Life Sciences

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Prolonging youth

Prolonging life without a low-calorie diet

Increasing the level of Sip2 protein acetylation increases the lifespan of yeast regardless of the mechanisms triggered by a low-calorie diet.

25.11.2011
Biomedicine

Everything you want to know about biomedicine...

To readers' questions BFM.ru Igor Goryanin, Executive Director of the cluster of biological and medical technologies of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, is responsible.

24.11.2011
Biomedicine

Chewing and losing weight

The principal part of the work can be considered completed: one of the "satiety hormones", peptide YY, combined with a molecule of vitamin B12, penetrates well into the bloodstream from the oral cavity. Developing chewing gum for those who want to lose weight is a matter of technique.

24.11.2011
Genetics

How to make avian flu a biological weapon?

The publication of an article on mutations that make the pathogen of avian influenza extremely dangerous to humans was postponed until the decision of biosafety experts.

22.11.2011
Cellular technologies

Geron is gone, but the stem cells won't be gone

Geron Corporation's decision to stop working with stem cells is a serious loss, but not a tragedy. Methods of therapy based on the use of stem cells are being developed by hundreds of research groups in the world.

22.11.2011
Other life sciences

Self-cleaning of vessels prevents serious diseases

Angiophagy is a biological mechanism by which the capillaries of the brain and other organs are cleared of blood micro–clots and other "garbage", including fragments of cholesterol plaques and cell decay products.

22.11.2011
Nanotechnology

Cancer diagnosis: a trap of dendrimers

Dendrimers detect cancer cells 7 times better than linear polymers, while they are able to capture a million times more cells and hold them firmly.

22.11.2011
Biomedicine

Alzheimer's vaccine: looking for volunteers

Georgetown University Medical Center is recruiting patients with the early stages of Alzheimer's disease to conduct a clinical trial of a vaccine against this disease.

18.11.2011
Cellular technologies

Donor hepatocytes instead of liver transplantation

Six months ago, Iyad Said was almost on the verge of death – his liver almost stopped functioning. The boy underwent the world's first operation to transplant donor liver cells, and now his life is not in danger.

18.11.2011
Nanotechnology

Gold nanorods will help burn out the tumor

The method of introducing more than 2 million gold nanorods into one cancer cell is a crucial step towards developing a method of destroying tumors by local heating.

18.11.2011
New in Gerontology

Older means wiser: new data on brain aging

At the annual congress of the American Society of Neuroscience, new data are presented that not only clarify some of the mechanisms of brain aging, but also provide information that will help older people retain their mental abilities.

17.11.2011
Biomedicine

Atherosclerosis vaccine

Good news for patients who are not helped by existing cholesterol-lowering methods: injections of antibodies binding to "bad" cholesterol molecules showed good results in a trial on healthy volunteers.

16.11.2011
Cellular technologies

An unexpected source of pluripotent stem cells

Australian scientists who found stem cells in female breast milk 4 years ago have shown that they, like embryonic cells, can differentiate into any tissue of the body.

15.11.2011