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Your health

The most useful drinks for the kidneys

Beer is the most effective in this regard – its regular consumption reduces the likelihood of developing kidney stones by almost half.

24.05.2013
New in Gerontology

Alzheimer's treatment: another ray of hope?

The introduction of TSPO (translocator protein, carrier protein) ligands significantly mitigated pathological phenomena in old mice with Alzheimer's disease model and improved animal memory.

24.05.2013
Grants and competitions

Elevator to the future – the next stage

The charitable Foundation "Sistema" announces a new round of the scholarship program "Elevator to the Future" – for the first semester of the 2013-2014 academic year.

24.05.2013
Healthy skepticism

PR-mastectomy

Although Angelina Jolie is leading a brilliant public campaign, her actions potentially provide billions of dollars in revenue to the industry of owners of patents for human genes.

24.05.2013
Your health

"Chinese flu": be careful, but don't panic

The risk of infection is high for medical workers who are in close contact with patients. As for the transmission of the virus by air, animal studies have shown that it is unlikely. The same applies to people.

24.05.2013
Other life sciences

Microbes-calculators

A group of bioengineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created "analog calculators" based on living unicellular microorganisms.

24.05.2013
Biomedicine

Universal nanovaccine against influenza

American scientists have developed and successfully tested on animals a universal flu vaccine based on the use of self-ordering protein nanoparticles synthesized in the laboratory.

24.05.2013
Grants and competitions

We answer children's questions

The Elevator to the Future program and MSU announce a competition "Just about Difficult" for students, postgraduates, young scientists to popularize their own scientific ideas and the ideas of their research groups, as well as for novice scientific journalists.

23.05.2013
Various

UN Report on Human Development in Russia

The report, which was presented at the Analytical Center under the Government of the Russian Federation, reports that living conditions are deteriorating in the country by many indicators.

23.05.2013
Grants and competitions

The possibilities of synthetic biology in projects

The project "Synthetic Biology" (ERASynBio) announced the holding of the first joint transnational competition of research projects: "The possibilities of synthetic biology through transnational innovative projects".

23.05.2013
Grants and competitions

The program "Mikhail Lomonosov" 2014-2015

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) announces the acceptance of applications for participation in the program of research scholarships and scientific internships "Mikhail Lomonosov" 2014-2015.

23.05.2013
Prolonging youth

How to protect neurons from degeneration?

Scientists were able not only to confirm that reducing the amount of calories consumed slows down the degeneration of neurons, but also to show that drugs that activate the enzyme sirtuin-1 cause the same effect.

23.05.2013
Exhibitions and conferences

Bioindustry – 2013

The III International Exhibition and Conference "Bioindustry" will be held on October 16-18, 2013 at the Lenexpo exhibition Complex as part of the St. Petersburg International Health Forum.

22.05.2013
Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology and nanoscience

These two concepts have the same relation to each other as, say, engineering to theoretical physics. However, one common detail is the size of the object being studied/constructed.

22.05.2013
Other life sciences

Bacteriophages-symbionts

Scientists have found that the mucous membranes of animals attract symbiotic bacteriophages, which are able to protect the body from pathogenic bacteria.

22.05.2013
Your health

Alzheimer's disease: an easy way to prevent

B vitamins reduce the level of gray matter atrophy of the brain by more than seven times in those areas of the brain that are most vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease.

22.05.2013
Bioethics

Death Contract

UK politicians have developed a model of a contract on euthanasia, or a "death contract", which terminally ill people who wish to die can sign.

21.05.2013