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Your health

Gerontology is not only the treatment of the elderly

The article is devoted to the actual problem of the organization of medical and social assistance to elderly and senile people. The features of the course of diseases in this category of patients and the principles of geriatric pharmacology are briefly described.

03.05.2011
Cellular technologies

Europe may be left without stem cells

The highest court in Europe is about to declare patents for stem cell treatment immoral and, therefore, illegal.

29.04.2011
Innovative Russia

Which road leads to Innograd?

The road has become the symbol of the Skolkovo Innograd. The same Russian road, the metaphysical correlate of the sacred fool. The section of the highway to Innograd with a length of 6 km was repaired for 6 billion rubles. And immediately fell apart, exposing the quality of the repair.

29.04.2011
Grants and competitions

Grant competition for young scientists from Abramovich and Deripaska

The Regional Public Foundation for the Promotion of Russian Science announces a competition for the award of search grants under the Program of Scientific and Technical Modernization and Advanced Training of young scientists of Russia.

29.04.2011
Genetics

Diseases inherited from Mom

Do women inherit health from their mothers? How important is the role of genes in a variety of ailments, from obesity to breast cancer, and how much do they depend on lifestyle?

28.04.2011
Innovative Russia

Innovation – "green corridor"

A year ago, A.B. Chubais raised the topic of the "green corridor" in legislation for the development of innovations and nanotechnologies in Russia. Rusnano has been actively engaged in this corridor all year. And what progress?

28.04.2011
Genetics

A fictional gene

Most likely, the "rage gene" can be put with a clear conscience in the same glorious line in which the "homosexuality gene", the "faith gene", the "high IQ gene", the "alcoholism gene", the "gambling gene" and the "liberalism gene" are already located.

28.04.2011
Innovative Russia

Cut a window into the big farm

"St. Petersburg has everything for the formation of a pharmacological cluster: both experience and conditions," said the head of the city Valentina Matvienko.

26.04.2011
Innovative Russia

Innovative business: three sides of the coin

The conference "Scientific, Technological and Business expertise of projects: three sides of the same coin" was held at the St. Petersburg Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences on April 25, 2011. We sat, talked, and dispersed...

26.04.2011
Controversial

Radio–transmitting bacteria?

Electromagnetic low–frequency radiation of bacteria is a topic that has been balancing between mysticism and science for a long time. But a group of biophysicists from the USA managed to offer a plausible way in which bacteria can broadcast their own "radio".

25.04.2011
Various

Ten ideas that will define our future

Much of the above looks quite feasible. We will live to see if the earliest of the forecasts are fulfilled. And predicting the future for 100 years ahead – well, it's not harmful to dream...

25.04.2011