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Note to the businessman

A miracle cure

Shares of the biotech company Pharmacyclics have risen forty times in six years. Will she continue to be successful?

06.05.2014
Prolonging youth

Blood as a source of youth: new data

Two independent groups of researchers have once again demonstrated the rejuvenating effect of blood components of young mice on the state of the brain and muscle tissue of old animals.

06.05.2014
Other life sciences

Do you want to lose weight? Eat more fiber!

Acetic acid, one of the breakdown products of dietary fiber in the intestine, directly affects the hypothalamus, which is known to regulate hunger and eating behavior.

05.05.2014
Biomedicine

Iron nerves

For the first time in the history of science, a group of Chinese biomedical scientists used a liquid metal alloy to fuse and restore the functionality of the severed nerve tissues of experimental animals.

05.05.2014
Various

The Public Chamber talked about the prevention of aging

The round table "Prevention of aging" was held in the Public Chamber of Russia. Its participants noted that the limit of human life is reduced due to various harmful factors, including the lack of prevention of aging.

05.05.2014
Various

Learn to count!

According to VTsIOM, about 78% of Russian citizens feel happy. And that this figure is radically at odds with the data of 2012, obtained by the New Economics Foundation, and 2013, from the World Happiness Report, so VTsIOM is probably more objective :)

30.04.2014
Cloning

Cloned beta cells of a diabetic patient

Having transplanted genetic material from skin cells of a patient with type I diabetes into someone else's egg, scientists obtained a culture of embryonic cells, which were then "re-educated" into insulin cells of the pancreas.

30.04.2014
Biomedicine

Pancreatic cancer drug ready for clinical trials

Pancreatic cancer cells develop resistance to the traditionally used doxorubicin especially quickly. A drug that suppresses the synthesis of proteins that provide this resistance significantly increases the effect of treatment.

30.04.2014
Exhibitions and conferences

Moscow Life Sciences Investment Day – 2014

The first international conference will become a tool for attracting investments in healthcare, biotechnologies, private clinics, biopharmaceuticals, medical services, equipment and devices, Digital Health, bioinformatics, laboratory diagnostics, regenerative and personalized medicine.

30.04.2014
Various

The novelty is different

Among the new drugs entering the market, there are actually very few that are actually new. Synthesis of fundamentally new medicinal substances is a rare phenomenon.

29.04.2014
Grants and competitions

II Bioinformatics Summer School

The Summer School is held annually for students studying bioinformatics, as well as undergraduates, graduate students and young scientists of mathematical, technical and biological specialties interested in bioinformatics.

29.04.2014
Grants and competitions

"Young, daring, promising" – 2014

The Committee for Science and Higher Education of St. Petersburg is holding a competition of business ideas, scientific and technical developments and research projects in 2014 under the motto "Young, daring, promising".

29.04.2014
Various

How to become immortal…

If more and more people reach the age of 100, then a natural question arises: how long are we theoretically able to live at all? And what can it cost us?

28.04.2014
Theories of aging

What is aging and how to deal with it

There are many theories of aging, and all specialists dealing with this problem feel the need for an integral approach, the need for a common concept that would unite different theories.

28.04.2014
Other life sciences

Alzheimer's disease: a dangerous mistake

Although the chaperone Hsp90 prefers already folded proteins, it nevertheless binds to the tau protein. An international team of scientists has deciphered the mechanisms of this process and offers a new target for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

28.04.2014