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Prolonging youth

Will an immunosuppressant help you live up to a hundred years?

The aging process can be slowed down, and life expectancy increased, and by taking the drug already in old age. Scientists plan to find out whether it is possible to eliminate the side effect in the form of a decrease in immunity in the course of further experiments.

09.07.2009
Cellular technologies

Pluripotent stem cells: another source

Experts from Germany have managed to turn mature cells taken from the testes of mice into pluripotent stem cells without resorting to artificial introduction of new genes and the use of viruses.

09.07.2009
Healthy skepticism

Anti-cancer: you are being deceived again

The actively advertised drug "anticancer", allegedly helping with strokes, is not even a dietary supplement. But a mixture of table beet powder and yeast is given out as medicine and sold at a price thousands of times more expensive than the real cost.

09.07.2009
Grants and competitions

SKIP-Start-09 Innovation Project Competition

Students and young scientists! Young entrepreneurs! We invite you to take part in the Intercollegiate student competition of innovative projects – SKIP-Start-09!

08.07.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Microchips for early cancer diagnosis

One of the main tasks in the fight against cancer is the early diagnosis of a tumor. Even better – to predict the occurrence of the disease in advance. Microchips based on synthetic antigens can help this.

08.07.2009
Note to the businessman

Do you need an IVAM nanospravochnik?

The IVAM Research Association has published the second edition of the best-selling Nano Guide of Europe, a database of more than 3,000 suppliers in the field of nanotechnology, microtechnology and modern materials.

07.07.2009
Other life sciences

EvoGrid: Modeling evolution

From the first biopolymers to DNA, lipids, cells and multicellular organisms, there is a huge distance. It's hard to imagine that someone is able to go all this way in the laboratory. But you can try to reproduce prebiotic and biological evolution in a computer. This is what the EvoGrid project is doing.

07.07.2009
Note to the businessman

Innovation: all the secrets of Polichinel

Larry Wendling, Vice president of the 3M Research Laboratory, for the first time discovered the secret of how innovations have been created at his company for the second century.

06.07.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Originals and generics: together, not instead

Increasingly faced with the problem of the expiration of patent exclusivity for their original medicines, representatives of Big Pharma are increasingly inclined to a hybrid brand-generic model.

06.07.2009
Grants and competitions

Scholarships for students from the Bayer Concern

Bayer provides students with the opportunity to receive scholarships to study abroad in the following specialties: biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, development and design of biotechnological processes, chemistry, chemical technology, medicine, pharmacy, physics and teaching of scientific disciplines.

06.07.2009
Cellular technologies

How to grow a new leg? Ask the axolotl!

That there is a tail, like some lizards: the axolotl successfully grows a new fully functional leg, instead of the severed one. Damaged lungs or spinal cord are also reconstructed remarkably. And there are no scars left. That would be so for us.

03.07.2009
Other life sciences

New scientific journal: Asta Naturae

The journal aims to become a pioneer in the field of coverage of biotechnology issues as the basis of an innovative economy. The publication claims to be a leading position in the international market of scientific media and plans to become a leader among scientific journals for a professional audience.

02.07.2009
Note to the businessman

Festival of stupidity of subordinates

Every manager works with exactly the staff they deserve. Even more – any employee can become "stupid" with the appropriate quality of leadership work.

02.07.2009
Grants and competitions

RFBR Contests (annual announcement)

RFBR holds competitions in 2010 for grants for Russian scientists to carry out fundamental scientific research.

02.07.2009
Biomedicine

Nanotransporters will deliver drugs to cancer cells

Many side effects of chemotherapy can be avoided if the drug is delivered purposefully only to cancer cells, to their nucleus. In this case, the effectiveness of the drug increases by several orders of magnitude. This effect can be achieved by using nanotransporters for drug delivery.

01.07.2009
Innovative Russia

The innovation system is still fragmented

According to the general opinion of the participants of the Third Moscow Venture Forum, the innovation system today works only on paper. But there were optimistic notes about the prospects in the speeches.

01.07.2009
Prolonging youth

Old age is somewhere beyond the horizon

Young people believe that old age comes at 60. Middle-aged people push this bar to 70 years. Those who have reached their 65th birthday believe that old age does not come before 74…

30.06.2009
Biomedicine

Cancer vaccines: incite the immune system against cancer cells

The idea of an oncovaccine is similar to an antimicrobial vaccine and is based on the fact that there are special carbohydrate molecules on cancer cells. With the help of vaccination, an immune protective reaction is triggered, aimed at cancer cells.

30.06.2009