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Genetics

1000 Genomes Project: First results

Each person has an average of 50-100 mutations associated with hereditary diseases. This is one of the conclusions made after the first stage by the participants of the 1000 Genomes project.

28.10.2010
Nanotechnology

Implants made of biodegradable nanoceramics

The implant based on nanostructured biodegradable materials, gradually dissolving, will be replaced by a newly formed natural bone, which will completely replace the ceramic matrix.

28.10.2010
Grants and competitions

IMPRS Scholarships for Graduate students from Biomedicine

Postgraduate scholarships of the International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences in the fields of biochemistry, neurobiology, molecular biology, molecular medicine and structural biology.

27.10.2010
Various

Passions for retirement age

Why do officials tell horror stories about the lack of money in the pension system? One of the goals of the wailing of the state bureaucracy is obvious: raising the retirement age. But is it really necessary and justified?

27.10.2010
Biomedicine

Vaccine for cancer treatment: another hope

Specialists of I.M.Sechenov I Moscow State Medical University have proved the effectiveness of the method they developed for obtaining individual vaccines for cancer treatment on laboratory animals. Clinical trials are next in line.

27.10.2010
Your health

About medicines – for dummies

Due to what mechanisms of action drugs work; what are side effects and how to deal with them; once again about the dangers of self-medication.

26.10.2010
Other life sciences

Degradation instead of evolution?

Natural selection in the population of modern man has practically no effect, and our gene pool is getting worse and worse. What threatens humanity with the accumulation of harmful mutations? Perhaps our descendants will just become stupid...

26.10.2010
Biomedicine

Gene therapy against depression

Perhaps the time is not far off when gene therapy will become a remedy for depression. In any case, the results of recent research in this area set up specialists in an optimistic mood.

26.10.2010
Various

How to save on pensioners

Nowadays, the concept of retirement age at 60 or 65 is becoming irrelevant. In the future, more and more elderly people will want to work longer or start professional retraining after the age of 60.

22.10.2010
Healthy skepticism

Genetically modified water, fresh Aral…

This morning, the news about genetically modified water and other pearls of the correspondent of Radio Russia and the experts of the Clean Water program, accompanied by healthy laughter, flew around the Runet.

21.10.2010
Other life sciences

Hit the tumor on the FSH receptor?

The follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) receptor can be used in the diagnosis and treatment of many types of cancers.

21.10.2010
Various

Pulp fiction, in Nature

In September, the world leader of scientific periodicals, the journal Nature, published an article about the identification of the fact of deliberate sabotage in a small American scientific laboratory.

21.10.2010
Prolonging youth

So that the memory becomes like a young one

The drug, selectively suppressing the synthesis of one of the glucocorticoids only in brain cells, rejuvenated the brains of decrepit (two-year-old) mice so that in the spatial memory test they were not inferior to young healthy animals.

20.10.2010
Biomedicine

Gene therapy of atherosclerosis is almost not fiction

In mice with an atherosclerosis model, after the introduction of a virus with a healthy copy of the gene, the number of cholesterol plaques in the vessels turned out to be ten times less than in animals of the control group. Maybe people with high cholesterol will soon be treated with gene therapy?

20.10.2010
Other life sciences

Roger Kornberg – about DNA, RNA, transcription and much more

The winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2006) "for the study of the molecular foundations of eukaryotic transcription" – the process of transferring information from DNA to RNA in all nuclear organisms – gave a lecture at Moscow State University.

19.10.2010