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Cellular technologies

Cellular Alchemy

The introduction of three transcription factors – proteins regulating the activity of genes – to immune-deficient mice transforms a specific group of cells of the intestinal mucosa into cells close to insulin-producing beta cells.

18.03.2014
New in Gerontology

Low-calorie diet and life expectancy: an evolutionary hypothesis

According to a new evolutionary hypothesis, in the wild, adaptation to a low-calorie diet ensures the preservation of the ability to reproduce in difficult times, and it contributes to an increase in life expectancy only in "greenhouse" conditions.

18.03.2014
New in Gerontology

Genes and physical education in old age

One of the significant factors determining the reaction of an aging organism to physical activity is the polymorphism of the angiotensin converting enzyme gene.

18.03.2014
Other life sciences

N-acetylglucosamine against neurodegeneration

The natural metabolite N-acetylglucosamine promotes the elimination of toxic protein aggregates associated with neurodegenerative diseases from the body of nematodes and increases their life expectancy. In human cells, this compound is also synthesized, and maybe…

17.03.2014
Biomedicine

Asplatin against cisplatin-resistant tumors

The binding of cisplatin to the aspirin fragment may contribute to antitumor therapy, which can also cope with those cells that are resistant to the action of cisplatin.

17.03.2014
Healthy skepticism

Scientists about bioresonance

There is no such disease that the authors of the bioresonance therapy method would not undertake to cure: they promise to cope with everything from caries to AIDS. Scientific studies convince us that the method of bioresonance therapy does not work.

17.03.2014
Your health

Another problem of the elderly

Approximately three quarters of elderly patients suffer from several chronic diseases at the same time. Of these, one in four takes incompatible medications.

17.03.2014
Bioethics

Children to order

Will humanity face any new ethical problems when it becomes possible to choose the genetic characteristics of embryos?

17.03.2014
Other life sciences

Live biosensors for medicine and pharmacology

A universal mouse model, each cell of which expresses a fluorescent "biosensor", allows you to observe diseased cells and drugs injected into the body in real time in three dimensions.

14.03.2014
Bioethics

When the medicine is more bitter than the disease

Chemotherapy in patients at the terminal stage of cancer, as a rule, is not justified, because they do not live longer than those who refused treatment, while experiencing more severe torment.

14.03.2014
Biomedicine

Fecal therapy has been started in Novosibirsk

For the first time in Russia, the Center for New Medical Technologies of the Novosibirsk Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences began to use a newly appeared method of therapy – fecal transplantation

14.03.2014
Exhibitions and conferences

Biotechnology – 2014: details

Press release of the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Biotechnology and quality of Life" and the XII International Specialized Exhibition "World of Biotechnology 2014".

14.03.2014
Genetics

Genome-wide sequencing: beware of mistakes!

Existing technologies of genome-wide DNA sequencing, with all their perfection, still do not accurately read some genes that may be related to a particular disease.

13.03.2014
Biomedicine

Progress in stroke treatment?

Consisting of five amino acids, the peptide increases the time required to combat the effects of an ischemic stroke to four hours from the moment the artery is blocked.

13.03.2014
Genetics

IRX3 – the main regulator of "obesity genes"?

The IRX3 gene controls body weight and determines the composition of its tissues. This gene is a "switch" that controls the operation of several genetic "programs" in cells at once, scientists from the University of Chicago found out.

13.03.2014
Genetic engineering

Anti-cancer viruses

German scientists have developed several variants of a genetically modified measles virus that attack cancer cells without harming healthy tissues.

13.03.2014
Various

Medicines in Russian

Why are good and high-quality medicines sold in Europe and the USA, but this is not the case in Russia? How do outdated or inactive drugs get into the Russian pharmaceutical market and, accordingly, into pharmacies and clinics?

12.03.2014