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Vyatka biopharmaceutics: the project is almost ready

Production complex in the village . Levintsy of the Kirov region will produce pharmaceutical substances and ready-made dosage forms of diagnostic and therapeutic proteins, including monoclonal antibodies and antibody-like proteins obtained using genetically engineered technologies.

Folic acid improves sperm quality

One of the essential problems of logic elements based on ribozymes, enzymes or optical materials is the different nature of the incoming and outgoing signal, unlike electronic systems that use a common input and output signal (electron). American researchers have tried to work around this problem by constructing logic gates based on DNA.

Do you want to go to Skolkovo? Call right now!

You can ask your questions by phone (free of charge from all regions), by fax and by e-mail. They will be answered by members of the Skolkovo Foundation team.

The revenue of Rusnano project companies in 2012 should reach $1 billion

The income of the Rusnano design companies from the sale of nanotechnology products in 2012 should reach about $ 1 billion, the head of the state corporation Anatoly Chubais said.

Check the prostate, brother!

Doctors, exaggerating the role of heredity in the development of prostate cancer, recommend that the brothers of sick men check the condition of the prostate gland and more often detect the disease in the early stages.

Artificial antigen-presenting cells stimulate immunity better than real ones

A well- fed belly is deaf to Alzheimer 's

People 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.

Will Alphafetoprotein protect against breast cancer?

Alphafetoprotein, 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.

Zygomatic bones from stem cells

First, the boy was transplanted small parts of donor bones, which became the foundation of future cheekbones. Then, stem cells taken from the patient's own fatty tissues were injected into the holes drilled in the allografts.

They'll put you in jail – and you don't fake it!

"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.

Induced pluripotent stem cells against infarction

The study was conducted on mice. This was the first attempt to use induced pluripotent cells (iPS) to treat the heart.

Polymer shell for gene delivery

Such a shell stabilizes the particles, protecting DNA from nuclease enzymes, provides solubility in water and simplifies the transport of genes through the cell membrane.

Glycans as oncosuppressors

Scientists from the Burnham Medical Research Institute have discovered that one of the types of polysaccharides that make up cell membranes can act as oncosuppressors in breast and prostate cancer.

Anti-anti-oncogene: Trim24 vs p53

One of the main functions of the p53 protein is to counteract the replication of potentially oncogenic cells. Trim24 attaches a "black label" to it – the ubiquitin protein, and p53 is destroyed under the influence of specialized protein complexes – proteasomes.

Again induced pluripotent stem cells – this time pork

For the first time, Dr. Lei Xiao and the team of the laboratory of the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, which he directs, managed to obtain "artificial" pig stem cells. As in the case of induced pluripotent human stem cells, pig tissue cells pass into an undifferentiated state under the influence of certain proteins.

One type of stem cell is good, and two are better

The tendency to form tumors is a serious problem on the way to the use of embryonic stem cells for the treatment of a variety of diseases and injuries. Malignancy of embryonic stem cells can be avoided if bone marrow stem cells are transplanted at the same time.

The risk of Alzheimer's disease can be predicted at a young age

These findings are of great interest. However, this does not mean that Alzheimer's disease necessarily begins to develop in a group of young and healthy volunteers who took part in the experiment. To understand whether differences in brain activity in people with a type of ApoE4 gene can really serve as an indicator of the development of Alzheimer's disease over time, only new research will help.

Be mutually polite and helpful!

Managers who are considered polite and pleasant people by subordinates and colleagues succeed more.

Biotechnology-2009

The Jubilee Fifth Moscow International Congress "Biotechnology: state and Prospects of Development" and the Seventh International Specialized Exhibition "World of Biotechnology 2009" began their work on March 16 this year.