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New in Gerontology

Old people! Don't be afraid of sex!

Now a person aged 65 can safely expect to live another two decades or so. Naturally, many people want to make up for those hours of sex that were "lost" earlier due to stressful work, crying children or fears of getting pregnant.

18.11.2008
Other life sciences

Insidious test tubes

Perhaps many of the problems faced by geneticists and microbiologists when growing cell cultures in the laboratory are due precisely to the influence of the test tube material, due to which some indicators may differ from the correct ones by dozens of times!

18.11.2008
Innovative Russia

Business angels invest in innovative Russia

In the near and distant future, the activities of business angels seem promising. This is also relevant because the deficit of financial resources at the "sowing" stage in Russia is about 100 billion rubles. And investments in small innovative businesses bring high returns.

18.11.2008
Nanotechnology

Nanomedicine and Nanobiology at Rusnanotech-2008

Details of the scientific and business program of the forum and exhibition can be found on the Rusnanotech-2008 website. And here are the sections of his program concerning medical and biological applications of nanotechnology.

17.11.2008
Healthy skepticism

Free medicine

The deplorable state of Russian free medicine has become a byword. It's no secret that the level of treatment on a commercial basis, as a rule, is practically no different from what "free" patients receive. Nevertheless, the relevance and timeliness of the FAS's intentions to introduce a ban on the provision of paid medical services in public health facilities are highly questionable.

17.11.2008
Grants and competitions

SMART GUY-2009

The Bortnik Foundation begins accepting applications under the program "Participant of the youth scientific and innovative competition" ("U.M.N.I.K.") for 2009.

17.11.2008
Your health

Botulinum toxin in cosmetology — poison or medicine?

The desire of people to rejuvenate and become prettier at all costs and their willingness to pay a lot of money for it has led to the fact that very risky methods are often used in modern cosmetology.

14.11.2008
Healthy skepticism

Rejuvenate your oncology!

Across the ocean, painfully familiar healers are hustling, offering to rejuvenate your everything. Even urology, gynecology and oncology.

14.11.2008
Biomedicine

On the gene grounds

Medical genetics is developing so rapidly that applied medicine simply cannot keep up with it: treating doctors and geneticists almost do not cooperate, and it is generally unclear whether society is ready for such revelations.

14.11.2008
Innovative Russia

The crisis will affect venture financing in two ways

Ivan Rodionov, a professor at the Higher School of Economics and a member of the Administrative Council of the Russian Association of Direct and Venture Investment, talks about how the crisis may affect the Russian venture financing industry.

13.11.2008
Biotechnologies - into life

Biotechnology of the Moscow region

The theme of the annual conference "Biotechnology – 2008" held in Pushchino on October 30 was the introduction of scientific achievements in the field of biotechnology into the production practice of the Moscow region.

13.11.2008
Innovative Russia

Innovations: a view from Akademgorodok

President Dmitry Medvedev recently made public his unpleasant discovery: the huge public funds allocated in recent years for the purpose of establishing an innovative economy have been wasted. It is urgent to take "all the necessary management decisions both at the level of state corporations and at the level of small and medium-sized businesses." But what kind of solutions are needed?

13.11.2008
Other life sciences

A word about the genetics of behavior

It is clear that practically nothing is yet clear in the genetics of behavior. However, it is also clear that psychologists will soon have to arm themselves with modern tools for analyzing the genetic characteristics of the participants in their research, in addition to outdated Eysenck tests and other questionnaires.

13.11.2008
Note to the businessman

Can the crisis benefit the Russian pharmaceutical market?

According to experts' forecasts, the collapse risks are low for systemically important drug suppliers and leading domestic manufacturers. The financial crisis may stimulate the renewal of the pharmaceutical market, as in 1998.

13.11.2008
Grants and competitions

International Student Exchange Program Global UGRAD

The Global UGRAD International Student Exchange program provides an opportunity for students of 1-3 courses of full-time departments of universities to study for one academic year without obtaining a degree at a university and college in the USA.

13.11.2008
Other life sciences

Genes and behavior: humans are just like butterflies and birds

To solve the world's problems, we use old, proven genetic and neural circuits that have evolved over the course of evolution to regulate our relationships with fellow tribesmen in small collectives. And if so, then it's time for political scientists to join forces with specialists in behavior genetics, neuroscientists and evolutionary psychologists.

12.11.2008
Biomedicine

Telomeres and HIV infection

Telomerase genes also work in killer lymphocytes, which are also required to multiply rapidly in order to perform their tasks. However, the hunt for hidden immunodeficiency viruses turns out to be so long that these genes gradually stop turning on. Perhaps TAT2 or other, more powerful telomerase activators will solve the problem

12.11.2008