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Biomedicine

Vaccination against high cholesterol

A vaccine that selectively affects the PCSK9 molecule – a protein involved in cholesterol metabolism – is a cost-effective alternative to modern expensive drugs.

15.10.2015
Various

"There is no national science"

Immunologist Alexander Rudensky, who seriously claimed the Nobel Prize this year, – about Russian scientists and cancer treatment.

15.10.2015
Note to the businessman

Venture Market statistics

The volume of capital in the market has not changed much, which, taking into account the departure of a number of major foreign players from the industry, suggests that the industry of Russian – in the long term – innovations remains attractive and interesting for investors.

15.10.2015
Innovative Russia

Happy sailing, "Bebig"!

Rusnano announces the withdrawal from the capital of the portfolio company "Bebig" – the only Russian manufacturer of micro sources for low-dose brachytherapy of prostate cancer.

15.10.2015
Exhibitions and conferences

III Moscow Corporate Venture Summit

The main topic of the 2015 Summit is the growth trajectories of Russian companies in the context of serious changes in the global economy.

15.10.2015
Exhibitions and conferences

Science + Business =…

During the II Congress "Innovative Practice: Science plus Business" there will be an exhibition of projects in the following areas: information technologies, biomedical technologies, bionanosystems and pharmaceuticals, etc.

15.10.2015
Biomedicine

A new target for the development of male contraceptives

A group of Japanese physiologists and biochemists have learned to reduce sperm motility in male mice using immunosuppressants, "disabling" the motility of the middle part of the sperm (connecting the tail and head).

15.10.2015
Healthy skepticism

Epigenetics and homosexuality: debriefing

Another loud sensation has shaken the field of science, where for a quarter of a century they have been tirelessly searching for "homosexuality genes": after all, there is this gene! "No, nothing like that!" the opponents immediately replied.

14.10.2015
Various

Aging is our common future

On October 9, the III National Conference "Society for All Ages", organized by the Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation with the support of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, ended in Moscow.

14.10.2015
Healthy skepticism

"Healthy" fatty acids and other dietary myths

Taking omega-3 fatty acids, lutein and zeaxanthin, horse doses of ascorbic acid and antioxidants and many other popular dietary supplements and "healthy" products does not benefit anyone except their manufacturers and sellers.

14.10.2015
Genetic engineering

Experts – about editing the genes of humans and pigs

Editing human genes can form the basis of promising methods of treating serious diseases, but they cause a lot of doubts. Genetically modified pigs as a source of donor organs are of little less concern to specialists.

14.10.2015
Cellular technologies

Stem cells against bone fragility syndrome

A unique clinical trial is scheduled to begin in January 2016, in which collagen-synthesizing stem cells will be injected into unborn children with osteogenesis imperfecta (bone fragility syndrome).

13.10.2015
Genetics

Solving the Peto Paradox

Elephants, despite their size and long lifespan, get cancer less often than smaller species. This paradox was named after Richard Peto, a British epidemiologist from Oxford, who noticed it back in the 1970s.

12.10.2015
Innovative Russia

Ion-powered drugs

Scientists of the Institute of Organic Chemistry have developed the concept of API-IL (active pharmaceutical ingredient – ionic liquid) to achieve structural diversity in pharmaceuticals, as well as the creation of dual-acting drugs.

12.10.2015
Genetics

How Epigenetic Heredity works

The mice conceived with the help of spermatozoa completely cleared of epigenetic marks almost universally suffered from the most serious developmental defects, anomalies in the structure of the skeleton, and many of them did not even live to be born.

09.10.2015
Other life sciences

Not all video games are equally useful

Analysis of the results of observations of the brain of gamers showed that the best way to develop our nervous system is not puzzles and games for ingenuity, but shooting games and arcades.

09.10.2015
Biotechnologies - into life

From the heading "Man of Sciences"

Biotechnologist and plant physiologist from UrFU Alexander Yermoshin debunks myths about the harm of genetically modified vegetables and talks about Christmas trees in test tubes and about which plant can save soils contaminated with heavy metals.

09.10.2015
Prolonging youth

238 genes that yeast lives longer without

Almost half of these genes that affect life expectancy are also found in mammalian DNA. In theory, all these DNA sites can be the "targets" that can be hit by life-prolonging drugs.

09.10.2015