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Cloning

Cloning a mammoth: an optimist's opinion

After the recent discovery of the carcass of an adult female mammoth, the extinct animal may still be cloned. Semyon Grigoriev, head of the Mammoth Museum, talks about the prospects of such a project.

06.06.2013
Genetics

DNA prints: to take or not to take?

The idea of DNA as a universal bioidentifier is not to everyone's liking. Alarmists warn: let the state and corporations dig into your genes – and a society like "Gattaca" will be built by itself.

06.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Safe cells

Australian scientists have developed the first test to identify human induced pluripotent stem cell lines capable of forming tumors.

06.06.2013
Note to the businessman

How much are smokers today?

Smoking employees cost the employer on average almost $6,000 more per year than non-smokers.

06.06.2013
Cellular technologies

About bioprinting – first-hand

The author of the first publication about 3D bioprinting, Professor V. Mironov, tells about how to print organs with living cells without solid frames, on which printer and with what "ink".

06.06.2013
Genetics

An ordinary miracle of genetics

The lecture by D.B.N. D.Rebrikov "An ordinary miracle of genetics" will begin at 19-00 on 13.06.2013 at cafe ZaVtra (Moscow, Sretenka str. 26/1). Admission is free, and video streaming is available for those who cannot walk.

06.06.2013
Biomedicine

Will an antibiotic help to give up cocaine?

The use of ceftriaxone, a third–generation cephalosporin antibiotic, during the withdrawal period, reduced the degree of cocaine dependence in rats who were "hooked" on the drug.

05.06.2013
Your health

Two more reasons to take care of your health

Compliance with the four basic rules of a healthy lifestyle reduces the likelihood of memory problems by more than two times. And British scientists (TM) have calculated that an unhealthy lifestyle ages a woman's appearance by 10 years.

05.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Cellular technologies in Russia: details

A draft law regulating the use of cellular medicine in our country has been approved and will be submitted to the government in the near future.

05.06.2013
Biomedicine

Prostate Cancer Cure: An Exciting Start

There is still a lot of work to be done before the creation of a potential drug against prostate cancer, but, according to the head of the research team, "this is an exciting start."

04.06.2013
Grants and competitions

RUSNANOPRIZE-2013

According to the decision of the Board of Rusnano in 2013, the award will be awarded in the direction: "Nanomaterials and surface modification". The monetary part of the award will amount to 3 million rubles.

04.06.2013
Various

The Blavatnik Prize

Leonid Blavatnik, an American businessman of Ukrainian origin, has established a scientific award named after himself. The prize will be awarded annually to three young American scientists and will amount to $250,000.

04.06.2013
Other life sciences

Super-antibiotic of the latest generation

Fundamentally new antibiotics developed by American scientists turned out to be a hundred times more effective than existing ones. Bacteria will not develop resistance to them soon.

04.06.2013
Grants and competitions

Candidates of Sciences are invited to Strasbourg

The Human Frontier Science Program (Strasbourg, France) offers scholarship programs for postdocs in the framework of fundamental transnational and interdisciplinary research in the field of life sciences.

04.06.2013
Note to the businessman

R&D activity of the pharmaceutical market in 2012

Achievements of companies engaged in the development and research of new drugs, as well as trends in the development of the global pharmaceutical market of R&D projects and the main successes in this area in 2012.

03.06.2013