Life - in a cage, or Medicines within us

Scientists predict that in the next decade, the use of cellular technologies will increase at least threefold. What awaits us ahead, and when will we be able to use the full potential of the elementary unit of life - the cell?
In this book, Sergey Kiselev, a geneticist and doctor of biological sciences, reflects on the history of cell research, reveals modern achievements in understanding how life is structured and how much a person can control it. He also shows possible fields where the achievements of molecular and cell biology in recent years can be applied in practice. Much attention is paid to gene therapy, treatment of oncological and other diseases, cloning, and stem cell research.

Sergey Lvovich Kiselev is a doctor of biological sciences, professor, head of the epigenetics laboratory at the N. I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He is one of the creators of the first Russian and third in the world gene-therapy drug for the treatment of ischemic conditions.
He has developed in vitro disease models to study the mechanisms of pathology and search for medicines.
Laureate of the Government of the Russian Federation award for developing new methods of biotherapy for cancer. In the early 2000s, Sergey Kiselev and his colleagues were the first
in Russia to obtain lines of human embryonic stem cells and subsequently successfully published a series of crucial works based on these studies. Areas of scientific interest: early embryonic development, reprogramming, epigenetics of reprogramming, creation of models of socially significant and rare diseases, methods of treatment and drug screening, gene and cell therapy, research on stem cells.