Neurodegenerative diseases are one of the most serious medical problems of our time. They are characterized by the unnoticed destruction of nerve cells, changes in a person's thinking and memory, depriving them of the most valuable thing – the ability to be themselves. Despite long-term research, medicine still has no radical ways to treat these pathologies, so scientists are looking for new approaches at the intersection of biotechnology, nanoscience, and molecular genetics.
How natural compounds can affect brain function, what opportunities nanotechnology opens for drug delivery, how microRNAs can "turn off" genes associated with neurodegenerative processes, what progress Ukrainian scientists have made in treating such diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, at the present stage? About this and more – in the new episode of the program "About Science. Competently," which is broadcast on the YouTube channel of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
The author and host of the program is the Vice President of the NAS of Ukraine, academician of the NAS of Ukraine Volodymyr Seminozhenko.
The guest of the studio is the Deputy Director of the Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Biological Sciences Serhiy Shulha.
Videos of all previous episodes of the program "About Science. Competently" – at the link.