian-French innovations

The Fund for the Promotion of the Development of Small Forms of Enterprises and the French innovation agency OSEO-Innovation have started collecting proposals for joint Franco-Russian innovation projects.

24.11.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

RNA interference for biopharmaceuticals

As information accumulates about the possibility of silencing genes using RNA interference, more and more biopharmaceutical developments based on this mechanism appear.

23.11.2009
Other life sciences

For the first time on the screen: neutrophils are on the trail

By moving microparticles containing chemicals characteristic of bacteria with the help of "optical tweezers", the researchers directed the movement of immune cells – neutrophils – in the right direction and filmed unique videos.

23.11.2009
Biomedicine

Medications for Down syndrome?

In addition to compounds that increase the activity of norepinephrine, several other drugs are undergoing clinical trials involving patients with Down syndrome.

23.11.2009
Biomedicine

Scientific scandal hinders the development of new flu drugs

The dispute about the mechanism of action of anti-influenza drugs led to the fact that the authors of two different hypotheses stopped talking to each other. The lack of consensus may slow down the development of new flu treatments.

23.11.2009
Other life sciences

Bioinformatics is not a science

In recent decades, many new sciences with fashionable names have appeared: bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics, systems biology... But in fact, bioinformatics is not a science, but a set of technologies and tasks that are solved with their help.

19.11.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Features of national biotechnology

Biotechnology, in comparison with two other areas of the innovation economy – information and nanotechnology – seems to be much more difficult to "raise" in Russia due to some national characteristics.

19.11.2009
Your health

Is it possible to resurrect the Russian pharmaceutical industry? Part 1

Fifty of the most prominent Russian pharmaceutical companies (including joint ventures with foreign firms) together account for 0.284% of the global market. This is at the level of a single company Kyowa Hakko Kirin, which closes the Top-50 list of the global pharmaceutical industry.

19.11.2009
Your health

Cholesterol demon

Sunflower oil producers helpfully write on the label "Does not contain cholesterol". You might as well write "Does not contain salt" on a pack of sugar.

19.11.2009
Nanotechnology

Contact lenses-chameleons

Contact lenses reacting to ultraviolet radiation are made of a new polymer permeated with a complex network of nanochannel filled with photochromic dye.

18.11.2009
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy: successes, difficulties, prospects

Recent advances in the field of gene therapy indicate that decades of scientific research have not been in vain and the victory of man over incurable genetic diseases is not far off. What to expect in the near future?

18.11.2009