Life Sciences

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Genetics

Breast cancer: Size matters

Of the 7 identified single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with large breast size, 3 are closely related to other "snips" correlating with an increased risk of breast cancer.

05.07.2012
Genetics

New "osteoarthritis genes"

Scientists from the University of Newcastle have managed to identify eight new DNA sites responsible for the development of osteoarthritis. Previously, three areas of the genetic code responsible for osteoarthritis were identified.

04.07.2012
Genetics

100 million megabytes of genetic data per day

A channel has been put into operation that allows the exchange of genetic information between the United States and China at a speed of 10 gigabits per second.

04.07.2012
Genetics

Genomic data analysis: Learning from the best

The first educational course in Russia "Analysis of genomic data" is being held in the Moscow region with the participation of teachers of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

04.07.2012
Prolonging youth

Gene therapy for memory rejuvenation

After the introduction of additional copies of the DNA methylase gene into hippocampal cells, the memory of elderly mice was dramatically rejuvenated.

03.07.2012
Prolonging youth

Life Extension: from the elixir of immortality to SkQ

The problems of aging and death have interested mankind since ancient times, while the desire to understand the phenomenon of aging was inseparable from the desire to slow down or eliminate it.

03.07.2012
Genetic engineering

Antibodies of the highest quality

The complex of mutations will increase the stability of therapeutic antibodies and, accordingly, the quality of treatment of many diseases, including oncological and inflammatory.

29.06.2012
Cellular technologies

How to wean the immune system to destroy beta cells?

It was possible to prevent the development of type 1 diabetes mellitus in mice with a genetic predisposition to this disease with the help of macrophages "weaned" from the destruction of beta cells of the pancreas.

29.06.2012
Biomedicine

A new vaccine against nicotine addiction

One dose of a new gene therapy vaccine for life relieves mice of nicotine addiction, turning their liver into a factory for the production of antibodies against nicotine.

29.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Huntington's disease can be studied "in vitro"

The researchers turned induced pluripotent stem cells into neurons showing signs of Huntington's disease. These cells can be used to test therapies for this currently incurable disease.

28.06.2012
Genetics

The eleventh "parkinsonism gene"

An international group of geneticists and neurologists, as a result of a long-term large-scale study, managed to isolate the last of the mutated genes that provoke the development of Parkinson's disease.

28.06.2012
Genetic engineering

Genetically modified animals are illegal

Pigs with human disease genes are a much better model than rodents, but the FDA has not yet decided whether these animals can be used for experiments.

27.06.2012
Prolonging youth

To grow up to a hundred years ... of sexuality!

A person who regularly lives a sexual life will have sex to the grave. This is normal for a man, unless his health is damaged by alcohol, drugs, some diseases.

27.06.2012