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Other life sciences

Canine diagnostics

By smell, dogs can detect cancer of the intestine, skin, gallbladder, lung, prostate, ovary and breast and warn the diabetic owner about an excessive decrease in glucose levels.

02.02.2011
Biomedicine

A new drug for parkinsonism?

Tests on mice have shown the high effectiveness of a potential cure for Parkinson's disease developed by specialists of the Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry.

02.02.2011
Healthy skepticism

Molecular geneticists sing and dance

The number of views of the clip “Bad Project”, a parody of Lady Gaga's hit “Bad Romance”, dedicated to the hard work of molecular geneticists, has long exceeded one and a half million. Join us!

02.02.2011
Other life sciences

Doping for memory: insulin-like growth factor

IGF-2 injections improve long-term memory and prevent forgetting. But this is in rats, and it is enough for people to remember the rule "repetition is the mother of learning." Then you will have enough internal reserves of insulin-like growth factor.

01.02.2011
Nanotechnology

Drug delivery using stealth nanotechnology

"Stealth technology" – coating with colloidal nanoparticles – makes microscopic polymer bubbles containing liquid medicinal substances more durable and "invisible" to the immune system.

01.02.2011
Exhibitions and conferences

The Sixth Kazan Venture Fair

The acceptance of applications for participation in the VI Kazan Venture Fair, which will be held on April 22, 2011, has begun.

01.02.2011
Exhibitions and conferences

International Student Congress on Biomedicine

This annual congress, scheduled for June 7-10, 2011 (Groningen, the Netherlands) is one of the largest student biomedical congresses in the world.

31.01.2011
Biotechnologies - into life

Cancer treatment: from early diagnosis to gene therapy and preventive vaccine

Sergey Larin, Head of the Laboratory of Gene Therapy of the IBG RAS, spoke about the results and future of the project "Development of technologies for genodiagnostics and gene therapy of cancer and production of prototypes of test kits and gene-cell antitumor vaccines".

31.01.2011
Controversial

Diabetes treatment: not just insulin?

Researchers believe that the development of drugs that block glucagon or its receptors in the human body can dramatically reduce the need for insulin in patients and prevent the development of diabetes symptoms.

31.01.2011
New in Gerontology

Sirtuins, aging and cancer

New data on the role of the aging-related sirtuin Sirt3 in the development of breast cancer in older women.

31.01.2011
Genetics

Orangutan genome: details

The orangutan became the third of the higher primates whose genomes were decoded, after humans and chimpanzees. So far, experts have conducted only a preliminary analysis of the data obtained, but they have already managed to find a lot of interesting things in them.

28.01.2011
Your health

Sleep and memory

V.M. Kovalzon, a specialist in the field of physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology of sleep, never scolds students who fall asleep at his lectures. However, none of the listeners fell asleep at Kovalzon's public lecture "Sleep and Memory".

28.01.2011
Other life sciences

A gift to oncologists: breast-on-a-chip

"Breast on a chip" will allow testing new methods for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer using magnetic nanoparticles.

27.01.2011
Other life sciences

Life in the computer

The initiator and head of the C. elegans organism modeling project tells how and why scientists create computer models of living beings.

27.01.2011