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Innovative Russia

Has the "innovation reform" failed?

Over the past eight years, against the background of talk about innovations from the highest tribunes, the state has not only failed to create really working institutions for the development of an innovative economy, but has consistently destroyed one of them.

26.06.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Seriously ill pharmaceuticals

There is no need to build illusions that the pharmaceutical market will be opened to domestic drugs just like that, where competition is very strong. The organization of any pharmaceutical production in the country receives tremendous opposition from all sides, which probably have their own interests in ensuring that the market situation does not change.

24.06.2009
Innovative Russia

Studying innovation

The skeptical attitude towards innovation researchers is largely due to the fact that the general scientific community does not understand what these researchers are doing.

23.06.2009
Your health

Prostatitis, sexuality and psychosomatics

The psychosomatic model allows for a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of prostatitis formation, sexual disorders and their relationship, allows for more effective elimination of both, affecting the common causes that lead to them.

23.06.2009
Grants and competitions

Presidential grants for young scientists

Competitions have been announced in 2009 to receive grants from the President of the Russian Federation for state support of young Russian scientists – candidates and doctors of sciences.

23.06.2009
Your health

Health insurance: fighting fraudsters

At a time when doctors are robbing their clients, the companies they work for are stealing from the country's budget. American medicine loses from $77 billion to $270 billion every year as a result of fraud.

22.06.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Russian biopharmaceuticals: until the thunder breaks…

Academician Anatoly Miroshnikov: "Russia, apparently, needs a big trouble to understand how important it is to have its own pharmaceutical industry with a full cycle of creating at least vital drugs."

22.06.2009
Cloning

Clone a mammoth? Unreal!

The successes of recent years in deciphering the genetic code of mammoths have given rise to expectations in society of the imminent "return" of these ancient animals. Nikolai Yankovsky says that these expectations have little to do with reality.

22.06.2009
Genetics

The Congress of Geneticists and Breeders begins

The largest forum of Russian geneticists is the Congress of Geneticists and Breeders dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, and the 5th Congress of the Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders opens on June 22.

22.06.2009
Healthy skepticism

The saga of dietary supplements

What are dietary supplements? Can they, as their sellers claim, cure many diseases? Or maybe all dietary supplements (or most of them) are useless and even dangerous? Let's figure it out.

22.06.2009
Bioethics

I'll sell a kidney. Expensive

The surgeon Dmitry Granov considers stories about abductions of people "for organs" and clandestine clinics to be horror stories, behind which there is nothing but the sick fantasy of their authors. The well-known criminologist Yakov Gilinsky believes that it is impossible to exclude the possibility of committing such crimes in Russia. The demand for donor organs is huge, and the prices are too high for criminal structures to bypass this topic.

19.06.2009
Exhibitions and conferences

What is happening in the pharmaceutical market?

International Conference "What is happening in the pharmaceutical market? Autumn session of Farm Leaders" (September 21-22, 2009, Moscow, Marriott Aurora Hotel).

19.06.2009
Healthy skepticism

Prayers for health do not cure

American sociologist Wendy Cage has denied the connection between the power of prayers and the condition of patients. She concluded that such studies could not find a reliable effect.

19.06.2009
Prolonging youth

Anti-aging Science: v.2.0

We propose for discussion, correction and addition one of the approaches to the preparation of the program "Science against Aging", proposed by Russian scientists.

19.06.2009
Genetics

The interchangeability of regulatory genes protects against diseases

There are much more similarities between genes and computer networks than previously thought. In both cases, the key elements of the systems are duplicated. This discovery will allow us to find vulnerable genes responsible for the development of diseases.

18.06.2009
Note to the businessman

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table

Science has ceased to be national, says Dr. Ruth David, a member of the Presidential National Security Council of the United States, president of the independent non-profit research institute ANSER. According to her, the trend towards the globalization of science will lead to a gradual shift of research to developing countries.

18.06.2009