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Exhibitions and conferences

The entry of Russian nanotechnologies into the world market

III Annual Scientific and Practical Conference of the Nanotechnology Society of Russia "Entry of Russian Nanotechnologies into the world market: experience of success and cooperation, problems and prospects" (St. Petersburg, October 5-7, 2011).

07.04.2011
Bioethics

Surrogacy

Lawyer S.V.Lebedev answered the questions of readers of "Mednovosti" about the legal and ethical aspects of surrogacy.

06.04.2011
Innovative Russia

Innovators-schemers

A group of so-called "black" innovators has formed around innovation support institutions, who participate in innovation project competitions solely for the purpose of personal enrichment without the intention of conducting any creative work.

06.04.2011
Innovative Russia

Group biomedicine

Each system project in the field of biomedicine supported by the Skolkovo Foundation can theoretically become a center for collective use.

01.04.2011
Nanotechnology

Ghosts of scary bacteria rattle chains of nanopowder

Encapsulation of antibiotics in nanofibers makes them capable of killing drug-resistant bacteria so effectively that scientists describe the remnants of pathogenic microorganisms as "ghosts".

01.04.2011
Prolonging youth

Paint for prolonging life

Laboratory dye thioflavin T (basic yellow) prolongs the life of C.elegans worms almost twice.

01.04.2011
Biomedicine

Prostate cancer diagnosis: twice as accurate?

A prostate-specific antigen test gives false positive results in 40% of cases. The new test, for the presence of four more proteins, can double the reliability of early diagnosis of prostate cancer.

29.03.2011
Genetics

Do short telomeres warn about diabetes?

Shortening of telomeres can serve not only as an indicator of aging, but perhaps also as a biomarker for the development of diabetes.

29.03.2011
Innovative Russia

People don't need unhealthy innovations

A detailed report on the conference "Technology Exchanges of Russia and the West: how to attract investment in Russian innovations?" under the provocative title "Innovations in Russian: auto-training instead of eliminating system errors."

28.03.2011
Exhibitions and conferences

Healthcare in the 21st century

The scientific and practical conference "Healthcare in the 21st century" will be held on April 5, 2011.

28.03.2011
Innovative Russia

The most innovative companies in Russia

The National Association of Innovations and Development of Information Technologies (NAIRIT) has prepared a rating of the fifty most innovative Russian companies.

25.03.2011
Various

Freeloaders and retired investors

The reasons for the shortage of money in the Pension Fund are in the bad investment, business and legal climate in the country. And only by raising the retirement age and increasing taxes, this disease can no longer be cured.

25.03.2011
Biomedicine

Overcome the blood-brain barrier: details

Exosomes injected into the blood – the smallest capsules produced by most cells of the body, are able to transfer the drug to the brain through the usually impenetrable blood-brain barrier.

25.03.2011
Biotechnologies - into life

About biopolymers, biotechnologies and drug production

Yuri Vorobyov, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the SB RAS, spoke about research that will improve biotechnology and the process of drug production and about the work of a scientist in Russia and the USA.

25.03.2011
Genetics

Genome sequencing: another record

The third-generation sequencer, which was able to read the genome of a bacterium in just an hour, still costs over $700,000, but the first "fast" sequencers cost about a million.

25.03.2011
Genetics

Naltrexone helps drunks. But not everyone

The blocker of opioid receptors of the mu type in the brain – naltrexone – helps men with a certain mutation in the OPRM1 gene to refuse alcohol abuse, and women – even without such a mutation.

25.03.2011