Genetics
The tissues of all Danes will be preserved in a biobank
Denmark has announced the opening of a national biobank, which today combines about 7 million samples of living tissues stored in freezing.
23.03.2012- English version
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Genetics
Are you going bald? Block the prostaglandin D2 receptor!
The cause of premature baldness was an increase in the level of prostaglandin D2 in the scalp. It remains only to find effective blockers of this hormone.
22.03.2012
New in Gerontology
Alzheimer's disease – type 3 diabetes?
The discovery of molecular mechanisms of the link between an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease in diabetes and a decrease in the concentration of insulin in brain tissue in Alzheimer's disease gives hope for the emergence of new treatments for this disease.
22.03.2012
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology: results of the first five-year plan
For five years, the word "nanotechnology" in Russia has become familiar in our lexicon and the scientific community has finally reached a consensus on what this concept includes.
21.03.2012
Genetic engineering
It is possible to determine gene doping, but it is difficult
Based on the results of a muscle tissue biopsy, it would be possible to distinguish a well-trained athlete from one who received gene doping, but this method is not suitable for mass doping tests.
19.03.2012
Biomedicine
Drugs against Alzheimer's disease: another candidate
The results of the study help to understand how epothilon D (ePOD) can be used to combat Alzheimer's disease in the early stages of its development.
19.03.2012
Other life sciences
I drink because girls don't like me
After mating, the male fruit fly will prefer a soft drink, and the rejected one will reach for a drink. Scientists intend to further study the effect of neuropeptide F on the formation of attitudes to sex and alcohol, including in humans.
19.03.2012
Other life sciences
Very personalized medicine
Monitoring with the help of all known "-omics" for the processes occurring in a particular organism that lead to the development of diseases is already possible, but so far it is too expensive.
19.03.2012
Biomedicine
Hope for diabetics: insulin can be synthesized in the intestine
Intestinal cells of patients with type 1 diabetes can be taught to synthesize insulin. The technique has already been tested on mice and "in vitro".
16.03.2012
Genetics
Gamers in scientific work are more efficient than a supercomputer
Humans are 70 percent of the time better than a computer at aligning several small DNA sequences.
15.03.2012
Biomedicine
DNA vaccine against HIV: starting research on volunteers
A vaccine that protects primates from multiple episodes of infection with an HIV analogue has been approved for phase 1 and phase 2b clinical trials.
14.03.2012
Genetics
The gorilla genome
Geneticists have completed a complete decoding of the gorilla genome and found that about 15% of gorilla genes are closer to their human counterparts than to those contained in the DNA of chimpanzees.
13.03.2012
Cellular technologies
Transplantation from immunocompatible donors: the first success
Five out of eight patients within a year after kidney transplantation, who did not fit them according to immunological parameters, together with hematopoietic stem cells from donors, were able to refuse to take immunosuppressants.
13.03.2012
Biomedicine
Bacteria for cancer treatment
Perhaps the final stage in the development of cancer treatment methods with the help of bacteria will be combined approaches, when chemotherapy drugs will affect the tumor from the outside, and microorganisms will kill it from the inside.
11.03.2012
Other life sciences
How to teach fat cells to burn calories?
The protein PRDM16 – a possible target of future drugs for the treatment of obesity – can work as a "switch" that turns calorie-storing white fat cells into calorie-burning brown fat cells.
11.03.2012
Prolonging youth
The second copy of the anti-oncogene improves health and prolongs life
Mice with an additional copy of the Pten gene do not get fat, despite a good appetite, and live longer than usual due to resistance to malignant diseases and increased activity of brown adipose tissue.
07.03.2012
Genetic engineering
Another dream of losing weight without dieting and physical education
Among other obstacles, the blood–brain barrier will also stand in the way of the next (so far hypothetical) remedy for obesity. An injection into the brain is not a pill…
07.03.2012
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology a la russe
World experts quote few articles by Russian scientists working in the field of nanotechnology, and the situation with obtaining patents by Russian organizations on this topic is depressing.
07.03.2012
Biomedicine
One more step to victory over Parkinsonism
Scientists are already testing the drug CLR01 on a mouse model of Parkinson's disease and hope that this study will allow us to move on to clinical trials of the compound.
06.03.2012
Cellular technologies
Regeneration instead of transplantation
The technique of changing the expression of genes that control the differentiation of progenitor cells will regenerate hepatocytes and reduce the number of patients on the waiting list for liver transplantation.
06.03.2012