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Your health

Careful, calcium!

Prolonged intake of high doses of calcium contributes to an increase in mortality among women from a number of diseases, including diseases of the cardiovascular system.

18.02.2013
Biomedicine

Gene therapy of fractures

The healing of fractures and fractures of bones will be accelerated by a paste with synthetic nanoparticles based on calcium phosphate, in which two genes of growth factors that stimulate the formation of bone tissue and blood vessels are encapsulated.

18.02.2013
Other life sciences

See infrared light

Researchers from Duke University have developed a neuroimplant with which rats were able to perceive the infrared part of the spectrum.

18.02.2013
Other life sciences

Oligopeptides will help gene therapy

Scientists from Moscow State University together with foreign colleagues have created a substance that will be widely used in gene therapy: the EF-C peptide accelerates the transfer of a "therapeutic" gene from a genetically modified retroviral vector to human DNA.

18.02.2013
Other life sciences

The first electronic retina enters the US market

The FDA has approved the first artificial retina – an implantable device with some retinal functions that will help people who have lost their eyesight due to a genetic disease – retinitis pigmentosa.

18.02.2013
Nanotechnology

Ball Bomb for Ovarian Cancer

Nanoparticles filled with nanoliposomes with miRNAs that suppress the expression of one of the most important genes associated with the development of ovarian cancer reduce the mass of tumors by 83%.

15.02.2013
Prolonging youth

Will nitroglycerin slow down aging?

Nitric oxide, which is involved in many processes in the body, also "conducts" genes associated with protecting cells from stress and aging. Now the well-known nitroglycerin has become another potential geroprotector.

15.02.2013
Other life sciences

New system for early cancer diagnosis

Researchers from South Korea have developed a simple and non-invasive method for detecting cancer cells that can speed up the early diagnosis of malignant tumors.

15.02.2013
Other life sciences

Will non-coding RNAs help fight obesity?

American scientists have discovered ten non-coding RNAs, a decrease in the expression of which in adipocyte progenitor cells stops the process of adipose tissue formation.

14.02.2013
New in Gerontology

Aging: getting rid of prejudices

In the public consciousness, old age is associated only with decline and incapacity. The reviewed books, which have no analogues in Russian yet, are devoted to the liberation from such prejudices and social stigmata.

14.02.2013
Biotechnologies - into life

Analyze the genes of each tumor

The result of the joint work of the AstraZeneca biopharmaceutical company and the N.N.Petrov Research Institute of Oncology will be a project for the diagnosis of gene mutations in tumor samples, with the help of which it will be possible to more accurately select drugs for the treatment of a number of oncological diseases.

14.02.2013
Your health

Caries treatment without a drill

Soon, you will not need a drill to treat caries. The corresponding technology has been developed by European scientists and has already proven its effectiveness. However, experts also note the presence of small shortcomings in this technology.

13.02.2013
Genetic engineering

Diabetes gene therapy: tested on dogs

In dogs, as a result of a single gene therapy procedure, the symptoms of type 1 diabetes disappeared. Monitoring of the condition of the animals showed that in some cases the absence of symptoms lasted for four years.

13.02.2013
Other life sciences

Bacterial Computer

MIT engineers have designed molecular genetic circuits that allow not only to perform logical operations inside bacteria, but also to record the results in cellular DNA, which are transmitted to the next generations of microorganisms.

12.02.2013
Biomedicine

Tat-beclin 1 – the long-awaited panacea?

By triggering the autophagy mechanism, a synthetic peptide called tat-beclin-1 protects the body from malignant, infectious and neurodegenerative diseases, and also prevents aging.

11.02.2013