Articles

Note to the businessman

Pharmaceutical businessmen are far from oilmen, but still…

The list of 500 leaders of Russian business includes 23 companies operating in the pharmaceutical market, 10 of them are pharmaceutical distributors.

25.09.2015

Various

Thomson Reuters has published a forecast of the 2015 Nobel Prize laureates

The list of possible Nobel laureates in medicine includes a former Russian, immunologist Alexander Rudensky. However, they make mistakes in these forecasts much more often than they guess…

25.09.2015

Exhibitions and conferences

VUZPROMEXPO-2015

In the period from December 2 to December 4, 2015, the III National Annual Exhibition-Forum VUZPROMEXPO-2015 will be held in Moscow on the site of Technopolis "Moscow".

25.09.2015

Genetics

An emotion enhancer gene

Owners of one of the SERT gene varieties are more prone to depression if life cracks, but they are happier if everything goes well.

25.09.2015

Cellular technologies

STAP cells are the result of an error, not a falsification

Such errors often occur in biological laboratories, but they must be taken into account in order to obtain pure scientific data.

24.09.2015

Various

The cockroach from Kaliningrad

Scientists and engineers of the Baltic Federal University named after I.Kant are finishing work on creating a robot disguised as a 10-centimeter tropical cockroach.

24.09.2015

Note to the businessman

About greedy merchants

Hillary Clinton in her microblog on Twitter promised to present a plan to combat the increase in drug prices. After this statement, the index of biotech companies traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange fell by 4.7%.

23.09.2015

Biomedicine

Pills for the mind (1)

What medications are known today to improve mental abilities and how effective are they?

23.09.2015

Biomedicine

Protein "patch" will restore the heart after a heart attack

The researchers hope that clinical trials of the "protein patch" will begin in the next two years.

23.09.2015

Your health

Deadly falsifications

The active ingredients of prescription drugs for erectile dysfunction were found in 80% of the "natural" products studied. In some samples, the dosage was even higher than in tablets.

23.09.2015

Various

55 times a night

"This is not a story of a greedy company trying to warm up on patients. This is our attempt to stay in business," the head of Turing Pharmaceuticals said in a blue eye.

22.09.2015

Other life sciences

Pancreas for everyday wear

Scientists from the University of Cambridge have developed an artificial pancreas that can function for 12 consecutive weeks, providing patients with type I diabetes with a normal quality of life.

22.09.2015

Exhibitions and conferences

Open to all innovations

To become a participant of the Open Innovations Forum in 2015, it is enough to fill out an electronic registration form on the website and pay a fee. Entrance to the exhibition will be carried out by tickets without prior registration.

22.09.2015

Nanotechnology

Nanocontainers for drugs dressed up in the "skin" of platelets

The coating of platelet membranes effectively masks nanoparticles from the immune system, and also increases their selective adhesion on damaged areas of blood vessels.

21.09.2015

Other life sciences

The damaged nerve was printed "nerve line"

A group of American scientists created a framework for nerves using 3D printing. The design allows you to restore sensory and motor functions after injury.

21.09.2015

New in Gerontology

The development of Alzheimer's disease is facilitated by a violation of the BBB

The hidden cause of Alzheimer's disease may be the blocking of channels in the blood-brain barrier, through which protein "garbage" is removed from nerve tissues.

21.09.2015

Innovative Russia

Bioinformatics for biomedicine

A laboratory of structural bioinformatics and molecular modeling is being opened at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Novosibirsk State University.

21.09.2015

Genetic engineering

Disabling genes will help solve the problem of miscarriages

By modifying human embryos, researchers want to identify the genes that are most active in the first days of fetal life, when the embryo forms the cells that form the basis of the future placenta.

21.09.2015

Genetics

Natural selection has changed the genes of Eskimos

It is only thanks to genetic changes that Greenland Eskimos compensate for their habitually high consumption of fatty acids from fish.

21.09.2015

Your health

Triclosan is not only harmful, but also useless

Antibacterial soap with triclosan turned out to be no more effective in the fight against microbes than usual.

21.09.2015