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Mice had their lives extended. A queue for a person?

During the experiment, geneticists managed to extend the life span of mice by 20% and reduce the number of age-related diseases by blocking the production of the protein S6 Kinase 1 (S6K1).

02.10.2009
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Cancer treatment: an encouraging result

Researchers from the Sydney biotech company EnGeneIC cured cancer with drugs in a "wrapper" from the membrane of bacteria. Scientists plan to start testing on cancer-stricken volunteers within a month.

30.06.2009
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Urine analysis instead of biopsy

After kidney transplantation, the patient has to undergo a painful biopsy procedure every six months, or even more often. The Russian Scientific Center of Surgery has developed a method for determining the danger of rejection of a transplanted kidney by protein markers in urine.

26.06.2009
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Another gene regulator of cholesterol levels

Vladimir SHABALIN, Director of the Gerontology Research Institute, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, knows all the secrets of aging and life extension and willingly shares them.

12.02.2008
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Russian-Israeli Nanotechnology Foundation

Leonid Melamed, CEO of Rusnano, said that Israel's advantage is a significant advance in nanotechnology, an orientation towards international cooperation and a significant number of Russian–speaking scientists – representatives of the Soviet scientific school. The Russian side offers "uniquely favorable conditions" to foreign innovators.

09.06.2009
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Bio-investments

In 2008, pharmaceutical and biotech companies in the United States spent a record amount on scientific research.

07.04.2009
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Will stem cells restore hearing?

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have managed to transform embryonic stem cells into hair sensory cells of the inner ear. If we can find a way to deliver new cells to the inner ear and implant them correctly, then the possibility of complete restoration of hearing will become a reality.

03.04.2009
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"Designer" protein for oxygen transfer

The oxygen binding characteristics of artificial protein are similar to those of natural globins with distal histidines, except that molecular oxygen (O2) binds more strongly than carbon monoxide (CO). This property of the new protein can be very useful when creating artificial blood.

30.03.2009
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Per tooth

The meat samples printed on the ISS will be as compact as in the experiment that took place in December – a few millimeters.

05.03.2019
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All - Russian search

The purpose of the all–Russian program to search for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy is early diagnosis of the disease.

22.11.2018
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Cheaper and less toxic

A young scientist of PSNIU Sergey Shipilovskikh received a grant from the Russian Academy of Sciences for the development of a new class of antibiotics.

15.10.2018
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Getting ready to grow "female spermatozoa"

In the future, "female" spermatozoa grown in the laboratory can be used for artificial insemination of eggs. In this case, the biological "father" of the resulting child will be a donor woman, from whose cells spermatozoa were obtained.

04.02.2008
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Nanotechnology at MSU is a gold mine

"It feels like I have not been to the institute, but to some gold mines, distinguished by the supernatural content of gold and the supernatural scale of the deposit itself" (A.Chubais - after getting acquainted with nanotechnology at Moscow State University).

20.11.2008
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Another victory of "open science"

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation managed to reach an agreement with Science magazine. For the first time in its more than a century history, the publication has allowed publications to be freely available.

16.02.2017