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How venture investors evaluate startups

This article is intended more for venture investors, but it is also useful for startups to find out how venture investors evaluate startups when investing in them at an early stage.

To live to be a hundred years old is easier than you thought

The contribution of genes to life expectancy is only 25%, and the chances of changing the second hundred are not only in relatively healthy people, but also in patients with various chronic diseases.

Hopes and promises of stem cells

One of the most sensational scientific achievements of the outgoing year was the development of methods for genetic reprogramming of human somatic cells, converting them into full-fledged analogues of embryonic stem cells.

How to prolong youth?

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.

Not only normal, but also cancerous stem cells were found in the liver

The results of comparing the genetic profiles of cancer and normal stem cells indicate that some experimental drugs designed to treat other types of cancer and currently undergoing trials can help in the fight against liver cancer.

Innovations on the laboratory table

The laboratory is already ready to accept orders for biotesting. There is everything for conducting experiments on the stream – a wide arsenal of high-quality techniques, qualified specialists, an authoritative brand of biofac.

Stem cells come out by the hour

If mesenchymal stromal cells rarely go beyond the bones on their own, then the release of hematopoietic stem cells into the blood occurs regularly, we can say – strictly by the hour.

Three, six, code

Two nucleotides are connected by a strong covalent bond, and with the third and the amino acid – by weak physico-chemical bonds. To strengthen this connection, we need another three – complementary. It will turn out to be a six, which will be supported by hydrogen bonds between complementary nucleotides.

microRNA – the further into the forest, the more firewood

microRNAs are involved in the processes of individual development of the body, including temporary control, death, proliferation and differentiation of cells, embryonic laying of organs.

Stem cells: How to distinguish science from myth-making? (2)

I advise you to be wary of representatives of pseudoscience and mythologists who have flooded our scientific space. Stem cells have a huge potential for the treatment of many diseases, but we are still looking for optimal opportunities for their proper use.

Hereditary diseases: it is possible to identify now, to cure – not yet soon

Until recently, mainly monogenic diseases that occur when one gene is disrupted have been studied. But most hereditary diseases are associated with simultaneous disruption of several genes and certain environmental influences.

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Stem cells: How to distinguish science from myth-making? (1)

The information circulating in the media that scientists have received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for discoveries in the field of stem cells is rekindling interest in mysterious cells, both among specialists and among ordinary people. Since there are already a lot of myths on the Internet and scientists dealing with this problem, there are also a certain number of charlatans who use the moment to earn money and fame.

World Community Grid: Join the Distributed Computing network!

There are about 650 million personal computers in the world, and most of them use only a small part of their power when working. At the same time, these untapped resources can be used for the benefit of all mankind. To this end, in 2004, the World Community Grid system was created – the largest global computing system for solving the most important humanitarian problems.

The best cure for hypertension is sausage!

British scientists (C) have found that daily consumption of nitrates, which are part of beet juice, as well as green leafy vegetables, helps to reduce blood pressure. It would be nice to check the effect on the pressure of sausages, sausages and other conditionally-food products, in which nitrites are added to preserve the pink color.

The case of Growth Hormone

To date, more than a hundred cases of death have been registered in France in young people who were given growth hormone in childhood. Today, 16 years after the first death, the families of the victims are demanding justice at the trial that began in Paris.

Human evolution continues: new evidence

A group of French and Spanish scientists led by population geneticist Luis Quintana-Murzi has discovered new evidence in favor of continuing human evolution.

The shelf of genes has decreased

By the time the "draft" sequence of the human genome was published in 2001, the figure 35,000 was generally accepted, but now genetic catalogs include approximately 24,500 genes. A new bioinformatic study shows that the number of "real" genes is even smaller: about 20,500.

Mario Capecci: features of an individual approach

Mario Capecci has had a fantastic academic career. Today, the knockout method, of which Capecci was one of the fathers, is already a classic of molecular biology.

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