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Innovative Russia

ExoAthlete: confident steps to the market

The company "Exorobotics" plans to carry out certification and in a year to put on sale an "ExoaThlet" designed for the rehabilitation of patients who have lost the ability to walk.

24.11.2014

Note to the businessman

From shady scientists to charlatans

In Russia, due to the peculiarities of science financing and the state of the economy, there are several models of combining entrepreneurial and scientific activities.

24.11.2014

Other life sciences

Computer games are more effective than antidepressants

Another study showed that in a month of computer games (30 hours a week), the condition of elderly patients improved in the same way as in 2 months of taking traditional antidepressants.

24.11.2014

Other life sciences

Hydrogel will help with heart failure

Implantable hydrogel may revolutionize the treatment of heart failure in patients with enlarged left ventricle.

21.11.2014

Note to the businessman

R&D in pharmaceuticals has gone up 2.5 times in 10 years

The cost of developing and launching a drug on the market has increased by 145% compared to 2003. The total cost of creating a new drug, including post-registration studies, reaches $2.9 billion.

21.11.2014

Cellular technologies

Artificial organ transplantation will become a common practice in 10 years

What "spare parts" for a person may appear in the near future? Liver and kidney factories – fiction or reality? What are the prospects for regenerative medicine?

21.11.2014

Other life sciences

Bacteria of completeness and forgetfulness

Gastritis – from improper nutrition, excess weight from hormonal disorders, and caries from sweets. These statements have been considered true for years, but recently scientists have found out that everything is wrong, and these and many other of our troubles are to blame... bacteria.

21.11.2014

Various

Genes, cells and biotechnologies

On November 30, Sergey Kiselyov, Chief Researcher of the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, will speak as part of the Festival of Public Lectures #KNOW. The topic of the lecture is "Genes, cells and biotechnologies".

21.11.2014

Innovative Russia

Translational Biomedicine at St. Petersburg State University

The grant of 750 million rubles will provide support for scientific research in the field of biomedicine and turn the developments of geneticists, physiologists, bioinformatics, psychologists into new ways of treating human diseases.

21.11.2014

Genetic engineering

Hemophilia gene therapy: the first success

After gene therapy, the frequency of spontaneous bleeding in patients with severe hemophilia B decreased by 90%, and the frequency of use of the blood clotting factor IX drug decreased by 92%.

20.11.2014

Various

Wars, smoking and obesity cause the same harm to the economy

The damage caused to the world economy by the problem of obesity is almost equal to the damage caused by smoking and armed conflicts.

20.11.2014

Genetics

The results of studies on mice can not always be transferred to humans

Scientists have questioned the fact that the results of studies on mice can always be transferred to humans. The reason for the doubt is that the work of genes in mice and humans is regulated differently.

20.11.2014

Various

Drop it?

International Smoking Cessation Day is celebrated every year on the third Thursday of November. In 2014, it falls on November 20.

20.11.2014

Other life sciences

Scared? Smell the oxytocin!

German scientists have demonstrated in humans how a nasal spray containing the "hormone of love" – oxytocin – contributes to the suppression of fear.

20.11.2014

Your health

If you want to be slim, don't work at night

Shift work goes against the fundamental biology of the human body, and people working the night shift are about twice as likely to be obese.

19.11.2014

Biomedicine

The work of the diaphragm after a fracture of the cervical vertebrae can be restored

The new procedure restores the functioning of the respiratory muscles of the diaphragm, even if they were paralyzed more than a year ago.

19.11.2014

Your health

About evidence-based medicine, demography, epidemiology and much more

Transcript (very, very long!) lectures by Professor of the Higher School of Economics, President of the Society of Evidence-Based Medicine Specialists Vasily Vlasov, delivered on November 15, 2014 as part of the Festival of Public Lectures #KNOW.

19.11.2014

New in Gerontology

A new role of telomeres in the aging process has been discovered

Even before telomeres reach a critical length, their slow shortening affects the regulation of genes that potentially contribute to aging and the development of age-related diseases.

19.11.2014

Genetics

Innate orientation

The results of another study confirmed that a person's sexual orientation is determined by his genome. However, one should not assume that scientists have already found some "homosexuality genes".

19.11.2014

Other life sciences

Fooled macrophages

Under the action of substances secreted by cancer cells, macrophages cease to synthesize anti-tumor cytokines and begin to secrete molecules that accelerate tumor growth and blood vessel germination, cease to attract and initiate other cells of the immune system and begin to block the antitumor immune response.

18.11.2014