Genetic map of the brain
Scientists from the Allen Institute of Brain Science in Seattle are going to create a three-dimensional map of the human brain, which shows the activity of 20 thousand genes.
11.04.2008Scientists from the Allen Institute of Brain Science in Seattle are going to create a three-dimensional map of the human brain, which shows the activity of 20 thousand genes.
11.04.2008There are still many difficulties to overcome before therapeutic antitumor vaccines appear on the market, the most difficult of which is proving their effectiveness.
09.04.2008Researchers have created an installation that is controlled by an autonomous computer and is able to direct the evolution of so-called RNA enzymes – catalysts of biological processes based on RNA – without human intervention.
09.04.2008Recently, the noise around the "power engineers" has intensified in connection with court proceedings over several deaths allegedly related to their use. Let's try to figure out what energy drinks really are.
09.04.2008Dieters usually lose 5-10% of their original weight in the first six months, but 30-60% of them gain more weight after dieting than they lost within four to five years. And in reality, the picture can be even scarier.
09.04.2008Russia will become the first country in the world to sell a cancer vaccine. A small pharmacological company Antigenics announced on Tuesday that Russian regulatory authorities have approved Oncophage for sale.
09.04.2008After the chromosomes of hundreds of species of individual bacteria were deciphered, a new approach appeared in the genetics of microorganisms – the population approach. Of course, the population of the "human bioreactor" turned out to be one of the most important for the study of microbial populations.
08.04.2008It is simply impossible to list everything that genetic lighting engineers have done in some ten years. Maybe while this issue of the magazine is being prepared for publication, we will learn about another living and glowing miracle.
08.04.2008After the tragic death of a passenger in the St. Petersburg metro, the administration of the subway prepared a memo, following the advice of which you can go down to the subway, get to your destination and come to the surface alive and well.
04.04.2008The results of the study call into question the adequacy of such an indicator as the body mass index as an indicator of human health.
04.04.2008On March 25-26, 2008, the first All-Russian seminar "Genetics of life Expectancy and aging" was held at the Institute of Biology of the Komi National Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Syktyvkar).
02.04.2008The first of the cybrids (cytoplasmic hybrids) created in Newcastle lived for three days, and the largest of them grew to 32 cells.
02.04.2008Surprisingly, more than half of the psychoactive substances contained in marijuana can be used for medical purposes.
02.04.2008A hunger strike may allow you to increase the dose of the drug, and thereby the effect on tumor cells without increasing the effect of toxic effects on the body.
01.04.2008Spring is the right time to remember about vitamins. But not so much about what everyone already knows, but about a lot of myths that many people take for medical facts.
01.04.2008We are implicitly given to understand that all efforts to create new original Russian drugs are generally meaningless, because everything is already there, everything is invented, everything can be bought on the world market.
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