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Note to the businessman

How to present a biotech project

I can't say that biotech projects are much more difficult to present than IT. With proper elaboration of the presentation at the same time, in 99% of cases it is possible to tell both the concept of the Internet service and the uniqueness of the molecule.

21.11.2012
Grants and competitions

Skolkovo Innovation Award – 2012

Technological projects based on the development and use of network and cloud technologies in energy conservation, healthcare and education are accepted for the competition.

21.11.2012
Your health

For beautiful ladies: 12 ways to harm beauty and health

Most of us have no idea to what extent our life consists of so-called bad habits. Meanwhile, the most dangerous of them can cause catastrophic damage: families are destroyed, health is killed, personality is destroyed.

21.11.2012
Other life sciences

The brain-computer interface is being improved

Engineers from Stanford University have created a new algorithm for decoding the electrical activity of the brain, which has doubled the efficiency of the machine-brain interface.

20.11.2012
Biomedicine

Disable the "harmful" part of immunity

The method of selective suppression of the immune system can be used to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases, as well as to prevent complications after organ transplantation.

20.11.2012
Biomedicine

"Mini-cells" against cancer

The results of the clinical study showed that the introduction of "mini-cells" from the bacterial membrane is safe, well tolerated and even stabilizes the condition of patients with the last stages of incurable malignant tumors using traditional methods.

20.11.2012
New in Gerontology

Telomere length is closely related to mortality

Researchers at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center and the University of California at San Francisco have identified a pronounced relationship between mortality and the length of telomeres - the end sections of chromosomes.

20.11.2012
Other life sciences

The hormone of monogamy

Researchers are sure that from now on oxytocin can be considered a hormone of monogamy and marital fidelity.

19.11.2012
Biotechnologies - into life

Stem cell treatment: wait a few years

Belarus and Russia will build a stem cell treatment clinic in Minsk. In addition to treatment, it is planned to organize joint production of stem cells.

19.11.2012
Other life sciences

Therapeutic parasites

The results of another study showed the possibility of therapeutic use of microscopic parasitic worm to normalize the composition of intestinal microflora in chronic inflammatory bowel diseases.

19.11.2012
Other life sciences

Contagious Parkinson's disease

The assumption that Parkinson's disease can be transmitted from neuron to neuron using the wrong spatial conformation of the alpha-synuclein protein was confirmed in healthy wild-type mice.

19.11.2012
Genetics

Mosaic Man

American geneticists have found out that a person is a "mosaic" of cells with different genomes. Approximately 30% of skin cells differ from each other in the number of copies of different DNA fragments; the same "genetic kaleidoscope" can be seen in other parts of the human body.

19.11.2012
Biomedicine

Cancer Immunotherapy: a mini-review

The reason for writing a review of advanced oncotherapy methods was the fact that the FDA included trastuzumab, a new drug for the treatment of an aggressive form of breast cancer, in its list of priorities.

15.11.2012
Genetics

"Alzheimer's genes": in second place – TREM2

An international group of scientists has reported the identification of the second most important genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, after the APOE 4 gene, which more than triples the chances of the carrier of this mutation for the development of the disease.

15.11.2012