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Your health

Liver in a hundred-gram way: 10 myths about cirrhosis

The essence of cirrhosis is the destruction of liver tissue due to necrosis and fibrosis of hepatocytes (that is, the death of liver cells and their replacement with collagen fibers). As a result, the liver ceases to be a blood purification factory and becomes a useless accumulation of connective tissue.

06.11.2008
Exhibitions and conferences

Pharma Russia. Business in an era of change

At the second annual forum “Pharma Russia. Business in the Era of Change" (11.12.2008, Moscow, Marriott Grand Hotel) will discuss the main problems and prospects for the development of the industry in modern conditions, state policy towards this market, ways to protect the market from monopolization and its investment potential in the financial crisis.

06.11.2008
Bioethics

Personal Genome Project: The End of Privacy

The participants of the Personal Genome Project were not afraid to disclose the most personal information about themselves. They did this quite deliberately, making a choice between preserving privacy, privacy and supporting science and, possibly, their health.

05.11.2008
Biomedicine

Autoantibodies will help predict brain diseases

With the help of molecular blood testing, stroke can be predicted and prevented. Scientists used for this purpose the "scavengers" of the human body – autoantibodies that help get rid of proteins that have worked out their own.

05.11.2008
Innovative Russia

Belarusian nanotechnologies of Chinese assembly

Only a quarter of the projects presented at the National Congress of Business Angels of Russia offered the release and promotion of real products and technologies to the market. There was only one business proposal connected with the production of a product that has no analogues on the Russian market.

01.11.2008
Biomedicine

Express diagnosis of acute coronary events

Rapid diagnosis of cardiomarkers in myocardial infarction and other acute coronary events improves diagnosis, increases the effectiveness of therapy and reduces the number of complications, hospitalization time and treatment costs.

01.11.2008
Biotechnologies - into life

Crisis and pharmaceutical industry

Large pharmaceutical companies are already stopping financing the development and testing of new drugs, being wary of financial risks. According to analysts, individual new developments that were planned by domestic companies will also be frozen.

31.10.2008
Innovative Russia

RVC invests in high technology

Investments will be made in companies with an annual revenue of up to 25 million rubles and an age of at least three years. In addition, the model of "seed financing" (project financing at the earliest stage) will be tested for the first time. It is proposed to allocate 2 billion rubles for this.

31.10.2008
Prolonging youth

A long life is hidden in gene tumblers

"Elderly" nematodes Caenorhabditis elegans, in which researchers neutralized the expression of ELT-5 and ELT-6 factors, lived one and a half times longer than their ordinary counterparts.

30.10.2008
Other life sciences

Placebo: the most important pill

This medicine can help with colds, headaches, ulcers, alcoholism, depression and many other diseases. Its cost price is literally pennies. However, officially this drug cannot be bought in any pharmacy in the world ... We are talking about a placebo — a dummy that the human psyche perceives as a medicine.

30.10.2008
Controversial

Is "healthy eating" harmful to health?

"Most people consume foods that are unusual for human beings," says Barry Groves, a doctoral candidate in dietetics, who recently wrote the book "How Healthy Eating Makes Us Sick."

29.10.2008
Note to the businessman

The Seven Deadly Sins of Company Websites

Seth Rosenblat, Vice President of Marketing at Interwoven, warns website owners against gluttony, envy, fornication, pride, greed, laziness and anger. They lead to the fact that visitors will not visit your resource and buy your products, and they will not want to deal with your company at all.

29.10.2008
Your health

The myth of "Health"

The national project "Health" is a myth. According to the experts of the Society of Evidence-based Medicine Specialists, there is no special program to improve the level of healthcare in Russia.

29.10.2008
Controversial

Religion: a useful adaptation, a by-product of evolution or a "brain virus"?

"Evolutionary ethics" is already a fully formed and recognized scientific direction, and today, before our eyes, "evolutionary religious studies" is also rapidly gaining strength. Interest in this topic is growing not only in the scientific community, but also among the general public.

28.10.2008
Biomedicine

Postgenomic biotechnologies

The pharmaceutical industry development program assumes that about 200 domestic medicines should be created by 2020. Several dozen of them should be innovative means of a new generation. The creation of such drugs is the main task of the Department of Postgenomic Biotechnologies of the Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

28.10.2008
New in Gerontology

Anti-Aging Science

Russia has developed a global scientific program to combat aging, which can become the basis of a national strategy for life extension.

28.10.2008
Healthy skepticism

Shizelen

7% of Americans belong to the so-called dark green – people who fanatically care about the environment. It is not yet clear whether this behavior is determined by environmental motives or whether we are talking about a disorder bordering on neurosis.

27.10.2008