Life Sciences

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Bioethics

The right to suicide

The European Court of Human Rights will consider two new cases concerning euthanasia and assisted suicide, Koch v. Germany and Alda Gross v. Sweden.

27.06.2012
Genetics

Reading Genomes

An abridged version of the lecture "What have we learned from the Neanderthal genome?" by M. Gelfand, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of the Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics of Moscow State University.

27.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Own kidney on a pig carcass

The researchers removed all the cells from the pig kidney, leaving its skeleton and circulatory system. In the future, the patient's own cells will be seeded into the frame.

26.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Almost a real liver "in vitro"

Japanese researchers forced pluripotent stem cells to form rudimentary liver tissue in vitro.

26.06.2012
Biomedicine

Two vaccines for cocaine addiction

Cornell University researchers have developed two vaccines that use different mechanisms to stimulate the production of antibodies that block cocaine molecules before they enter the brain.

26.06.2012
Prolonging youth

Blocking one protein slows down aging

Suppression of the synthesis of a single protein - the nuclear factor-Kappa-bi (NF-Kappa B) – allowed scientists to slow down the aging of mice.

26.06.2012
Genetics

Science on a pea

The exhibition "Science on a Pea" in the Darwin Museum is dedicated to the anniversaries of three remarkable scientists at once - the 190th anniversary of the birth of G. Mendel, the 140th anniversary of the birth of N.K.Koltsov and the 130th anniversary of the birth of M.P.Sadovnikova-Koltsova.

26.06.2012
Other life sciences

Eight million cancer drug candidates

In search of a substance capable of inhibiting P-glycoprotein, a protein that prevents the effect of chemotherapy on cancer cells, scientists tested eight million compounds using computer modeling.

25.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Artificial trachea: technology is being improved

The difference between the Krasnodar operation and the Moscow one is that the frame of the trachea and part of the larynx was not taken from a donor, but prepared artificially. It is planned to carry out a series of such transplants within the framework of the megagrant.

25.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Italians in Russia: tracheal and laryngeal bioprosthesis

The first tracheal and laryngeal transplant operation in Russia was successfully performed at the Krasnodar Regional Clinical Hospital under the guidance of Paolo Macchiarini, Professor of Regenerative Surgery at the Karolinska Institute.

22.06.2012
New in Gerontology

Lonely old age is a risk factor

Elderly people who feel lonely are characterized by a 59% higher risk of deterioration of health and a 45% higher risk of death.

20.06.2012
Cellular technologies

The time of stem cells is approaching

More and more methods of using stem cells for the treatment of various diseases, including hereditary and age-related, are approaching clinical practice.

19.06.2012
New in Gerontology

A new way to fight aging and cancer?

Experts hope that preventing the development of cancer and other age-related diseases will only be a side effect of drugs developed based on the results of their work. The main result will be a slowdown in the aging process.

19.06.2012
Prolonging youth

We will make you live longer!

Chief therapist of Russia A.Chuchalin: "If we have an effective fight against tobacco smoking, then plus 10-15 years to the life (of the population)... If it works (the anti-smoking law), then we will come to this result."

19.06.2012
Nanotechnology

Plug the firefly into the socket

Nanorods that mimic the work of the luciferin pigment and the luciferase enzyme in the body of a firefly allow you to create a lighting system that will be much more efficient than LED lamps.

19.06.2012
Other life sciences

Cloud bioinformatics for "-omics"

The questions of where to store, how to store and how to provide access to the data that proteomics, genomics, microbiomics and other so-called "-omics" allow bioinformatic cloud technologies to answer.

19.06.2012
Cellular technologies

Corneal endothelium: cell therapy instead of transplantation

The work of Japanese scientists gives hope for the development of new methods of treating not only corneal endothelial dysfunction – the main cause of severe visual impairment, but also a number of other pathologies.

18.06.2012