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Genetic engineering

Treatment of Down syndrome: the target was found, it remains to get into it

In mice with Down syndrome, in whose brains the human protein SNX27 was introduced by gene therapy, an increase in the number of glutamate receptors and normalization of brain functions were observed. However, the use of such a technique in relation to people is still far away.

26.03.2013
Other life sciences

Thinking is harmful

Thinking is actually harmful: researchers from the Gladstone Institute (USA) have found that DNA is damaged in active neurons – and the more active the nerve cells, the harder an individual thinks, the more it is damaged.

25.03.2013
Biomedicine

Give the body to repair

In a couple of decades, a person will be updated with the help of regenerative cellular and gene technologies, like a car that has got stuck in a car service station.

25.03.2013
Other life sciences

A warm liver is better than a cold one

The donor liver, placed, according to accepted standards, in a saline solution with a temperature of 4 degrees, can be stored for no more than 12 hours; in a new container that provides body temperature and blood supply to the organ – from 24 to 72.

25.03.2013
Grants and competitions

Postgraduate studies in Germany

Certified specialists in biology and bioengineering, bioinformatics, biophysics are invited to participate in the competition for admission to graduate school in Germany.

22.03.2013
Your health

Careful, statins!

High doses of potent drugs of the latest generation to lower cholesterol levels in the blood by a third increase the risk of acute kidney inflammation compared with less potent statins.

22.03.2013
Genetics

Parkinson's disease: are we treating or crippling?

Low expression of alpha-synuclein is associated with worse prognoses for the course of Parkinson's disease, which casts doubt on the efficacy and safety of new, considered promising, methods of treating this disease.

22.03.2013
Other life sciences

The more germs, the less diabetes

Countries with a low mortality rate from infections are characterized by an increased incidence of type 1 diabetes, which may be due to insufficient exposure to pathogens in the early stages of life for the full formation of the immune system.

22.03.2013
Innovative Russia

Sequencers will be produced in Russia

Zelenograd company NanoVision, created jointly with American partners, plans to develop a domestic sequencer – a device for analyzing DNA and RNA code.

21.03.2013
Biomedicine

Laboratory under the skin

A miniature subcutaneous implant that sends the data it collects directly to the attending physician's computer will simultaneously monitor the dynamics of concentrations of five clinically significant compounds in the patient's blood.

21.03.2013
Innovative Russia

Nanoceramic prostheses: the first swallow

The first operation in Russia using a unique Novosibirsk nanoceramic implant lasted only about an hour, but it was the result of many years of research. And this is a step forward not only for Russian, but also for world medicine.

21.03.2013
Prolonging youth

Greek coffee – the secret to a long life?

The secret of longevity may be much simpler than we think. It is quite possible that it lies in the morning portion of properly prepared coffee.

21.03.2013
Biomedicine

Tumor, kill yourself!

A new method of gene therapy of oncological diseases is the use of cancer cells for the synthesis of one of the components of natural antitumor immunity – interleukin-12. The activity of interleukin production can be regulated by a drug that includes the work of a gene injected into tumor cells.

21.03.2013
Grants and competitions

L'Oreal Scholarships – 2013

L'Oreal Russia, with the support of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO and the Russian Academy of Sciences, again appoints 10 scholarships for young Russian women scientists

21.03.2013
Biomedicine

Two hormones will help in the fight against obesity

After intravenous administration of a combination of glucagon and glucan-like peptide 1, the volunteers consumed almost 18% fewer calories than after placebo infusions or only one of the hormones.

20.03.2013