Charles Cantor: back in Moscow or how to use a epigenetic phenomenon in diagnostics

I would like to say a few words about recent lecture of Charles Cantor, called "How will molecular diagnostics change medical practice and healthcare?". This talk was about new approaches in noninvasive prenatal test by sequencing of maternal plasma DNA, and cancer diagnostics by analysing the level of circulating tumor DNA.

Charles Cantor — famous specialist in molecular genetics, biomedicine and biotechnology, he in6vented pulse field gel electrophoresis, and immuno-PCR — one of the most sensitive method for protein detection. The lecture was held on 26th of July at the The First Open Institute for Regenerative Medicine for Young Scientists.

Nowadays Charles Cantor is a chief of Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Chief Scientific Officer in Sequenom, Inc. It should be mentioned that in the long period of time has been director of the Department of Energy Human Genome Project. I’m sure that all people that had visited this meeting got a real pleasure. 
All of them had a chance to talk with Charles Cantor in informal atmosphere during the pizza-party (it's a tradition of The First Open Institute for Regenerative Medicine for Young Scientists).

So, I believe that Charles Cantor liked it too.

Let's get acquainted

Hello, World!

My name is Lucy, and I’m a graduate student at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, studying molecular biology. 

Back in school I was interested in the fundamental laws of nature, and the ability to apply them in life. That's why I was interested in science, especially biology, physics and chemistry. In the framework of modern biology, all of these disciplines are closely intertwined, and the study of biology directly to the study of man himself, and the possibility of bioengineering, transformation and control of biological processes in living systems. That's why I decided to study biology, mainly molecular biology.

I believe that at the moment there are four areas in biology  which could radically change our lives.

My goal is to shed the light to anti-aging researches, including regenerative technologies and news in gerontology, I will also write about interesting approaches in neurobiology and synthetic biology.

I have two facts for you.

The first - every minute all of you are getting older.

The second one - the science could change it.

Thanks to development of biology and medicine today we live much longer than people lived even 200 years ago. For example, in the 14-15th century the Englishman could expect 24.3 years of life.  In the 19th century lifespan reached 40 years. Similar figures showed and other countries in Europe and Asia, for example, in Japan a person at the end of the 18th century  could expect to live 32.2 years(J.C.Russell,"Late Ancient and Medieval Population).

We come to the point when we live longer, but with great loss of quality of life when we getting older. The longer people live, the more they face with age-related diseases such as cancer,  neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, arthritis, etc…By 2050, the number of elderly people in the world for the first time in the history of humanity has exceeded the number of young people. And this has an influence not only on man health, but on world economics too. 

Information from http://seekingalpha.com/

In ideal future men could repair themselves with the help of special procedures of intensive renewal of organs and tissues, and as result of all of this it will be a radical extension of lifetime of man and cancellation of aging process. That is how the scientists see the future, and this is not fiction.

Today this a great challenge for scientists especially for specialists in regenerative medicine and gerontology.

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