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Grants and competitions

European-Russian applied research in biotechnology

In March 2012 ERA-IB2 launches the third joint research and development competition, the main purpose of which will be the creation of joint R&D in the field of industrial biotechnologies.

14.03.2012
Grants and competitions

Do you want to work on your dissertation in Germany?

Specialists under the age of 27 working on a dissertation devoted to experiments in the field of fundamental biomedical research are invited to participate in the Competition.

14.03.2012
Innovative Russia

What does Rusnano finance?

Relying only on Russian developments, our nanoindustry will not reach the planned production volume by 2015. We have to take all the best that is being created in the West and invest in Russian science and education.

14.03.2012
Exhibitions and conferences

The angels will fly in April

The first Russian week of business angels will be held in Moscow on April 23-27, 2012. The central event of the Week will be the holding of the XII Annual Congress of the European Association of Business Angels on April 23-24.

14.03.2012
Your health

Stem Cell Treatment: 10 Tips for Dummies

The author of the article, a researcher who devoted his work to stem cells and a cancer patient, formulated 10 key points to help people looking for reliable information about stem cells and cell therapy.

14.03.2012
Genetics

The gorilla genome

Geneticists have completed a complete decoding of the gorilla genome and found that about 15% of gorilla genes are closer to their human counterparts than to those contained in the DNA of chimpanzees.

13.03.2012
Cellular technologies

Transplantation from immunocompatible donors: the first success

Five out of eight patients within a year after kidney transplantation, who did not fit them according to immunological parameters, together with hematopoietic stem cells from donors, were able to refuse to take immunosuppressants.

13.03.2012
Exhibitions and conferences

Life Sciences Invest – 2012

The II International Forum Life Sciences Invest (Partnering Russia) will be held in St. Petersburg on November 01-02, 2012.

13.03.2012
Controversial

Cleanliness is harmful to health

While working on this book , the scientific writer and biologist R.Dunn changed its working title "Living clean is harmful" to a more complex version of "The inhabitants of our body: predators, parasites and partners that shape the appearance of modern people."

11.03.2012
Biomedicine

Bacteria for cancer treatment

Perhaps the final stage in the development of cancer treatment methods with the help of bacteria will be combined approaches, when chemotherapy drugs will affect the tumor from the outside, and microorganisms will kill it from the inside.

11.03.2012
Other life sciences

How to teach fat cells to burn calories?

The protein PRDM16 – a possible target of future drugs for the treatment of obesity – can work as a "switch" that turns calorie-storing white fat cells into calorie-burning brown fat cells.

11.03.2012
Biotechnologies - into life

Neolactoferrin rushes to the market

There is no human lactoferrin as a marketable product on the world market. The production of the drug "Neolactoferrin" from the milk of transgenic goats will allow Transgenpharm to occupy a worthy niche in the global biotechnology market.

07.03.2012
Innovative Russia

Grants of "Dynasty" – to young biologists

The names of ten winners of the competition of young scientists specializing in the field of molecular and cellular biology have been announced.

07.03.2012
Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology a la russe

World experts quote few articles by Russian scientists working in the field of nanotechnology, and the situation with obtaining patents by Russian organizations on this topic is depressing.

07.03.2012
Biotechnologies - into life

Another biomedical acquisition of Rusnano

Rusnano and the American venture fund Domain Associates are investing $760 million in the development and production of innovative medicines.

07.03.2012