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Other life sciences

New frontiers of photodynamic therapy

The improved PDT method allows it to be used for the treatment of not only superficial tumors, but also those located in the thickness of tissues.

22.05.2014
Various

ISEF: results of the competition

The main prize of $75,000 was awarded to a 15-year-old American schoolboy Nathan Han. He has developed software that studies gene mutations associated with the appearance of breast cancer.

22.05.2014
Other life sciences

Genomic bioinformatics

The task currently facing IT specialists working in the field of biomedicine is the integration of analyzed and systematized research results into clinical practice.

22.05.2014
Various

Challenges of a long life

A long life in very many cases means a long and, alas, extremely difficult, painful, painful old age. It is difficult for a person, for his loved ones and ultimately for the whole society.

21.05.2014
Cellular technologies

The adventures of an Italian in Russia

Paolo Macchiarini has been the head of the Center for Regenerative Medicine of the Kuban Medical University for several years. They managed to lure the professor to Krasnodar with the help of a megagrant of the Russian government of 150 million rubles. The center was created with this money.

21.05.2014
Biomedicine

Unique Russian HIV vaccine

One can argue about how good the Combivichvak vaccine developed in the Novosibirsk Vector Center is, whether it is possible to expect the necessary immune response from it, and even more so protection from the virus, but its uniqueness in design is undeniable.

21.05.2014
Other life sciences

Will Protectin DX help in the treatment of diabetes?

The lipid protectin DX synthesized in the body mimics some of the effects of exercise on blood glucose levels and can be used to treat insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.

21.05.2014
Grants and competitions

Competition for the development of biomedical devices

The Russian Foundation for Technological Development announces the holding of a competition for scientific, technical and innovative projects for the development of biomedical devices in order to provide the Fund with financial support for these projects.

20.05.2014
Various

The fuss over retirement age continues

The domestic pension system has already been so "modernized" that neither current nor future pensioners trust it. It would be nice to leave her alone, at least for a while, and do health care, which will increase life expectancy.

20.05.2014
Genetics

I recognize the cute one by... DNA

The DNA of two people living in a couple is much more similar to each other than the DNA of any other pair of arbitrarily considered men and women.

20.05.2014
Theories of aging

The Hunger Games

Already now we are faced with a choice: to take drugs that supposedly increase life expectancy, or not.

20.05.2014
Other life sciences

An old age pill: a search algorithm

MIPT specialists have presented an algorithm that can help in the search for drugs that slow down the aging process. The researchers, whose work is presented in the journal Frontiers in Genetics, compared the activity of genes in the cells of young and elderly patients.

19.05.2014
Various

On someone else 's misfortune

The way pharmaceutical companies set prices for medicines is "one of the dirty secrets of the industry," admitted Bernard Munos, a former representative of Lilly's management.

19.05.2014
Your health

Breast cancer: myths and facts

The controversial benefits of mammography, breast cancer in men, genes and preventive mastectomy, contraception and early pregnancy and rumors about the dangers of antiperspirants, phones, bras, implants and bruises.

19.05.2014