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Biomedicine

Telomerase is a potential target of antitumor therapy

The enzyme telomerase is the cause of chronic inflammation in malignant diseases. Reducing its activity with the help of pharmaceuticals can reduce the dosage of traditional chemotherapy drugs.

26.11.2012
New in Gerontology

Aging and sexuality

Age-related decline in sexual activity is characteristic of a person, but it very much depends on the socio-cultural context in which elderly people manifest their sexuality.

26.11.2012
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy against epilepsy

Gene therapy based on a rat model of the disease was used to quickly suppress seizures, prevent their recurrence and for the successful treatment of epileptic foci.

26.11.2012
Theories of aging

How does aging begin?

The discoveries made during the yeast experiments bring clarity to the cascade of events that make up the aging process and pave the way to understanding the impact on life expectancy, aging and age-related diseases has the interaction of genetics and environmental factors.

26.11.2012
Biomedicine

Diabetes Medication Helps with Alzheimer's Disease

Rosiglitazone, approved by the FDA for the treatment of insulin resistance in patients with type 2 diabetes, may improve the cognitive function of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

23.11.2012
Note to the businessman

Business angels will be helped financially

The RVC Seed Investment Fund announces the launch of the Business Angel program, which involves co-investment on standard terms in early seed stage projects in which business angels invest.

23.11.2012
Various

Flu vaccines are not as effective as we are being told

Modern vaccines protect only 59% of the population aged 18 to 65 from influenza, and for the elderly this figure is much lower. The over-hype of available vaccines keeps scientists from inventing new, much more effective ones.

23.11.2012
Your health

Develop body culture!

Adolescents who had above-average muscle strength at the beginning of the study had a 20-35 percent lower risk of becoming victims of early death as a result of heart disease and in general.

22.11.2012
Note to the businessman

How to present a biotech project

I can't say that biotech projects are much more difficult to present than IT. With proper elaboration of the presentation at the same time, in 99% of cases it is possible to tell both the concept of the Internet service and the uniqueness of the molecule.

21.11.2012
Grants and competitions

Skolkovo Innovation Award – 2012

Technological projects based on the development and use of network and cloud technologies in energy conservation, healthcare and education are accepted for the competition.

21.11.2012
Your health

For beautiful ladies: 12 ways to harm beauty and health

Most of us have no idea to what extent our life consists of so-called bad habits. Meanwhile, the most dangerous of them can cause catastrophic damage: families are destroyed, health is killed, personality is destroyed.

21.11.2012
Other life sciences

The brain-computer interface is being improved

Engineers from Stanford University have created a new algorithm for decoding the electrical activity of the brain, which has doubled the efficiency of the machine-brain interface.

20.11.2012
Biomedicine

Disable the "harmful" part of immunity

The method of selective suppression of the immune system can be used to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases, as well as to prevent complications after organ transplantation.

20.11.2012