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Your health

Sleep and memory

V.M. Kovalzon, a specialist in the field of physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology of sleep, never scolds students who fall asleep at his lectures. However, none of the listeners fell asleep at Kovalzon's public lecture "Sleep and Memory".

28.01.2011
Other life sciences

A gift to oncologists: breast-on-a-chip

"Breast on a chip" will allow testing new methods for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer using magnetic nanoparticles.

27.01.2011
Other life sciences

Life in the computer

The initiator and head of the C. elegans organism modeling project tells how and why scientists create computer models of living beings.

27.01.2011
Cellular technologies

Fetal cells for coloproctology

The only method of treating familial colon adenomatosis is amputation of the entire colon. The new method of cell therapy allows to preserve the rectum, which significantly improves the quality of life of patients.

27.01.2011
Genetics

Are hereditary diseases threatening your future children?

The rapid test, which allows married couples to check their genomes for the presence of almost 600 mutations fraught with the development of severe hereditary diseases in their future children, in preliminary tests showed almost 100 percent reliability.

27.01.2011
Biotechnologies - into life

HimRar: the success story is not over

Interview with Andrey Ivashchenko, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the HimRar Group of Companies, about the main trends in the global pharmaceutical industry, how to preserve scientific potential and convert it into a successful business, and what problems stand in this way.

25.01.2011
Biomedicine

Cocaine vaccine

The experimental vaccine is a combination of cocaine-like compound molecules and adenovirus particles that stimulate an immune response, but do not cause disease.

25.01.2011
Grants and competitions

Business of innovative technologies – 2011

Make the investor believe in you! Under this motto, the entrepreneurial competition "Business of Innovative Technologies" is being held in Russia for the eighth time.

24.01.2011
Nanotechnology

RNA origami

Nanoparticles from RNA can be used in various fields of engineering and medicine, if you cope with the chemical instability of RNA and its rapid destruction by enzymes-RNases. This was achieved simultaneously by two groups of researchers.

24.01.2011
Biomedicine

AIDS Treatment: RNA with a homing warhead

An aptamer, a chain of nucleotides that recognizes one of the HIV proteins, drags a short interfering RNA through the virus envelope that blocks the reproduction of the immunodeficiency virus.

24.01.2011
Other life sciences

In the world of the cell

"Journey into the world of the cage" is a new excursion route of the St. Petersburg Museum of Hygiene.

21.01.2011
Controversial

An antidepressant bacterium?

In patients receiving injections of mycobacteria, the level of concomitant depression for oncological diseases significantly decreased. The authors are going to continue the experiments.

21.01.2011
Your health

To make him disappear, overweight!

Competent weight loss is a long and rather complicated event, despite the apparent simplicity of its basic principle "eat less and move more".

20.01.2011
Healthy skepticism

Germs will die from dirt

Another study by British scientists (TM) refutes the generally accepted ideas about personal hygiene.

20.01.2011
Various

Orphans on the market of medicines

The orphan drug market remains by no means paramount for the development of pharmaceutical companies. Therefore, the main driver of the orphan drugs market development is government preferences to pharmaceutical companies operating in this segment.

20.01.2011
Various

Medicines-2010

In 2010 The FDA has approved 21 new drugs. 6 biological and 15 low-molecular-weight medicines have successfully passed the control of regulatory authorities.

20.01.2011
Nanotechnology

Shooting at the tumor with separable warheads

Nanoparticles, which, upon contact with cancer cells, are split into smaller objects, will allow drugs to penetrate deeper into the tumor tissue, providing more effective treatment.

20.01.2011