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Biomedicine

Binary drug for gene therapy

MGNC scientists are developing a gene therapy system in which both miRNAs that suppress the expression of unwanted genes and the surrounding "baskets" of DNA have a therapeutic effect.

14.12.2010
Cellular technologies

Beta cells from an intimate source

Insulin–producing cells were grown from spermatogonia - testicular stem cells. They did not have to be reprogrammed: during cultivation, the sperm progenitor cells themselves became pluripotent.

14.12.2010
Biomedicine

Putty for bones: on sale soon

A substance that is injected into a broken bone and restores its structure can completely displace metal structures and prostheses used in fractures.

14.12.2010
Biomedicine

How to mend the heart?

Worcester Polytechnic Institute researchers propose to mend damage to the heart and other organs with fibrin fibers seeded with stem cells.

14.12.2010
Cellular technologies

Human intestines from stem cells

The three-dimensional tissue grown from induced pluripotent stem cells performs all the functions of the normal human intestine, including the formation of intestinal stem cells.

13.12.2010
Cloning

How to get offspring from two individuals of the same sex?

By combining the genetic material of two male mice, scientists have obtained healthy offspring that do not carry a single gene obtained from a female. She became a surrogate mother in the full sense of the word.

13.12.2010
New in Gerontology

Free radicals and life extension: Get drunk on poison!

Nematodes with increased formation of free radicals, to the surprise of scientists, lived longer than ordinary ones. As well as worms that were fed a poisonous herbicide that kills plants by enhancing the synthesis of free radicals. Just please don't repeat the experiment on yourself!

10.12.2010
Prolonging youth

Another way to prolong life: to suppress the growth hormone activator

Mice in whose bodies (at an average age for this line) scientists disrupted the work of the hormone stimulating the synthesis of growth hormone, lived almost a quarter longer than the animals of the control group, and were more than 5 times less likely to get cancer.

10.12.2010
Cellular technologies

Nerve stem cells of the 999th sample

A new method of isolating a pure population of nerve stem cells promises significant progress in the treatment of diseases of the nervous system and spinal cord injuries.

09.12.2010
Other life sciences

From genomics to proteomics, metagenomics and beyond

Genomics are blueprints; proteomics are working molecular machines. And if we consider a person as a symbiotic superorganism, we will also have to do metagenomics – the study of genes (and proteins?) gut microbiota. But there is also metabolomics, and many others -omics…

08.12.2010
Cellular technologies

Induced pluripotent stem cells cured spinal cord injury

10 days after the transplantation of neurons grown from skin cells into the damaged cervical spinal cord, the monkey began to move its limbs, and six weeks later was able to walk independently.

08.12.2010
Various

To Comrade N. – the university and the person

Kazakhstan and Nazarbayev University personally should become a center for the export of education and scientific discoveries. The first to export will be developments in the field of life sciences in general and anti-aging in particular.

08.12.2010
Biomedicine

Internship at Procter &Gamble

Procter & Gamble invites Russian citizens, students of the last two years of study and graduate students specializing in natural sciences to take an internship at one of the European research centers.

08.12.2010
Biomedicine

Returnees: Alexander Kabanov, nanomedicine specialist

Director of the first academic nanomedical center in America and in the world – about plans to organize a laboratory in Russia, targeted delivery of drugs, nanoparticles in cancer treatment and much more.

07.12.2010
Grants and competitions

Skolkovo Innovation Award

The competition is designed to attract talented specialists and ideas that can give rise to startups that could potentially work in the Skolkovo Innovation Center.

07.12.2010
Genetic engineering

Minimal genome and new biology

Two articles in the November issue of the journal "Science and Life" are devoted to the creation of a bacterium with a synthetic genome and the prospects of creating a truly artificial life.

07.12.2010
Cellular technologies

Biomedical cell technologies: the draft law is ready

The draft law "On Biomedical cell Technologies", which has long been talked about in medical circles, is published on the website of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation.

06.12.2010
Grants and competitions

Photo contest "Innovations for the benefit of man"

Bayer and The Moscow Times invite creative young people from Russia aged 18 to 35 to take part in a photo contest on the theme "Innovations for the benefit of man".

06.12.2010