Life Sciences

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Genetics

How to determine the risk of alcoholism

A panel of 11 genes, most of which are involved in the development of various neuropsychiatric disorders, is an effective tool for diagnosing predisposition to alcoholism.

23.05.2014
Biomedicine

Peptide 1018

Consisting of 12 amino acids, the peptide successfully destroys bacterial biofilms – communities of bacteria, many of which do not respond to antibiotics at all and pose a particular threat to health.

23.05.2014
Other life sciences

New frontiers of photodynamic therapy

The improved PDT method allows it to be used for the treatment of not only superficial tumors, but also those located in the thickness of tissues.

22.05.2014
Other life sciences

Genomic bioinformatics

The task currently facing IT specialists working in the field of biomedicine is the integration of analyzed and systematized research results into clinical practice.

22.05.2014
Cellular technologies

The adventures of an Italian in Russia

Paolo Macchiarini has been the head of the Center for Regenerative Medicine of the Kuban Medical University for several years. They managed to lure the professor to Krasnodar with the help of a megagrant of the Russian government of 150 million rubles. The center was created with this money.

21.05.2014
Biomedicine

Unique Russian HIV vaccine

One can argue about how good the Combivichvak vaccine developed in the Novosibirsk Vector Center is, whether it is possible to expect the necessary immune response from it, and even more so protection from the virus, but its uniqueness in design is undeniable.

21.05.2014
Other life sciences

Will Protectin DX help in the treatment of diabetes?

The lipid protectin DX synthesized in the body mimics some of the effects of exercise on blood glucose levels and can be used to treat insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.

21.05.2014
Genetics

I recognize the cute one by... DNA

The DNA of two people living in a couple is much more similar to each other than the DNA of any other pair of arbitrarily considered men and women.

20.05.2014
Theories of aging

The Hunger Games

Already now we are faced with a choice: to take drugs that supposedly increase life expectancy, or not.

20.05.2014
Other life sciences

An old age pill: a search algorithm

MIPT specialists have presented an algorithm that can help in the search for drugs that slow down the aging process. The researchers, whose work is presented in the journal Frontiers in Genetics, compared the activity of genes in the cells of young and elderly patients.

19.05.2014
Cellular technologies

Induced stem cells can replace bone defects

Experiments on rhesus monkeys demonstrated the possibility of forming new bone tissue from autologous induced pluripotent stem cells and a low risk of teratomas.

16.05.2014
Genetic engineering

Probiotics-ferromagnets

Probiotic bacteria with oxymagnetite nanoparticles on the outer surface have acquired ferromagnetic properties that can be used in MRI diagnostics, as well as in the treatment of cancer of the digestive organs.

16.05.2014
Genetic engineering

DNA with three base pairs: details

Adding a pair of synthetic compounds to a standard set of nucleotides allows you to encode the synthesis of not twenty, but one hundred and seventy-two amino acids. The number of protein variants that can be synthesized with their help becomes simply astronomical.

15.05.2014
Other life sciences

Space is bad for you

Traveling in space can make you weak, tired, sick and, with a certain degree of probability, suffering from depression.

14.05.2014