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Innovative Russia

MIPT to open Center for the Study of Aging

The Center's research will focus on the study of the most significant problems of molecular and cellular biology, the solution of which will contribute to understanding the nature of aging and related diseases.

20.10.2015
Other life sciences

30,000 neurons in a computer

According to the head of the Blue Brain Project, this is not yet a confirmation that scientists are actually able to reconstruct the human brain, consisting of 85 billion or more neurons, but the first step.

19.10.2015
Genetics

Typical Yakut hereditary disease: thoughts about

It is not the number of hereditary diseases that is growing, but the amount of our knowledge about them. It's just that many similar cases went unnoticed before, because there were no diagnostic methods. hereditary diseases,

19.10.2015
Biomedicine

Malaria vaccine has become a candidate for cancer drugs

Danish and Canadian biologists, studying the effect of the malaria vaccine on the body of pregnant women, accidentally discovered a promising property of this vaccine that can help in the fight against cancer.

19.10.2015
Biomedicine

AIDS: a single-chain full-length vaccine

One of the discoverers of the human immunodeficiency virus has started the first stage of clinical trials of an AIDS vaccine that provides protection against HIV for 15 years.

16.10.2015
Your health

Cancer diagnosis: the price of error

Various errors in the diagnosis of cancer, according to independent experts, occur in almost 40% of cases. As a result – incorrectly chosen treatment tactics and a sad result.

16.10.2015
Prolonging youth

Gene therapy of aging: experience for yourself

Elizabeth Perish, the head of the startup BioViva, became the first person in the world to receive genetic therapy for aging. According to Perish, we are talking about the activation of telomerase using viral vectors and the introduction of structures that stimulate the synthesis of follistatin.

16.10.2015
Biomedicine

Vaccination against high cholesterol

A vaccine that selectively affects the PCSK9 molecule – a protein involved in cholesterol metabolism – is a cost-effective alternative to modern expensive drugs.

15.10.2015
Various

"There is no national science"

Immunologist Alexander Rudensky, who seriously claimed the Nobel Prize this year, – about Russian scientists and cancer treatment.

15.10.2015
Note to the businessman

Venture Market statistics

The volume of capital in the market has not changed much, which, taking into account the departure of a number of major foreign players from the industry, suggests that the industry of Russian – in the long term – innovations remains attractive and interesting for investors.

15.10.2015
Innovative Russia

Happy sailing, "Bebig"!

Rusnano announces the withdrawal from the capital of the portfolio company "Bebig" – the only Russian manufacturer of micro sources for low-dose brachytherapy of prostate cancer.

15.10.2015
Exhibitions and conferences

III Moscow Corporate Venture Summit

The main topic of the 2015 Summit is the growth trajectories of Russian companies in the context of serious changes in the global economy.

15.10.2015
Exhibitions and conferences

Science + Business =…

During the II Congress "Innovative Practice: Science plus Business" there will be an exhibition of projects in the following areas: information technologies, biomedical technologies, bionanosystems and pharmaceuticals, etc.

15.10.2015
Biomedicine

A new target for the development of male contraceptives

A group of Japanese physiologists and biochemists have learned to reduce sperm motility in male mice using immunosuppressants, "disabling" the motility of the middle part of the sperm (connecting the tail and head).

15.10.2015
Healthy skepticism

Epigenetics and homosexuality: debriefing

Another loud sensation has shaken the field of science, where for a quarter of a century they have been tirelessly searching for "homosexuality genes": after all, there is this gene! "No, nothing like that!" the opponents immediately replied.

14.10.2015
Various

Aging is our common future

On October 9, the III National Conference "Society for All Ages", organized by the Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation with the support of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, ended in Moscow.

14.10.2015
Healthy skepticism

"Healthy" fatty acids and other dietary myths

Taking omega-3 fatty acids, lutein and zeaxanthin, horse doses of ascorbic acid and antioxidants and many other popular dietary supplements and "healthy" products does not benefit anyone except their manufacturers and sellers.

14.10.2015
Genetic engineering

Experts – about editing the genes of humans and pigs

Editing human genes can form the basis of promising methods of treating serious diseases, but they cause a lot of doubts. Genetically modified pigs as a source of donor organs are of little less concern to specialists.

14.10.2015