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Genetics

Will studying a rare mutation help defeat obesity?

The discovery of a mutation that prevents fat from accumulating will allow us to better understand the causes of the opposite condition – when there is too much fat. And this is relevant for a much larger number of people.

17.06.2013
Other life sciences

How evolution has built into us the limitation of life expectancy

Peter Lansdorp, head of the European Institute for the Biology of Aging – about why some cells die and others live forever, how evolution has built into us the limitation of life expectancy and how cooperation with the Skolkovo project is conducted.

17.06.2013
Various

Philips – for Russian healthcare

Elena Dizendorf, Medical Director of Philips in Russia and the CIS, spoke about how Philips Healthcare could help Russians stop dying from cancer, as well as about other areas of the company's work in Russia.

17.06.2013
Genetics

Lecture notes on the wonders of genetics

June 13 in the framework of the project "Public lectures Polit.Denis Rebrikov, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Director of Science at the DNA Technology research and Production company, gave a lecture "An ordinary Miracle of Genetics".

17.06.2013
Note to the businessman

VentureHealth offers to invest in Life Sciences

The VentureHealth crowdfunding platform offers investors the opportunity to finance various companies with a wide range of parameters, such as risk level, return on investment, potentially explosive technologies.

17.06.2013
Grants and competitions

IV International Student Tournament of Natural Sciences

Teams formed by students of natural sciences and technical specialties are invited to participate in the Tournament. The tasks of the Tournament will lie on the borders of chemistry, physics, biology, engineering sciences.

17.06.2013
Other life sciences

Nail stem cells are the key to limb regeneration?

Mammals have a remarkable ability to regenerate lost fingertips, including nails, nerves, and even bones. Determining in this phenomenon is the interaction of nail stem cells and proteins of the Wnt signaling pathway, including their differentiation.

14.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Liver: regeneration instead of transplantation?

Liver transplantation is the main method of treating patients with end–stage diseases of this organ, but a new study by scientists at Mount Sinai Medical Center suggests the possibility of liver regeneration using cell therapy.

14.06.2013
Various

Today is the Day of the donor

World Blood Donor Day is celebrated on June 14. On this day 145 years ago, the Austrian physician and immunologist Karl Landsteiner was born, who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1930 for the discovery of human blood groups.

14.06.2013
Your health

Mammography does not reduce breast cancer mortality?

The latest study by scientists from Oxford may tip the scales in the direction of "mammo-skeptics" and force many British women to weigh the pros and cons even more carefully before going for a mammogram.

13.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Recipe for making kidneys

Anthony Atala, a world–renowned specialist in regenerative medicine, talks about the creation of a human mini-kidney, the development of cellular biomedical technologies and prospects for cooperation with Russian scientists.

13.06.2013
Other life sciences

The reward found the hero after tens of thousands of years

One of the laureates of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology is the director of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the SB RAS, Academician Anatoly Derevyanko, one of the authors of the discovery of the Denisov man.

13.06.2013
Various

"Poor" German pensioners

In fact, the real poor among German pensioners are about 2%. They receive additional social assistance from the state. Basically, this age group is better organized than the youth.

13.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Stress-resistant pluripotent stem cells from adipose tissue

Scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles have isolated from human adipose tissue a population of pluripotent stem cells resistant to cellular stress, capable of differentiating into almost any type of body cells without genetic modification.

11.06.2013