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Genetic engineering

A clock made of genetically modified bacteria

Scientists from the University of California at San Diego were the first in the world to create a genetically programmable biological clock. They count the time in a very unusual way: at certain intervals, the luminosity of fluorescent proteins inside the cells of Escherichia coli bacteria increases significantly.

26.11.2008
Biomedicine

Problems of implementation of pharmacogenomics achievements

Pharmacogenetic research has been developing very intensively over the past 50 years. Nevertheless, the achievements of pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics are being introduced into practice extremely slowly. Moreover, this problem is relevant all over the world.

26.11.2008
Exhibitions and conferences

Molecular and genetic diagnosis of tumors

II Russian Symposium "Molecular and Genetic Diagnostics of Human Tumors" (January 22-24, 2009, N. N. Blokhin Russian Research Center).

25.11.2008
Biotechnologies - into life

Russian pharmaceuticals is calling the Varangians

The Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Viktor Khristenko proposed to the world's largest pharmaceutical companies to create production and research centers in Russia.

25.11.2008
Biomedicine

What is the biotechnological boom of pharmacy?

In our biotechnological age, the study of the genome has allowed us to gain knowledge in the field of biological causes of various pathologies. Pharmacy is not left out of this biotechnological and genetic boom.

25.11.2008
Your health

A clean liver is the key to health

It is difficult to imagine how many different functions the liver performs. But since the liver performs many different jobs, it can suffer from many reasons.

24.11.2008
Your health

Smoking is harmful. And why?

Many smokers realize that they are doing, to put it mildly, not quite right. But in disputes with non-smokers, they usually throw the phrase "And prove to me that smoking is harmful!". Well, they ask – we will prove it.

21.11.2008
New in Gerontology

Biological age can be determined by the activity of genes

Calculating biological age is not an easy task. Now it is possible to measure aging by the activity of certain genes, but so far only in roundworms – the favorite of geneticists Caenorhabditis elegans.

21.11.2008
Cellular technologies

Gemabank turns 5 years old!

Gemabank became one of the first institutions in Russia to collect umbilical cord blood at birth, extract stem cells from it and store them at an ultra-low temperature for many years.

21.11.2008
Healthy skepticism

Do they lose weight from pills?

There can be no good pills for excess weight. Now there are only three medicines whose effectiveness in the fight against excess weight is clinically proven. These drugs have a lot of contraindications and side effects. All over the world, these products are sold strictly according to a doctor's prescription and are not recommended for everyone losing weight, but only for those whose body mass index is above 30.

20.11.2008
Nanotechnology

Tracer nanoparticles

Harmless calcium phosphate particles with a size of 20-50 nanometers successfully pass into cells and dissolve, releasing their "cargo" – a drug and a fluorescent dye.

20.11.2008
Biomedicine

Cocktail for little roommates

Developed more than thirty years ago, a special solution for the recovery of patients after surgery later found registration in toxicology, and in the light of new knowledge about the symbiosis of humans and bacteria proved to be in demand in the treatment of a number of diseases.

19.11.2008
Biomedicine

Biomedicine News

Neurons from the stem cells of the tooth pulp; what is the difference between the brain of old people with a clear mind; an experimental drug based on "anti-microRNA" to protect the heart.

19.11.2008
New in Gerontology

Old people! Don't be afraid of sex!

Now a person aged 65 can safely expect to live another two decades or so. Naturally, many people want to make up for those hours of sex that were "lost" earlier due to stressful work, crying children or fears of getting pregnant.

18.11.2008
Other life sciences

Insidious test tubes

Perhaps many of the problems faced by geneticists and microbiologists when growing cell cultures in the laboratory are due precisely to the influence of the test tube material, due to which some indicators may differ from the correct ones by dozens of times!

18.11.2008