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Nanotechnology

Nanoparticles instead of tablets

The new aerosol system makes it possible to obtain drug particles smaller than 100 nm and thereby increase the solubility or bioavailability of drugs.

02.06.2011
Nanotechnology

Microspheres filled with cells will help to heal wounds

By the time the microspheres degrade, cell growth has already been given a good start, since the biomimetic matrix has provided them with the environment in which they feel great in natural conditions.

01.06.2011
Other life sciences

Cancer also accelerates aging…

Cancer cells accelerate the aging of the connective tissues surrounding them, causing inflammation, which provides the tumor with the "fuel" necessary for rapid growth and metastasis.

01.06.2011
Other life sciences

Brain-on-a-chip

Scientists from the USA have created a miniature brain of 60 rat neurons on a silicon substrate. Experiments have shown that a network of nerve cells is capable of processing the received information for a long period of time.

01.06.2011
Healthy skepticism

Papua New Russia

The conversations about modernization and innovation that Russians have been hearing regularly for almost ten years are very similar (according to the author! the editors disagree with this!!!) on the Papuan folk religion – cargo cult.

31.05.2011
New in Gerontology

Telomere length analysis – the way to health?

Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn – about the incorrect statements of the media about the recently developed test for determining the length of telomeres and the importance of such testing for doctors and their patients.

31.05.2011
Cellular technologies

Direct conversion of fibroblasts into neurons

After successful experiments on the transformation of skin cells (fibroblasts) of mice directly into neurons using a combination of proteins, scientists applied the same technique to human cells.

30.05.2011
Nanotechnology

Buy nanotechnology in the online store!

Within the framework of the Innovus 2011 forum, Alexander Morozov, Director of the Department of Demand Stimulation Programs of RUSNANO, presented the information and communication portal "Effective Nanotechnology Solutions"

30.05.2011
Biotechnologies - into life

Biomedicine in Skolkovo: new residents

The Skolkovo biomedical cluster includes a number of companies planning to develop and launch innovative diagnostic systems and biopharmaceuticals on the Russian market.

27.05.2011
Biotechnologies - into life

Membrane protein research has found an investor

MIPT and the private investment fund ONEXIM announced the launch of a joint project to create a laboratory "Advanced research of membrane Proteins" on the basis of the interdisciplinary Scientific and Educational Center "Bionanophysics".

27.05.2011
Various

Smokers and drunkards will be cured with a ruble

The draft amendments to the Tax Code provide that excise taxes on vodka – and hence retail prices – will increase by an average of 30% per year, and on cigarettes – even faster.

27.05.2011
Biomedicine

Modern approaches to the development of anticancer drugs

Cancer cannot be spoken of as a single disease, and a substance that would cure all types of cancer does not exist and cannot exist. Maybe your medicine will be active against 10% of forms of cancer of a certain tissue. Does it make sense to develop such a drug?

26.05.2011
Bioethics

Posthumous children: allow cannot be banned

The problem of fertilization with the sperm of a deceased person exists all over the world. In countries where such manipulation is not prohibited by law, but is not allowed, lawsuits occur from time to time

26.05.2011