Creating memories
A new line of genetically modified mice allowed scientists at the Scripps Research Institute to identify cellular contacts formed during the memorization process.
26.02.2008A new line of genetically modified mice allowed scientists at the Scripps Research Institute to identify cellular contacts formed during the memorization process.
26.02.2008New techniques that provide simultaneous analysis of hundreds of thousands of genetic markers provide results sufficient to draw conclusions about interactions between human populations and prehistoric human migrations with a much higher degree of reliability than was previously possible.
26.02.2008"Y-chromosomal Adam" and "mitochondrial Eve" are not real people, but virtual points from which the branching of the molecular family tree of mankind begins.
26.02.2008Now any of us can determine our ancestry to the progenitors of mankind. However, not biblical, but molecular-genetic – "mitochondrial Eve" and "Y-chromosomal Adam".
26.02.2008Several research groups are trying to determine which of the human races' genomes contain more mutations and how dangerous these mutations are for its representatives.
22.02.2008Many of those who want to start their own business believe in a whole bunch of myths about business. The book "Illusions of Entrepreneurship: Myths that Entrepreneurs, Investors and politicians live by" destroys the most common of them.
22.02.2008Venture investors evaluate startups offered for investment on all these three components in order to get an impression of the startup's prospects and the ability of its team to achieve its stated goals.
22.02.2008Since I regularly encounter references to various stages of startup development in articles about startups, venture investments and venture investors, and I don't want to explain what I mean every time, I decided to present them in a separate article and provide them with a brief description.
22.02.2008Today there are about 4 thousand heads of cloned cattle in the world. They are used mainly for breeding and while products from clones are not officially sold anywhere – although there are incredible stories that "cloned" products have already hit the market in the past.
21.02.2008Many people believe that a business plan for a startup, especially one at the pre-startup stage of development, is a fiction that it is not necessary to do it, and if it is done, then you can do with formal words. However, such startups remain, as a rule, without investments.
21.02.2008The increase in life expectancy and the aging of the population of developed countries have increased interest in gerontology, and above all, in the study of the primary mechanisms of aging of organisms and populations, as well as factors determining life expectancy.
20.02.2008A new generation of DNA sequencing technologies, which allows the reading of genetic texts with unprecedented speed and productivity, has found wide application in biomedical research and has become a prerequisite for impressive scientific achievements.
20.02.2008Today it has already been proven that champion athletes have unique qualities, which are determined, among other things, by their genotype. Scientists are trying to find out what factors their abilities depend on and whether it is possible to predict the achievement of high sports results by a particular person.
19.02.2008The First International Congress "EurasiaBio-2008" will be held in Moscow on April 24-25, 2008.
19.02.2008To date, none of the major league venture investors are looking at Russia seriously enough. But if there are a couple, three successful IPOs tomorrow, then the boom will begin just as it began in Israel or Ireland.
19.02.2008The concept of phenoptosis makes us look at the problem of aging in a different way. What if this is the way nature forces us to leave, making room for the young? What if this slow extinction, as well as the apoptosis program, is embedded in the form of a genetic program in our genome, and its main biological meaning is the acceleration of evolution? These questions allowed us to formulate a theory of programmed aging as an instrument of evolution.
19.02.2008It is highly likely that probiotics became the cause of death of the patients participating in the clinical trial," the Utrecht University Clinic said in a press release, "but yoghurts have nothing to do with it.
18.02.2008Students of the Timiryazev Academy and a number of other Russian universities will no longer dissect animals. Inhumane vivisection was replaced by videotapes and computer programs.
18.02.2008To carry out work within the framework of a joint project on the development of personalized medicine, which received a $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health last October, scientists use tissue microchips, pattern recognition algorithms and network supercomputer computing.
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