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What is the 2050 meeting eaten with?
How will our food industry change in forty years? What of the delicious and healthy will our descendants get?
28.12.2010- English version
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Other life sciences
Breast cancer: another target?
The P-Rex1 protein is overexpressed in many cancer cell lines and may be the next target after ErbB receptors for the development of new drugs for the treatment of breast cancer.
27.12.2010
New in Gerontology
Rapamycin target and aging: new data
Scientists have linked the hyperactivity of the mechanistic target of rapamycin – the mTORC1 cellular pathway – with a decrease in ketone production, which is a physiological marker of aging in mice.
24.12.2010
Cellular technologies
Tissue-engineered trachea transplantation: now in Russia
For the first time in Russia, a trachea was transplanted to a patient, "assembled" from a donor "frame" and her own cells, from which all tissues will subsequently grow.
24.12.2010
Various
Russian biotechnology represented by one of the...
Interview with Dmitry Morozov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the biotech company "BIOCAD".
24.12.2010
Your health
Placebo without cheating
Even if you mark the medications given to patients as "placebo" (with a detailed explanation of what it is), the pills will still have a significant effect.
24.12.2010
Exhibitions and conferences
Facial rejuvenation: aesthetic surgery, cosmetology, cellular technologies
International Symposium "Aesthetic Surgery and Cosmetology in Facial and Periorbital rejuvenation" and seminar "Cellular Technologies in Plastic and Reconstructive surgery" (Moscow, February 3-5, 2011).
24.12.2010
Genetics
We are not only a little Neanderthals, but also a little Denisovans
Melanesians inhabiting the islands to the northeast of Australia received 4-6% of their genes from Denisovans. If we consider that the Neanderthals also left a trace in the genomes of modern humans, the total contribution of the "cousins" will be about 8%.
23.12.2010
Various
Scientific results of the decade: life sciences rulezzz!
In a selection of the ten most significant trends, ideas and technological trends that have emerged over the past ten years, according to the journal Science, exactly half relate to the life sciences.
23.12.2010
Genetic engineering
How to make a boy out of a girl and teach mice to sing?
Christmas gifts from genetic engineers: they turned a female mouse into a male by activating the SOX3 gene in the genitals of a developing embryo with two X chromosomes, and (quite by accident!) they bred a breed of singing mice.
23.12.2010
Nanotechnology
Multimodal nanocomplexes will help to find and destroy cancer
Nanoparticles with a complex composition – multimodal nanocomplexes – will allow both to visualize the tumor in complementary ways, and to deliver therapeutic agents to cancer cells.
22.12.2010
Various
Note to the businessman
About the future of JSC "Rusnano" – from the first person of the state corporation
Rusnano is being transformed from a state corporation into a joint-stock company. Anatoly Chubais hopes that after that there will be more reasons to call Russia an innovative country.
22.12.2010
Exhibitions and conferences
Longevity and Quality of Life Medicine
The VII International Conference "Longevity and Quality of Life Medicine" invites specialists who are interested in anti-aging issues, strategy of preventive and restorative medicine, means and methods of geroprotection.
22.12.2010
Genetics
Personal genomic machine: a DNA sequencer the size of a printer
Contrary to the name "personal genomic machine", the desktop automated DNA sequencer is not intended for medical diagnostics. Its market (at least for now) is research organizations.
22.12.2010
Genetic engineering
"Zinc fingers" for gene modification – fast and inexpensive
Scientists from the University of Minnesota have collected an extensive archive of zinc fingers – nuclease enzymes necessary for manipulating genes. From their blocks, any scientist can easily get the zinc-containing nucleases he needs in less than a week.
21.12.2010
Other life sciences
Anatomy online
With the help of the virtual "anatomical theater" Google Body Browser, you can see the human body at different levels – the nervous and circulatory systems, skeleton, internal organs, musculature – and from different angles of view.
21.12.2010
Various
Implantable microchip against pain syndrome
Australian scientists have developed an ultra-compact microchip, implantation of which can help in the fight against chronic pain syndrome in severe neurological pathology.
21.12.2010
Biomedicine
Biocompatible implants for bone restoration
Due to the factors of bone tissue growth, the implant not only serves as a support on which the bone grows, but in itself becomes an active principle that initiates the formation of bone tissue.
21.12.2010
Biomedicine
Nanosurgeons will operate on the tumor
Single-stranded DNA aptamers are able to bind to receptors on the surface of tumor cells, and magnetic nanoparticles connected to them allow the tumor to be torn to shreds.
20.12.2010