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Genetics

Obama spares no money on gene diagnostics

US President Barack Obama, in his annual State of the Union address to Congress, made a proposal to allocate hundreds of millions of dollars for the development of treatment taking into account the genetic characteristics of patients.

06.02.2015
Genetics

Evolution has a beginning…

Human evolution, experts believe, is proceeding at the same "prehistoric" pace, despite a sharp decline in child and adult mortality and fertility and the alleged absence of natural selection.

06.02.2015
Genetic engineering

Genetically modified E. coli instead of carrots?

American scientists have proposed to produce vitamin A directly in the human intestine: they presented genetically modified intestinal bacteria that secrete beta-carotene.

06.02.2015
Cellular technologies

An organism-on-a-chip will replace animal models

A new multi-organ chip, reproducing complex metabolic processes of the human body with amazing accuracy, will save the field of biomedical research from the need for animal experiments.

06.02.2015
Other life sciences

Unexpected complication of fecal therapy

The transplantation of fecal microbiota from an overweight donor cured a woman of diarrhea caused by clostridium, but led to the rapid development of obesity.

06.02.2015
Cellular technologies

Donor stem cells against heart attack

For the first time in history, Spanish doctors have successfully treated seven patients who suffered severe heart attacks using allogeneic (donor) stem cells.

04.02.2015
Genetic engineering

The flash of a new "star"

A breakthrough discovery in genetic engineering: with the help of the STAR system, scientists managed to make RNA molecules not only turn off, but also turn on genes, which will significantly simplify all genetic experiments and opens the way for the creation of biocomputers.

03.02.2015
Genetics

How to benefit from decoded genomes?

One of the main challenges that bioinformatics faces is formulated by British Professor George Church: "A genome for a thousand, its interpretation for a million."

03.02.2015
Genetics

Russian genomes

St. Petersburg State University has already purchased the first equipment for "Russian Genomes" and this year will begin to form a DNA database of all peoples of the Russian Federation.

03.02.2015
Prolonging youth

Prevention of wrinkles: a complex but effective way

The first results of her anti-aging program, a resident of Britain, according to her, noticed at the age of 40, when she drew attention to the fact that her skin looks younger than that of her peers.

02.02.2015
Genetic engineering

A brief encyclopedia of gene therapy

Gene therapy today can be defined as the treatment of diseases by introducing genes into patients' cells in order to change gene defects or give cells new functions.

02.02.2015
Other life sciences

Russian bioinformatics for an American company

Insilico Medicine at the world's largest conference on personalized medicine PMWC-2015 was noted among the most promising for the development of a software platform for personal selection of medicines.

02.02.2015
Nanotechnology

Biosensor-universal

The new hydrogel biosensor makes it possible to analyze not one substance, as existing models, but a wide range of human metabolites, including glucose, uric acid and cholesterol, in one drop of blood.

30.01.2015
Genetics

How Epigenetics can Fix Our Memory and much more

Despite the fact that they are still at the theoretical stage, drugs capable of adding or removing epigenetic labels with high accuracy may have several unique advantages over traditional medicines.

30.01.2015
Nanotechnology

Self-cleaning electrochemical sensors

Nowadays, most chemical and biological sensors are electrochemical devices. Italian researchers have created a simple and cheap electrochemical sensor that cleans itself when illuminated with ultraviolet light.

30.01.2015