Biomarkers helped solving the mystery of 500-million-year-old macroorganisms

25-Jan-2018 - A postgraduate student of the Faculty of Geology of MSU, working with an international scientific group, participated in chemical analysis of biomarkers -- compounds that remained after the decomposition of organic remains of the genus Beltanelliformis. These organisms populated the Earth in the ...

The carotenoid transfer between 2 proteins

08-Sep-2017 - Specialists from the biological faculty of Moscow State University have studied the way the photoactive orange carotenoid protein (OCP) exchanges carotenoid with proteins of similar structure. The discovery will boost the development of OCP-based antioxidant drugs aimed at protecting healthy ...

Peptide complex formed in the brain is responsible for Alzheimer's disease

17-Jul-2017 - Members of the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine at the Lomonosov Moscow State University have determined the structure of a peptide complex, formed in the brain at the early stages of Alzheimer's disease progression. The research results will contribute to the rational design of compounds, capable ...

Nanozymes - efficient antidote against pesticides

09-Mar-2017 - Members of the Faculty of Chemistry of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have developed novel nanosized agents - nanozymes, which could be used as efficient protective and antidote modalities against the impact of neurotoxic organophosphorous compounds: pesticides and chemical warfare ...

More light on cancer

Scientists created nanoparticles to highlight cancer cells

23-May-2016 - The group of Russian and French researchers, with the participation of scientists from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, has succeeded to synthesize nanoparticles of ultrapure silicon, which exhibited the property of efficient photoluminescence, i.e., secondary light emission after ...

Skin cancer teams up with Sonic the Hedgehog

10-Mar-2016 - Basal cell carcinoma (also known as basalioma or basal cell cancer -- BCC) is the most common, and the 5th expensive cancer type to cure, making about 90% of malignant skin tumors. Among risk factors there are genetic malfunctions, appearance of freckles, x-rays and radiation, burns or use of ...

Autoimmune diseases gonna be defeated

02-Mar-2016 - An international team of scientists led by the Lomonosov Moscow State University group made a significant step in creating a new type of drug for treatment of autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's diseaase. The work was published in PNAS. Scientists from Russia, Germany ...

Biologists discovered a new facet of the mechanism of protein biosynthesis

25-Jan-2016 - A significant proportion of our genetic information encoded in DNA is expressed in a living cell as proteins. In order to synthesize a protein, this information needs to be converted from nucleotide sequence to the language of amino acids. The process of the decoding is called translation, and it ...

Insects passed 'the Turing Test'

23-Sep-2015 - In 1952, the legendary British mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing proposed a model, which assumes formation of complex patterns through chemical interaction of two diffusing reagents. Russian scientists managed to prove that the corneal surface nanopatterns in 23 insect orders completely ...

Novel DNA repair mechanism brings new horizons

Researchers discovered a new mechanism of DNA repair, which will help to treat and to prevent diseases in the future

07-Jul-2015 - The DNA molecule is chemically unstable giving rise to DNA lesions of different nature. That is why DNA damage detection, signaling and repair, collectively known as the DNA damage response, are needed. A group of researchers, lead by Vasily M. Studitsky, professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State ...