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Grants and competitions

The grant is classified as "secret"

In such a situation, you can make any assumptions. For example, that people who were members of the scientific council simply divided the money. By the way, the winners of the Biodiversity program have been announced for the first time. And there you can find the names of the same academicians who are listed on the scientific council and distribute grants. Some even have not one, but several supported projects.

29.01.2009
Healthy skepticism

Work for free

Of course, not all network marketing schemes, which are increasingly being offered to Russians who are confused in the conditions of the crisis, are "pirated". The vast majority are quite legitimate and traditional: the sale of any goods in the format of the work of peddlers. However, the sale of goods in network marketing is not a goal, but a means. A means to earn money without doing anything at all.

29.01.2009
Controversial

About the benefits of dirt and worms

Once in the body, microbes, viruses and worms "stimulate the development of a healthy immune system." Moreover, according to some studies that have not yet been completed, worms even help to correct some malfunctions in the immune system, leading to asthma, allergies and autoimmune diseases.

28.01.2009
Healthy skepticism

Does the sex of the child depend on the morning porridge?

In April of last year, the article "You are what your mother eats" made a noise. American statisticians declared this news nonsense, referring to the fact that the British received a false relationship.

28.01.2009
Innovative Russia

Devaluation of innovation

Neither practitioners nor theorists in the field of science and innovation can say what measures during the financial crisis will help breathe life into the barely nascent sprouts of domestic innovations. Investors, as well as enterprises that have recently planned to launch new products, are taking a wait-and-see attitude, freezing all innovative projects

28.01.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Cellular technologies are ready for implementation, but...

Scientists of the St. Petersburg Institute of Cytology have developed cellular products that can be used in the treatment of patients with severe and extensive burns. Pinaev's laboratory is working on technologies for the restoration of bone tissue, cartilage and heart muscle. But the introduction of cellular technologies rested on the lack of money.

28.01.2009
Theories of aging

Another aging mechanism: nuclear pores

Reactive oxygen species, which have long been the main enemy of gerontologists, are able to accelerate the wear of nuclear pores, and with it the aging of the entire cell. It remains to be hoped that a system compensating for these "leaks" still exists, and if it can be detected, it will become a new round in the study of active longevity.

28.01.2009
Other life sciences

You can be poor and happy, but you can't be rich and unhappy

If a country is rich, its inhabitants are almost certainly happy; if the inhabitants are unhappy, the country is almost certainly poor. However, there are many countries whose inhabitants consider themselves very happy despite poverty.

27.01.2009
Cellular technologies

The FDA has allowed stem cell testing: details

The damaged areas of the spinal cord of patients will be injected not with embryonic stem cells themselves, but with the progenitor cells of oligodendrocytes derived from them, responsible for the formation of the myelin sheath of neurons. It is assumed that an increase in the number of these cells will create favorable conditions for the regeneration of damaged nerve fibers.

26.01.2009
Biomedicine

Nerves from viruses

Viruses can restore the functioning of nervous tissue and sooner or later will be used to treat patients with spinal cord injuries.

26.01.2009
Healthy skepticism

Pensioner sued money from badovtirateli

Last spring, 69-year-old V. Ashkenazi spent more than 300 thousand rubles on medicines. After learning that he received dietary supplements for this money, Ashkenazi obtained a refund of most of the amount from the seller. Now he is going to get the company to return 50 thousand rubles, which it withheld from the money owed to him allegedly as VAT.

26.01.2009
Prolonging youth

Kill old age in the bud

Both with the use of resveratrol, and with diet, and with physical exertion, the SIRT1 protein from the sirtuin family is activated. Another candidate for the elixirs of youth is a drug that restores telomeres. Mice with elevated telomerase levels live 40% longer. In addition, they have stronger skin and stronger immunity. To what extent these results are applicable to a person is an open question. But some are impatient.

23.01.2009
Note to the businessman

Crisis and small business

The positive trends in the development of the small business sector that have emerged in recent years can be removed by the influence of both general and specific factors caused by crisis phenomena in the economy of foreign countries and the Russian Federation.

23.01.2009
Healthy skepticism

Placebo acupuncture is no worse than "real" acupuncture

The introduction of needles even into the surface layer of the skin and away from traditional acupuncture points is no less effective in relieving headaches than acupuncture according to all the rules of traditional Chinese medicine.

22.01.2009
Nanotechnology

Dietary supplements with nano-additives: a bitter pill

It is unclear whether the dietary supplement industry is conducting the rigorous testing necessary to understand the effects of nano-ingredients in products, as well as the characteristics of products. This means that consumers are potentially exposed to risk, which must be balanced with the possible benefits of taking such supplements.

22.01.2009
Other life sciences

You are under hypnosis!

In a deep hypnotic dream, a person completely submits to the will of the hypnotist… Stop! There are two fundamental mistakes in this short phrase.

21.01.2009
Genetics

The gene parasite is trimerized to attack human DNA

Molecular biologists have found out how one of the most successful human parasites lives. It occupied 10% of the DNA in humans and higher primates. According to the authors of the work, they would like to learn his methods of genetic engineering.

21.01.2009
Other life sciences

Exoskeleton controlled by myogram

A suit sensitive to biological currents is able to strengthen the weak muscles of people suffering from neurodegenerative diseases, stroke survivors, and so on. An exoskeleton could not only make life easier for such patients, but would also contribute to their rehabilitation, serving as a good simulator.

21.01.2009