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Biomedicine

Medicine and Mathematics

The most important area of application of mathematics in medicine is the creation of new medicines.

29.04.2010
Grants and competitions

A new generation chooses innovation

The best youth innovative projects will receive grants from state support funds allocated by the MMOD "New Generation".

29.04.2010
Healthy skepticism

Hair extension products were rated

Only three out of ten drugs evaluated by a group of experts to restore lost hair can be recommended for use.

28.04.2010
Bioethics

Bioethics and Medicine: More questions than answers

Organ transplantation, artificial insemination, genetic engineering, human cloning, the use of embryos, stem cell treatment and much more – is everything that is possible in medicine acceptable from the standpoint of bioethics?

28.04.2010
Other life sciences

Protein biosynthesis: made in Russia

Russian scientists from the non–profit organization "GeronLab" have managed to clarify the mechanism of communication between the two most important stages of the central process of living matter - protein biosynthesis.

28.04.2010
Various

Eurasian Russian Biotechnology

Raif Vasilov: The main fundamental achievement achieved at EurasiaBio is that Russia has declared itself at the highest level as a country that develops biotechnologies and bioindustry.

28.04.2010
Note to the businessman

Trends in healthcare: personalization of services

The new PricewaterhouseCoopers report on trends in the healthcare system "Forecast of healthcare development: personalization of diagnostic, care and treatment services" is published by the Institute

22.04.2010
Various

Molecular Biology is mortally wounded

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Georgy Georgiev: Due to funding cuts, the seven-year work on restoring world-class molecular and cellular biology in the country is in danger of collapse.

21.04.2010
Your health

Vaccines, vaccination and their role in public health

Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Deputy Director General for Science of the International Institute of Vaccines M.Favorov: "You need to be vaccinated against everything that is at risk of infection and from which there is an effective vaccine."

21.04.2010
Healthy skepticism

Generator of youth: immortality – with everything and for nothing!

The "youth generator" is able to reduce the biological age by as much as you like, for example, up to 25-30 years. A person can live at this ideal age for as long as he wants. But immortality should not become the privilege of a group of individuals or even one state.

20.04.2010
Biotechnologies - into life

Development of new drugs: open innovations

The traditional model of drug development stops working. Global pharmaceutical companies are looking for a way out in the concept of open innovation. Russian companies also have a chance to fit into this concept.

20.04.2010
Biomedicine

Will macroketone stop metastases?

Macroketone neutralizes the action of fascin, a protein involved in the stabilization of actin fiber bundles. Without the formation of such bundles, cancer cells cannot move and, accordingly, form metastases.

19.04.2010
Genetics

Features of the national genome

Articles on decoding human genomes are published with pleasure by leading scientific journals. The staff of the Kurchatov Institute posted a brief report on the work in the newly created Russian scientific journal Acta Naturae.

19.04.2010
Biomedicine

Genetic testing: do you need it?

There is undoubtedly an interest in genetic testing in society. But people's expectations of him are usually overstated. Most would like to pass the perfect test that will give them a one hundred percent guarantee, and there simply are no such.

16.04.2010
Biomedicine

Pancreatic prosthesis normalizes insulin and glucagon

The artificial pancreas controls glucose levels and, with the help of a software–controlled pump, injects the necessary amount of the desired hormone – insulin or its antagonist - glucagon.

16.04.2010