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Grants and competitions

Molecular and Theoretical Biology for schoolchildren – 2013

The program of the School of Molecular and Theoretical Biology (August 7-24, Pushchino) is intended for high school students and is aimed at integrating participants into the workflow of scientific research in laboratories.

04.03.2013
Various

Old grumblers live longer than optimists

Older people who don't expect much from their future are more likely to live longer and maintain better health than their optimistic peers.

04.03.2013
Biomedicine

Kadsila against breast cancer

A new drug from the arsenal of personalized medicine – Kadsil (trastuzumab emtanzin) – has received FDA approval.

04.03.2013
Nanotechnology

Nanoparticles disguised from the immune system

An artificially synthesized fragment of a protein molecule protects nanoparticles from macrophages, allowing them to deliver their therapeutic cargo to their destination.

01.03.2013
Other life sciences

Laboratory in your pocket

The uChek smartphone app determines 8-10 parameters of urine – the level of sugar, protein, ketone bodies, bilirubin, leukocytes and others – and interprets the results, allowing you to identify the symptoms of 25 diseases.

01.03.2013
Prolonging youth

Biorhythmology of mortality

Periods when the probability of death of mice increases sharply alternate with periods of increased resilience. According to the researchers, the proof of this hypothesis in relation to humans would allow people to extend their life to a species maximum of about 105 years.

01.03.2013
Your health

Kindness is the key to health

After 10 weeks of volunteer work, the study participants had lower levels of cholesterol and inflammatory proteins in the blood, as well as body mass index, than their peers from the control group.

01.03.2013
Grants and competitions

Study abroad: Presidential Scholarships

The Ministry of Education and Science announces an All-Russian open competition for Presidential scholarships for students and postgraduates of Russian universities to study abroad.

28.02.2013
New in Gerontology

Is it possible to prolong the life of neurons?

Neurons don't have their own biological clock that tells them it's time to die–the whole body serves them as such a clock. By influencing the environment of nerve cells, you can prolong their life without fear of disrupting their work.

28.02.2013
Various

Rare diseases without borders

In 2013, the International Day of Patients with Rare Diseases will be held under the slogan "Rare Diseases without Borders" (Rare Disorders without Borders).

28.02.2013
Cellular technologies

iPSCs are going to clinical trials

Japanese scientists in March 2013 will apply for a study on the use of induced pluripotent stem cells in age-related retinal dystrophy.

28.02.2013
Various

Interest in science in Russia is falling

If 68% of respondents were interested in science in 2007, then in 2011 their share fell to 54, and in 2013 – to 47%. A little consolation is that the most interesting for Russians (25% of respondents) were achievements in medicine…

27.02.2013
Various

Pharmacoeconomics of personalized medicine

The main advantages of personalized medicine are to reduce the costs of the healthcare system in the long term and improve the health of the population as a whole.

27.02.2013
Cellular technologies

ESK for "dummies"

Thousands of scientists are engaged in embryonic stem cells, because this field opens up excellent prospects for both science and clinical practice.

27.02.2013
Various

You will also get paid for taking cocaine

Volunteers will receive "reasonable financial compensation" for the time spent and expenses incurred. The aim of the work is to study which pathway cocaine and its metabolites take in the human body.

27.02.2013
Other life sciences

There are no "regeneration genes" in humans:(

Only newts (and possibly other amphibians) have hundreds of genes supposedly involved in the regeneration of damaged tissues. They are not found in the genomes of other vertebrates.

27.02.2013