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New in Gerontology

To live for a long time, you need to study well, son!

According to the degree of influence on mortality (regardless of whether this influence is direct or indirect), IQ and "reliability" turned out to be almost as significant factors as a combination of smoking, high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

23.10.2008
Bioethics

Preimplantation diagnostics: sorting embryos

Modern medicine is able to perform preimplantation genetic screening, that is, to determine the presence of a number of genes that will lead to the development of serious hereditary diseases.

22.10.2008
Exhibitions and conferences

Biotechnology 2008

The Ministry of Industry and Science of the Ministry of Defense and the International Center for Technological Cooperation (ICTC) invite you to take part in the conference "Biotechnology 2008", which will be held on October 30, 2008 in the science city of Pushchino. The conference is devoted to the discussion of topical issues of the introduction of scientific achievements in the field of biotechnology into the production practice of the Moscow region.

21.10.2008
Biomedicine

Do our illnesses depend on nationality?

Resistance or susceptibility to certain diseases can be encoded in our genes. And in many ways it depends on the place of permanent residence of the people to which a person belongs. The direction in science that studies this problem is called "ethnogenomics".

20.10.2008
Biomedicine

Autoantibodies: find and prevent future illness

Scientists want to create a complete picture of autoantibodies and give doctors a tool that will allow predicting the development of diseases long before the first clinical signs appear.

20.10.2008
Grants and competitions

Competition of innovative developments "Polyclinic of the XXI century"

The Innovation Development Awards are awarded for the most relevant scientific research and developments that have received public recognition and make a significant contribution to the development of medicine in the specialties accepted for participation in the competition.

20.10.2008
Exhibitions and conferences

Nanobiotechnology 2008

The first Interdisciplinary Symposium "NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY 2008" will be held on October 29 at the I.M. Sechenov MMA.

20.10.2008
Note to the businessman

Global biopharmaceutical market: dynamics and forecast

The main advantages of the biopharmaceutical market are the rapid and efficient development of production capacities, the development of effective drugs, and the active expansion of such segments as bioinformatics and diagnostics.

17.10.2008
Exhibitions and conferences

ACHEMA 2009

The 29th International Exhibition and Congress on Chemical Developments, Environmental Protection and Biotechnology ACHEMA 2009 (May 11-15, 2009, Frankfurt am Main Exhibition Center, Germany).

17.10.2008
Genetics

DNA genealogy: Slavs and "Indo-Europeans" (Part 1)

Haplogroups and haplotypes do not determine the shape of the skull or nose, hair color, physical or mental characteristics of a person in any way. But they forever bind the carrier of the haplotype to a certain human race, at the beginning of which there was a patriarch of the family, whose offspring survived and lives today, unlike millions of other broken genealogical lines.

16.10.2008
Biomedicine

Your genome has been decoded. What's next?

New genetic companies for about $ 1 thousand will scan the genome of anyone who wishes and inform the customer of the information they are interested in. But does commercial DNA scanning contribute to improving the health of individuals and the nation as a whole?

16.10.2008
Exhibitions and conferences

International Congress on Andrology

1st Congress of the Eurasian Association of Andrologists. The 4th Congress of the Professional Association of Andrologists of Russia (Sochi, Dagomys, May 28-31, 2009).

16.10.2008
Grants and competitions

START-09

The Fund for Assistance to the Development of Small Forms of Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere announces the implementation in 2009 of the START-09 program for financing innovative projects at the initial stage of development.

16.10.2008
Genetics

How to draw genes

At the current stage of development of functional genomics, it has become possible to determine which genes are expressed in different parts of the body — "work" and which "sleep". And not just to determine, but to obtain three—dimensional images of the distribution of gene activity in all organs and tissues - to create so-called atlases of gene expression.

16.10.2008
Your health

Self-mutilation

About how justified self-medication is, as well as what dangers are fraught with our favorite painkillers, our conversation today with Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics of MGMSU Vladimir Drozdov.

16.10.2008