Personal genome for the price of a car
The cost of sequencing a personal genome has crossed the $50,000 milestone
25.08.2009The cost of sequencing a personal genome has crossed the $50,000 milestone
25.08.2009The Nanog protein (its name comes from the Celtic "Tir Nan Og" – "land of eternal youth") is the last switch in the chain of reactions on the way of reprogramming embryonic stem cells into somatic ones.
25.08.2009"People are very disappointed – after all, they expected a lot from his research on stem cell cloning," one of the prosecutors said, commenting on his demand for a four–year prison term for the scientist.
24.08.2009To implement the project, a joint venture is being created, the participants of which will be RUSNANO and NTfarma LLC. It is planned to bring two types of vaccines and therapeutic biologics to the market.
27.07.2009The huge amount of information collected by the Biobank will allow us to establish the genetic causes of the most common chronic diseases – cancer, diabetes, coronary heart disease, etc. – as well as risk factors for their development.
24.07.2009By changing the mass fraction of the dye, you can change the color temperature of white (from cold to warm shade), and when changing the proportions of fluorescent DNA molecules, the light bulb can produce almost any color stream, from blue to orange.
23.07.2009The release of the drug with new lenses can last up to a hundred days. During the tests, the lenses provided an effective concentration of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin throughout this period.
23.07.2009"Experts have long known that p38MAPK is involved in the development of inflammatory diseases, and clinical trials of pharmacological methods to limit its activity have already begun," notes the lead author of the work D.Bulavin. "Probably, similar methods can be used in the fight against aging."
23.07.2009Scientists have long assumed that there is a connection between type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. Now, after a new role of humanin in glucose metabolism has been discovered, indirect confirmation of this guess has appeared.
23.07.2009Scientists from the University of Berkeley (California) suggest using mobile phones as microscopes or "mobiscopes" (CellScope).
23.07.2009The new system can be used to obtain images in medicine and biology. This is due to the fact that "blinking" nanostars provide a very good ratio between the received periodic signal and external noise.
23.07.2009Companies engaged in developments in the field of biotechnology and medicine received the most investments ($1.5 billion, 41%). Software developers are in second place in terms of the number of funds raised. But this is in the USA...
22.07.2009The study was conducted on mice. This was the first attempt to use induced pluripotent cells (iPS) to treat the heart.
22.07.2009Alzheimer's disease developed in 2.8% of patients who were injected with immunoglobulin, and in 4.8% of those who had never been treated with this drug.
22.07.2009Only four habits are needed for a healthy lifestyle and active longevity – quitting smoking, daily consumption of vegetables and fruits, maintaining an optimal weight and little physical activity. But only 8% of Americans follow these golden rules.
20.07.2009The oldest inhabitant of the planet, one of the three surviving British veterans of the First World War, Briton Henry Allingham (Henry Allingham) died on Saturday at the 114th year of life.
20.07.2009"During the training, these dogs have shown that they can detect drugs better than ordinary bloodhounds," said a customs officer at Incheon Airport, where three of the six bloodhounds were assigned to serve.
20.07.2009Japanese women live an average of 86 years, which is a world record today.
17.07.2009The new exchange sector – the Innovation and Investment Market – is designed to help attract investment, primarily in small and medium-cap companies, companies in the innovative sector of the Russian economy.
15.07.2009"Most studies of the effect of alcohol on health eventually produce a two–horned curve – that is, the risk is increased for people who do not drink at all and for alcoholics, and for people who drink alcohol moderately, it decreases," comments William Thies, head of the scientific and medical department of the Alzheimer's Association.
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