Hereditary skin diseases have evolved in recent years from a secondary topic to an important focus of basic and clinical research. There is no doubt that genetics has an important role in solving the pathogenesis of many common skin diseases with a family predisposition, as well as in the development of new ways to treat these diseases.
18.12.2008Genetic fingerprinting is used both in criminology and medicine, but the greatest flow of examinations for biological kinship still concerns purely domestic problems related to inheritance, alimony and other material benefits.
18.12.2008About one percent of the inhabitants of the Old World are immune to the immunodeficiency virus due to a genetic mutation. There are other useful mutations that allow even with HIV infection to postpone the development of the disease for many years.
01.12.2008The State Duma has legalized the introduction of state genomic registration in the country. The Interior Ministry believes that this will increase the effectiveness of the fight against crime.
25.11.2008The complete genomes of two more people have been deciphered: a Nigerian and a Chinese. A detailed analysis of the first "color" genomes is still ahead, but the speed and cheapness of decoding already promise the imminent advent of the era of personal genomics. What this era will look like is unclear.
07.11.2008We have sorted out the ancestral homeland of the "Indo-Europeans", who turned out to be Arias, they are also Proto-Slavs. And where is the ancestral home of the "Proto-Indo-Europeans"? What is the picture of the flows, migrations of "Proto-Indo-Europeans" that led to the appearance of the Aryans, the Proto-Slavs in their historical homeland? This is the second part of our investigation.
27.10.2008Haplogroups and haplotypes do not determine the shape of the skull or nose, hair color, physical or mental characteristics of a person in any way. But they forever bind the carrier of the haplotype to a certain human race, at the beginning of which there was a patriarch of the family, whose offspring survived and lives today, unlike millions of other broken genealogical lines.
16.10.2008At the current stage of development of functional genomics, it has become possible to determine which genes are expressed in different parts of the body — "work" and which "sleep". And not just to determine, but to obtain three—dimensional images of the distribution of gene activity in all organs and tissues - to create so-called atlases of gene expression.
16.10.2008The Eternal Youth Foundation was represented at the conference by the author of this article, who made a poster presentation "Analysis of gene polymorphisms by pharmacy biochip in newborn and elderly people from the North-West region of Russia".
10.10.2008Gene diseases are an unavoidable property of all living things. Most of the genetic diseases are associated with genes inherited from the most primitive organisms. Billions of years of evolution have not made individual genes or their functions more resistant to mutations.
02.10.2008The legendary James Dewey Watson, the one who, together with Francis Crick, proposed a model of the DNA molecule in the form of a double helix, came to Moscow at the invitation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and his lecture at the House of Scientists on Prechistenka was organized by the Dynasty Foundation.
14.07.2008The role of Sirtuin family genes as potential longevity genes extends to mammals as well.
11.07.2008Studies on model objects have revealed a whole family of genes that affect the lifespan of various organisms.
11.07.2008To date, significant progress in the study of aging genetics has been achieved thanks to work on various model objects.
11.07.2008Genetic regulation of individual development (ontogenesis) is associated with the sequential implementation of various genetic programs in time, ending with the death of an individual.
11.07.2008A complex system of regulation of the body at the DNA level, a person may be obliged to retroviruses – distant relatives of HIV. It seems that they gave the "emperor gene" of primates, which controls gene expression in monkeys and humans, its current status.
11.07.2008The Nobel laureate, who turned 80, stressed that he had never lost interest in science. At the same time, to the surprise of many, Watson stated that he practically did not do it all those years while he was in charge of the laboratory.
08.07.2008How does temperature affect the sex of the embryo? The balance of sex hormones plays a decisive role here. During the formation of the body, sex hormones are responsible for the development of sex signs. In many organisms, female hormones are derivatives of male hormones. Certain enzymes are responsible for the transformation. It is their activity that may depend on temperature.
03.07.2008Scientists have modeled the spread of potential homosexuality genes. The authors believe that these same genes are associated with increased fertility in women and represent a way to control and maintain balance in the entire population. Roughly speaking, the more gays there are on the planet, the more fertile women are, and vice versa.
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