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New in Gerontology

Free radicals and life extension: Get drunk on poison!

Nematodes with increased formation of free radicals, to the surprise of scientists, lived longer than ordinary ones. As well as worms that were fed a poisonous herbicide that kills plants by enhancing the synthesis of free radicals. Just please don't repeat the experiment on yourself!

10.12.2010
Prolonging youth

Another way to prolong life: to suppress the growth hormone activator

Mice in whose bodies (at an average age for this line) scientists disrupted the work of the hormone stimulating the synthesis of growth hormone, lived almost a quarter longer than the animals of the control group, and were more than 5 times less likely to get cancer.

10.12.2010
Cellular technologies

Nerve stem cells of the 999th sample

A new method of isolating a pure population of nerve stem cells promises significant progress in the treatment of diseases of the nervous system and spinal cord injuries.

09.12.2010
Other life sciences

From genomics to proteomics, metagenomics and beyond

Genomics are blueprints; proteomics are working molecular machines. And if we consider a person as a symbiotic superorganism, we will also have to do metagenomics – the study of genes (and proteins?) gut microbiota. But there is also metabolomics, and many others -omics…

08.12.2010
Cellular technologies

Induced pluripotent stem cells cured spinal cord injury

10 days after the transplantation of neurons grown from skin cells into the damaged cervical spinal cord, the monkey began to move its limbs, and six weeks later was able to walk independently.

08.12.2010
Various

To Comrade N. – the university and the person

Kazakhstan and Nazarbayev University personally should become a center for the export of education and scientific discoveries. The first to export will be developments in the field of life sciences in general and anti-aging in particular.

08.12.2010
Biomedicine

Internship at Procter &Gamble

Procter & Gamble invites Russian citizens, students of the last two years of study and graduate students specializing in natural sciences to take an internship at one of the European research centers.

08.12.2010
Biomedicine

Returnees: Alexander Kabanov, nanomedicine specialist

Director of the first academic nanomedical center in America and in the world – about plans to organize a laboratory in Russia, targeted delivery of drugs, nanoparticles in cancer treatment and much more.

07.12.2010
Grants and competitions

Skolkovo Innovation Award

The competition is designed to attract talented specialists and ideas that can give rise to startups that could potentially work in the Skolkovo Innovation Center.

07.12.2010
Genetic engineering

Minimal genome and new biology

Two articles in the November issue of the journal "Science and Life" are devoted to the creation of a bacterium with a synthetic genome and the prospects of creating a truly artificial life.

07.12.2010
Cellular technologies

Biomedical cell technologies: the draft law is ready

The draft law "On Biomedical cell Technologies", which has long been talked about in medical circles, is published on the website of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation.

06.12.2010
Grants and competitions

Photo contest "Innovations for the benefit of man"

Bayer and The Moscow Times invite creative young people from Russia aged 18 to 35 to take part in a photo contest on the theme "Innovations for the benefit of man".

06.12.2010
Nanotechnology

Cyborg nanopores will help speed up DNA analysis

The new method of DNA analysis is based on the use of the thinnest silicon nitride plate and protein molecules that form pores in cell membranes. Cyborg nanopores will help in the development of systems for fast and cheap genetic analysis.

03.12.2010
Grants and competitions

HHMI grants for young biologists and physicians

Howard Hughes Medical Institute has launched an international competition, during which 35 young scientists working in the field of biology and medicine in scientific institutes of 18 countries of the world will be selected.

03.12.2010
Genetics

Sports genes

A full sports genetic passport will cost the customer 30,000 rubles. It contains data on variations in "sports" genes, recommendations on physical activity, training regime, nutrition, and possible risks of diseases.

02.12.2010
Grants and competitions

Innovations in Russia through the eyes of journalists

JSC "Russian Venture Company" announces the establishment of the All-Russian competition for media representatives "Innovations in Russia through the eyes of journalists-2011".

02.12.2010
Genetic engineering

Chlamydia? Mycoplasmosis? Try gene therapy!

Perhaps in the future, the method of gene therapy of chlamydia and mycoplasmosis, developed for veterinary medicine, can be used to treat people.

02.12.2010
Genetics

Play Phylo – help the geneticists

You put together a puzzle, and at the same time – compare the sequences of nucleotides in the genes of different organisms. You have a chance to beat the supercomputer!

02.12.2010