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Biotechnologies - into life

Hypersensitive microparticles for cancer diagnosis

Microparticles from hydrogel make it possible to determine the miRNA profiles characteristic of various types of cancer and other diseases in blood samples. The new method is 100 times more sensitive and much more accurate than the existing ones.

01.09.2011
Healthy skepticism

Carnitine: money is wasted

The domestic dietary supplement market is flooded with carnitine, which is offered as an effective fat burner, as well as as an "energy supplement" for bodybuilding and aerobics classes. But what do scientists say about the effectiveness of carnitine?

31.08.2011
New in Gerontology

Senile bone fragility is not only osteoporosis

The reason for the increase in bone fragility as we age lies not only in the decrease in bone mass, leading to osteoporosis. Aging leads to deterioration of the mechanical properties of the cortical substance (outer layer) of the bone at different structural levels.

31.08.2011
Bioethics

Legalize euthanasia?

Supporters of the unconditional legalization of euthanasia are about 49% of the French, another 45% consider such a measure possible if certain conditions are met. Moreover, representatives of older age groups support this measure more than young people.

31.08.2011
Grants and competitions

Postgraduate studies at Rockefeller University: Biomedicine and other life sciences

Rockefeller University announces the next enrollment in postgraduate studies in a wide range of biomedical and related specialties: biomedicine, biochemistry, chemistry, structural biology, genetics, molecular, cellular biology, immunology, virology, microbiology, physics, mathematical biology…

30.08.2011
Prolonging youth

Immune System Rejuvenation: Inhibit inhibitors!

Suppression of one of the signaling mechanisms activated by an encounter with an infectious agent makes it possible to temporarily rejuvenate inactivated T-lymphocytes of the aging immune system.

30.08.2011
Note to the businessman

Synthetic genes are rapidly becoming cheaper

According to experts, over the next five years, the cost of obtaining one nucleotide should reach the value of €0.3-0.5 while maintaining the pace of development of the synthetic genomics industry.

29.08.2011
Healthy skepticism

A lie for salvation

Are fancy treatments in expensive spas the purest wiring or can they be of any use? The specialists' response was brief and exhaustive. Firstly, this is a wiring. And secondly, there will certainly be benefits.

29.07.2011
New in Gerontology

Poverty is not a vice, but it shortens telomeres

Over the past ten years, people from the low-income group have shortened telomeric sections of chromosomes on average by an order of magnitude more than their wealthier compatriots.

29.07.2011
Note to the businessman

From BioHealing – income is not puny

The head of Advanced BioHealing claims that a 13-fold return on investment is the second most successful result in the last 58 years.

29.07.2011
Biomedicine

A pill for blood pressure... and senile senility

The primary results of a clinical study of the drug guanfacine, originally intended for the treatment of hypertension, showed that no reduces the symptoms of senile disorders of short-term memory.

29.07.2011
Innovative Russia

RUSNANO earned its first millions

From the net profit of Ruskhimbio LLC, more than three million rubles were allocated for the payment of dividends in favor of Rusnano.

28.07.2011
Controversial

Is a cancerous tumor an independent biological species?

Heretical hypothesis: the cause of cancer is large-scale chromosomal rearrangements, not point mutations in several genes. Cancer cells eventually get a relatively stable karyotype, which makes it possible to name each cancer a new biological species.

28.07.2011
Exhibitions and conferences

Personnel for the new biomedical industry

On September 10, 2011, the MIPT will host an All–Russian conference with elements of a scientific school, which will focus on training personnel for a new type of industry - the biomedical industry.

27.07.2011
Genetic engineering

The IL-15Ra gene interferes with a bad runner

Mice deprived of the IL-15Ra gene can run six times longer than their "normal" relatives. Certain variants of this gene are very common in athletes – runners and long-distance cyclists.

26.07.2011
Innovative Russia

Innovative high Michurinsky biotechnologies

The technopark in the field of high biotechnologies should start operating in the city of Michurinsk in the near future. Where high biotechnologies and innovations are hidden there, neither from the text of the note nor from the video can be understood.

26.07.2011
New in Gerontology

Another reason for senile dementia

With senile dementia, a person pays for the years lived after the loss of reproductive abilities. In monkeys, fertility persists until the end of life, and their brains degrade much less in old age than in humans.

26.07.2011