Berlusconi's good intentions
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi intends to fund research to increase life expectancy to 120 years.
13.09.2010Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi intends to fund research to increase life expectancy to 120 years.
13.09.2010The premiere of the opera about Alzheimer's disease, written by the composer of Russian origin Elena Langer, took place in London.
23.07.2010Experiments with transgenic mice that have begun in the USA should help to find out what affects the fat content of milk.
11.06.2010In 2009, the global biotechnology industry turned a profit for the first time in the history of its development.
06.05.2010The assessment of the probability of developing breast cancer based on long-known factors turned out to be correct in 58% of cases. The addition of the ten most common genetic risk factors to the model increased the accuracy of the forecast by less than 4%.
19.03.2010For the first time, a new study has identified specific variants of the TERC gene responsible for premature aging and telomere shortening.
08.02.2010A "wet computer" based on elements that mimic some properties of living brain neurons will be able to work in liquid media – for example, inside the body.
12.01.2010People with a high concentration of leptin in the blood – the "satiety hormone" – significantly reduced the likelihood of developing Alzheimer's disease and other types of senile dementia.
18.12.2009Alphafetoprotein, which is synthesized by embryo tissues, suppresses the development of breast cancer during pregnancy. This protein can theoretically be used as a means for the prevention and treatment of breast cancer.
27.11.2009otik," it says, "but yoghurts have nothing to do with it."
18.02.2008The developers hope that in the near future "powdered" cutlets-semi-finished products, sausages and even minced meat will appear on the shelves of the capital's stores.
20.10.2009The technique developed by scientists at the California Institute of Technology was called "opacity suppression by optical reversal of the wavefront" (turbidity suppression by optical phase conjugation, TSOPC).
15.02.2008Scientists at the Technical University of Munich have developed a technology with blockbuster potential: to protect protein preparations from destruction in the body, their molecules are coated with a polypeptide shell.
23.09.2009The most accurate of the biomarkers was leucine-rich alpha-2-glycoprotein (leucine-rich alpha-2-glycoprotein, LRG). According to researchers, the concentration of this protein in the urine increases in proportion to the severity of appendicitis.
24.06.2009The quality of medical examinations conducted at a distance with the help of modern means of communication is not much inferior to real visits of doctors.
18.05.2009Further tests allowed to improve the invention, its interactive gaming table and information display, as well as to form a set of 20 computer games that train and regulate the most important mental skills, stimulate social perception. These games, among other things, are fascinating in themselves.
18.05.2009Compliance with the regime of children's sleep can be an important, almost cost-free, measure to prevent childhood obesity.
20.05.2008Researchers from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have proposed a method to reduce the risk of developing tumors using embryonic stem cells – suppressing the synthesis of a protein called survivin.
07.05.2009Scientists from the University of Massachusetts have developed a new – oral – method of targeted delivery of small interfering RNAs (miRNAs). The method was tested on mice and showed excellent results in suppressing the inflammatory process, similar to what develops in humans with a number of diseases.
07.05.2009The first cloned puppy was born in 2005, and dogs have been cloned more than once since then, but now, before the transfer of the nucleus, the fibroblast culture was infected with a modified retrovirus with an embedded gene of the red fluorescent anemone protein. Five glowing dogs feel good and glow like Kremlin stars under an ultraviolet lamp.
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