Life Sciences

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Genetic engineering

Who owns the genetic information will own the world

Academician K. Scriabin – about genetically modified plants, human cloning, cancer genetics, decoding the genomes of extinct animals, the thousand-dollar genome and other problems of life sciences.

01.11.2010
Genetics

1000 Genomes Project: First results

Each person has an average of 50-100 mutations associated with hereditary diseases. This is one of the conclusions made after the first stage by the participants of the 1000 Genomes project.

28.10.2010
Nanotechnology

Implants made of biodegradable nanoceramics

The implant based on nanostructured biodegradable materials, gradually dissolving, will be replaced by a newly formed natural bone, which will completely replace the ceramic matrix.

28.10.2010
Biomedicine

Vaccine for cancer treatment: another hope

Specialists of I.M.Sechenov I Moscow State Medical University have proved the effectiveness of the method they developed for obtaining individual vaccines for cancer treatment on laboratory animals. Clinical trials are next in line.

27.10.2010
Other life sciences

Degradation instead of evolution?

Natural selection in the population of modern man has practically no effect, and our gene pool is getting worse and worse. What threatens humanity with the accumulation of harmful mutations? Perhaps our descendants will just become stupid...

26.10.2010
Biomedicine

Gene therapy against depression

Perhaps the time is not far off when gene therapy will become a remedy for depression. In any case, the results of recent research in this area set up specialists in an optimistic mood.

26.10.2010
Other life sciences

Hit the tumor on the FSH receptor?

The follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) receptor can be used in the diagnosis and treatment of many types of cancers.

21.10.2010
Prolonging youth

So that the memory becomes like a young one

The drug, selectively suppressing the synthesis of one of the glucocorticoids only in brain cells, rejuvenated the brains of decrepit (two-year-old) mice so that in the spatial memory test they were not inferior to young healthy animals.

20.10.2010
Biomedicine

Gene therapy of atherosclerosis is almost not fiction

In mice with an atherosclerosis model, after the introduction of a virus with a healthy copy of the gene, the number of cholesterol plaques in the vessels turned out to be ten times less than in animals of the control group. Maybe people with high cholesterol will soon be treated with gene therapy?

20.10.2010
Other life sciences

Roger Kornberg – about DNA, RNA, transcription and much more

The winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2006) "for the study of the molecular foundations of eukaryotic transcription" – the process of transferring information from DNA to RNA in all nuclear organisms – gave a lecture at Moscow State University.

19.10.2010
Biomedicine

In Vitro fertilization: only healthy eggs!

Two women who took part in the first study of a genetic test that allows culling eggs with chromosomal abnormalities before IVF, successfully gave birth to healthy children.

19.10.2010
Biomedicine

Trojan Pill: Continued

For the targeted administration of drugs into the right organ and even inside the cell, scientists have created "Trojan pills" – microscopic capsules made of the thinnest layers of polymers with different properties.

18.10.2010
Other life sciences

The PGC-1 gene is the alpha switch of Parkinson's disease?

The cause of parkinsonism may be a malfunction of 10 genes whose activity is controlled by one "switch" – the PGC-1-alpha gene. Drugs to activate this gene are used in diabetes – perhaps they will help parkinsonics.

14.10.2010
Cellular technologies

ESK against spinal cord injury: details

For the first time in the history of official medicine, American doctors and biologists have transplanted embryonic stem cells to a person with a spinal injury.

14.10.2010