experience

 Lecture “ Alive cells –drugs - from medical, pharmaceutical and ethical aspects  Stem cells became the serious of scientific research, and the potential use of stem cells in research and in treating disease.  Stem cells became in same cases dangerous for patients.

SIA Silvanols is a pharmaceutical company. It was established on 8 December The founder of the company, chemistry professor Ieva Leimane. Company was named after the discovery by the outstanding Latvian chemist –A. Ošiņš. Company produces more than 70 differenet products of medicine, made on herbal base.

Why do we become old? It depends on gens, synthesis of different proteins in cells, life style, and We have got lectures from Latvian University Biomedical Research centre V. Baumanis, M. Dambrova from the Institute of Organic Synthesis and I. Čakstiņa from Stradins University Hospital Cells Transplantation Centre Look at the : m/watch?v=lc2tVZXxO3E

Visiting lectures in European Community house in Science cafe What does tell us our genes? Latvia from is participating in Human genome research and it collects genome database (more 5000 units) of the Latvian population, which is used on scientific purposes to find out causes of several diseases, like as cancer,hypertension etc. The lectures were from Latvian University Biomedical Research centre J. Kloviņš, and L. Korņejeva

We got opinion of different work and used methods of biochemical laboratories in hospital.

Genetically modified food – pro or contra? Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can be defined as organisms in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally. The technology is often called “modern biotechnology” or “gene technology”, sometimes also “recombinant DNA technology” or “genetic engineering”. It allows selected individual genes to be transferred from one organism into another, also between non-related species. How can people make informed decisions about genetically modified food ? It’s more difficult to evaluate the safety of crop-derived foods than individual chemical, drug, or food additives. Crop foods are more complex and their composition varies according to differences in growth and agronomic conditions. We can listen to following experts: The Dean of Faculty of Biology of Latvian University – N. Rostoks, representative of Ministry of Agriculture – I. Aleksejeva and representative of Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment "BIOR" –I. Rodze.

The aim was to improve practical skill for electrophoresis, get acquaintance with research work in different protein laboratories and subdivision of scientific work in centre.