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Healthy skepticism

The formula of deception

Science, as a kind of human creative activity, is akin to art. Just like in art, where there are author's directions, and there is pop, science has its own pop.

15.06.2011
Biomedicine

Thymosin beta4: take a month before a heart attack

Scientists injected thymosin beta4 into mice daily for a week, after which they simulated a heart attack. Two weeks after the operation, the cells of the outer layers of the heart migrated inside and grouped around the injury zone.

14.06.2011
Nanotechnology

Proteins have become components of "dry" electrical circuits

To create protein-graphite electrical circuits, scientists had to invent not only a method for synthesizing photovoltaic proteins capable of functioning in air, but also a technology for measuring their electrical properties.

14.06.2011
Biomedicine

Contraceptive pills for men: another attempt

The retinoic acid receptor antagonist causes infertility in male mice – without side effects and passing after discontinuation of the drug. Perhaps in a few years, researchers will need male volunteers.

10.06.2011
Cellular technologies

Double breast augmentation: beauty requires sacrifice

A new method of plastic surgery, consisting in the transplantation of cells of your own adipose tissue after a preliminary increase in the internal volume of the breast, allows you to double the size of the breast.

09.06.2011
Note to the businessman

You can not pay income tax if…

Educational and medical institutions have been granted the right not to pay income tax if their expenditures on scientific research account for 90% of all income received.

09.06.2011
Nanotechnology

Dendrimers will highlight brain cancer

Modified by two functional groups, the dendrimer structure is able to penetrate the blood-brain barrier and show the position of cancer cells in brain tissues with fluorescent signals.

09.06.2011
Grants and competitions

Alexander von Humboldt – for great scientists

The A. von Humboldt Foundation offers grants and scholarships to foreign scientists for the implementation of their research projects together with German colleagues. The only selection criterion is the scientific qualification of the applicants.

09.06.2011
Exhibitions and conferences

High technologies in physiology and medicine

II International Scientific and Practical Conference "High Technologies, fundamental and Applied research in Physiology and Medicine" (October 26-28, 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia).

08.06.2011
Genetic engineering

Genetically modified plants, agriculture and society

The Parliamentary Assembly of a huge region is discussing the prospects for the use of genetically modified organisms at the same time as in the minds of the population, one mention of it causes utter confusion.

08.06.2011
Your health

How to fight off E. coli

Rospotrebnadzor and WHO – on the prevention of infection with enterohemorrhagic E. coli. Those who are warned are armed.

08.06.2011
Grants and competitions

Postdoctoral Fellowships for life sciences Research

The French Human Frontier Science Program offers postdoctoral fellowship programs in the framework of fundamental transnational and interdisciplinary research in the field of life sciences.

08.06.2011