Genetics
Jurassic Park will never be opened
The talk that it would be good to isolate the DNA of dinosaurs or insects trapped in an amber trap can be stopped.
11.10.2012- English version
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Your health
The antioxidant will find a hole
Researchers from Kingston University in London have shown that most of the products attributed to antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties do not have a systemic effect on the body.
11.10.2012
Exhibitions and conferences
Biotechnologies – innovation and sustainable development
The round table will discuss the prospects for the development of biotechnologies in Russia, their role in innovative development and their impact on the country's economy.
11.10.2012
Biomedicine
To the question of the benefits of nicotine
As a result of joint work, an international group of scientists has found out how nicotine helps to improve memory.
10.10.2012
Biomedicine
An important step to creating a cream for the treatment of melanoma
Australian researchers have synthesized a peptide that mimics the myxoma virus, which kills melanoma. Based on it, scientists want to make a cream that will be effective at an early stage of the disease.
10.10.2012
Nanotechnology
Is a cream with nanoparticles nothing more than a publicity stunt?
Don't believe the advertising: a study by scientists at the University of Bath has shown that even with partial damage to a skin sample, nanoparticles do not penetrate through the upper stratum corneum of the epidermis.
10.10.2012
Other life sciences
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded to molecular biologists
Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka made fundamental discoveries that explained how one of the important classes of cellular receptors, G–protein coupled receptors, works.
10.10.2012
Prolonging youth
Old stem cells can be restored to youth
The technique of rejuvenation of stem cells of elderly patients opens the way to increase the effectiveness of autologous cell therapy of various diseases and to the overall rejuvenation of the body.
10.10.2012
Theories of aging
Life expectancy does not depend on the length of telomeres
An adequate indicator of life expectancy was not the actual length of telomeres, but the rate of their shortening.
10.10.2012
Healthy skepticism
Why is a bad life better than a good one
I'm going to teach you how to live for a long time and never get sick. I'm telling you the recipe...
10.10.2012
Grants and competitions
Start-2013
The Fund for Assistance to the Development of Small Forms of Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere announces the holding of open competitions for small businesses under the Start-2013 program.
08.10.2012
Nanotechnology
Together against cancer
Antibodies specific to the receptor on the surface of cancer cells that triggers the mechanism of apoptosis cannot activate it singly. Magnetic nanoparticles helped to assemble them into groups.
08.10.2012
Genetics
The cause of dozens of hereditary diseases
The mechanism of occurrence of severe diseases associated with an unusual change in the structure of the genome has been solved. This knowledge is important both for the diagnosis and for the search for drugs against three dozen human genetic diseases.
08.10.2012
Nanotechnology
Delivery of drugs to aging cells
Aging cells overexpress beta-galactosidase, and nanoparticles coated with a substrate for this enzyme open in its presence, releasing the contents to destroy cells, prevent their deterioration, or even to rejuvenate.
08.10.2012
Your health
Food and other drugs
Internet addiction is increasingly being added to the most common addictions recognized as mental disorders – from gambling, alcohol, food, computers, smoking and drugs.
08.10.2012
Biomedicine
Against AIDS and cancer
The antiretroviral drug nelfinavir not only suppresses the development of the human immunodeficiency virus in the cells of the human immune system, but also prevents the development of aggressive forms of breast cancer.
08.10.2012
Various
Rumors and gossip about the choice of the sex of the unborn child
American clinics for in vitro fertilization choose, at the request of clients, the sex of either several thousand, or only a few dozen future babies. Who to believe?
08.10.2012
Your health
How to live to be a hundred years old
Most Americans ignore the doctors' recommendations given here. Personally, you can also ignore them, but don't blame me if anything...
05.10.2012
Cellular technologies
Mice from stem cells
Scientists from Kyoto University created full-fledged eggs from embryonic and induced stem cells of mice and brought it to the birth of healthy mice.
05.10.2012
Cellular technologies
iPSCs and cancer cells are similar at the molecular level
This is the first study that describes specific molecular pathways common to induced pluripotent and cancer cells, when compared directly.
05.10.2012