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Innovative Russia

Skolkovo 's Apology

Any major project in Russia is criticized, often very sharply. However, it is difficult to say unequivocally that everything has failed today in relation to the Skolkovo innograd.

14.09.2012
Other life sciences

Chemotherapy causes cognitive impairment

Side effects of breast cancer chemotherapy can manifest as mild disorders of cognitive functions, including speech capabilities and the ability to navigate in space.

13.09.2012
Grants and competitions

Graduate school at Rockefeller University

Rockefeller University (New York, USA) announces the next enrollment in graduate school in biomedicine and a wide range of life sciences.

13.09.2012
Cellular technologies

Stem cells restored hearing in gerbils

Successful testing of stem cells on rodents allows us to hope for success in the treatment of people suffering from sensorineural hearing loss.

13.09.2012
Biomedicine

New molecule will neutralize cancer cells

By changing the state of the cytoskeleton, the newly identified molecule deprives cancer cells of two of the most dangerous abilities at once: to divide and move.

12.09.2012
Your health

Wine is healthier than vodka: tested on pigs

Scientists have concluded that red wine has the greatest positive effect on the heart of pigs with elevated cholesterol levels and its mechanism of action differs from the mechanism of action of vodka.

12.09.2012
Grants and competitions

Postgraduate Course in Biomedicine in Basel

The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research announces the recruitment of young specialists to study under the international postgraduate program with a PhD degree from the University of Basel.

12.09.2012
Note to the businessman

Forbes announces a new startup competition

Startups created no earlier than September 1, 2011, but with an already existing prototype of a technology, product, or the fact of the first sale, if we are talking about services, can take part in the Forbes competition. There are no restrictions on the field of activity.

11.09.2012
Your health

Placebo and nocebo work in the subcortex

Placebo and nocebo effects may occur not as a result of (self-) suggestion, but at an unconscious level, even before information enters the cerebral cortex.

11.09.2012
Genetics

Ancient genome reveals its secrets

The results of the genome analysis of the girl, whose remains were found in 2008 in the Denisov cave in Altai, shed light on the kinship between the "Denisov man" and modern people.

11.09.2012
Exhibitions and conferences

ImagineNano-2013

The second exhibition of achievements of world nanoscience and nanotechnology "ImagineNano" will be held in Bilbao (Spain) on April 23-26, 2013.

11.09.2012
Biomedicine

The brain is wide open

The experimental treatment method, tested so far on laboratory rats, increases the saturation of the brain with low-molecular therapeutic compounds several times.

10.09.2012
Genetic engineering

Alzheimer's disease: a new target

Removal of the gene of one of the enzymes in mice with the Alzheimer's disease model led to a record improvement in all typical symptoms and objective indicators of the disease.

10.09.2012
Genetics

New genes of predisposition to glaucoma

Three genetic variants associated with primary angle–closure glaucoma, a disease that is the leading cause of blindness in the population of Asian countries, were found.

07.09.2012
Other life sciences

Walking with an exoskeleton

The Kessler Foundation charity has released preliminary results of a clinical trial of the Ekso wearable robotic exoskeleton for patients with spinal cord injury.

07.09.2012