A.N. Shirshova - Researcher, Laboratory of Pharmacogenomics, Institute of Сhemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICBFM SB RAS), Novosibirsk M.A. Smetanina - Ph.D.(Biol.), Researcher, Laboratory of Pharmacogenomics, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICBFM SB RAS), Novosibirsk V.N. Aushev - Ph.D.(Med.), Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Oncogenes Regulation, Carcinogenesis Institute, N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center, Moscow M.L. Filipenko - Ph.D.(Biol.), Head of the Laboratory of Pharmacogenomics, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk N.E. Kushlinskii - Dr.Sc. (Med.), Professor, Head of the Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory, N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center, Moscow

The data on the treatment of various diseases with the help of microRNAs and contemporary methods of microRNA concentrations measurement in biological fluids by means of real-time PCR technologies are reviewed. Examples of the application of primers from different manufacturers are shown.

 

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