Life Sciences

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Other life sciences

Biotechnological innovations were handed over to the museum

The exhibition "Innovative Projects of the Pushchinsky Scientific Center" will present the latest achievements of the PNC RAS in the field of molecular and cellular biology, bioorganic chemistry, genetic and cellular engineering, biophysics, etc.

03.02.2011
Biomedicine

Medicine in 10 years: four "P"

The development of biomedical technologies in the near future will make medicine Predictive, Personalized, Preventive and Participatory.

03.02.2011
Other life sciences

Canine diagnostics

By smell, dogs can detect cancer of the intestine, skin, gallbladder, lung, prostate, ovary and breast and warn the diabetic owner about an excessive decrease in glucose levels.

02.02.2011
Biomedicine

A new drug for parkinsonism?

Tests on mice have shown the high effectiveness of a potential cure for Parkinson's disease developed by specialists of the Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry.

02.02.2011
Other life sciences

Doping for memory: insulin-like growth factor

IGF-2 injections improve long-term memory and prevent forgetting. But this is in rats, and it is enough for people to remember the rule "repetition is the mother of learning." Then you will have enough internal reserves of insulin-like growth factor.

01.02.2011
Nanotechnology

Drug delivery using stealth nanotechnology

"Stealth technology" – coating with colloidal nanoparticles – makes microscopic polymer bubbles containing liquid medicinal substances more durable and "invisible" to the immune system.

01.02.2011
New in Gerontology

Sirtuins, aging and cancer

New data on the role of the aging-related sirtuin Sirt3 in the development of breast cancer in older women.

31.01.2011
Genetics

Orangutan genome: details

The orangutan became the third of the higher primates whose genomes were decoded, after humans and chimpanzees. So far, experts have conducted only a preliminary analysis of the data obtained, but they have already managed to find a lot of interesting things in them.

28.01.2011
Other life sciences

A gift to oncologists: breast-on-a-chip

"Breast on a chip" will allow testing new methods for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer using magnetic nanoparticles.

27.01.2011
Other life sciences

Life in the computer

The initiator and head of the C. elegans organism modeling project tells how and why scientists create computer models of living beings.

27.01.2011
Cellular technologies

Fetal cells for coloproctology

The only method of treating familial colon adenomatosis is amputation of the entire colon. The new method of cell therapy allows to preserve the rectum, which significantly improves the quality of life of patients.

27.01.2011
Genetics

Are hereditary diseases threatening your future children?

The rapid test, which allows married couples to check their genomes for the presence of almost 600 mutations fraught with the development of severe hereditary diseases in their future children, in preliminary tests showed almost 100 percent reliability.

27.01.2011
Biomedicine

Cocaine vaccine

The experimental vaccine is a combination of cocaine-like compound molecules and adenovirus particles that stimulate an immune response, but do not cause disease.

25.01.2011
Nanotechnology

RNA origami

Nanoparticles from RNA can be used in various fields of engineering and medicine, if you cope with the chemical instability of RNA and its rapid destruction by enzymes-RNases. This was achieved simultaneously by two groups of researchers.

24.01.2011
Biomedicine

AIDS Treatment: RNA with a homing warhead

An aptamer, a chain of nucleotides that recognizes one of the HIV proteins, drags a short interfering RNA through the virus envelope that blocks the reproduction of the immunodeficiency virus.

24.01.2011
Other life sciences

In the world of the cell

"Journey into the world of the cage" is a new excursion route of the St. Petersburg Museum of Hygiene.

21.01.2011
Nanotechnology

Shooting at the tumor with separable warheads

Nanoparticles, which, upon contact with cancer cells, are split into smaller objects, will allow drugs to penetrate deeper into the tumor tissue, providing more effective treatment.

20.01.2011