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Cellular technologies

Born in a shirt? Give it to the patch for the heart!

The amniotic membrane – the germ shell, which sometimes sticks to the body of children "born in a shirt", turned out to be another source of ethical, universal and sufficiently accessible stem cells.

02.06.2010
Various

Orphaned children are waiting for foster parents

A draft law is being developed in which the concepts of "rare diseases", "orphan medicines" and "palliative care" will be prescribed. By September, registers of such patients should be formed and amendments on "orphan" drugs to the Federal Law "On the Circulation of Medicines" should be worked out.

02.06.2010
Genetics

Genome sequencing: do you need the whole DNA or cut it?

The development of a method that allows the sequencing of the genome to read the sequence of nucleotides of an entire DNA molecule, rather than cut into fragments, may soon make reading an individual genome a routine procedure.

02.06.2010
Your health

Prostate adenoma: know your maneuver

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (adenoma) – enlargement of the prostate gland is one of the most common urological diseases of elderly and elderly men.

01.06.2010
New in Gerontology

Let's postpone aging for later

Man has managed to postpone his biological aging for a decade. In the future, humanity is waiting for further progress in increasing the limits of healthy life expectancy.

31.05.2010
Other life sciences

The future belongs to synthetic antibodies

The ability to synthesize antibodies to the entire proteome of the human body will allow not only to study in detail the functioning of these proteins, but also to develop a huge number of new diagnostic tests.

31.05.2010
Nanotechnology

Nanotube Tattoo for Blood glucose monitoring

"Ink" from nanotubes suspended in solution will be injected under the skin of the patient's hand in the form of a kind of tattoo. The concentration of glucose in the blood will be shown by a sensor similar to a wristwatch.

31.05.2010
Biomedicine

Measles virus against brain cancer

The introduction of a modified measles virus into the bed of a brain tumor after its surgical removal will destroy residual cancer cells, which will soften the regimes of postoperative chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

31.05.2010
Biomedicine

Blindness and liver: a link at the gene level

Defects in the gene encoding the protein synthesized in the liver significantly increase the risk of macular degeneration, a disease that is the most common cause of blindness in the elderly.

28.05.2010
Genetics

DNA itself regulates the frequency of mutations

The frequency of mutations is determined not by the localization of a DNA fragment on a chromosome, but by the features of the DNA sequence itself, in particular, the content of CpG duplets in it.

28.05.2010
Your health

Cord Blood Bank: Will you get the deposit back?

In the USA, many parents treat the issue of cord blood preservation as a kind of medical insurance and buy these services without any doubts. As far as it is justified – decide for yourself.

28.05.2010
Nanotechnology

The world of nanotechnology

A series of popular science lectures "The World of Nanotechnology" will be freely available on the websites of RUSNANO, BINOM publishing house. Laboratory of Knowledge" and on a number of other nanotechnology sites.

27.05.2010
Genetics

Disassemble the mouse into genes

The project participants intend to grow generations of mice with "switched off" or missing genes in order to establish how these genome changes affect the physiological and behavioral characteristics of animals.

27.05.2010
Innovative Russia

Government, hands off innovation!

Don Wood, Head of the Draper Fisher Jurvetson Venture Fund, on the innovative development of Russia: "The best thing the government can do is get out of the way."

27.05.2010