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Innovative Russia

Biomedicine in Skolkovo

Currently, more than 140 startups in the field of systems biology, bioinformatics, biotechnology and in various fields of medicine are registered in the Skolkovo biomedical cluster.

05.04.2012
Exhibitions and conferences

Healthcare and medical devices in Russia

The first international conference "Healthcare and Medical Devices in Russia: Problems and solutions" will be held on May 23, 2012 in St. Petersburg.

05.04.2012
New in Gerontology

Why are they aging so slowly?

A new method for identifying proteins associated with the aging process of mammals will allow us to develop methods to slow down the process of natural aging and prevent age-related diseases.

04.04.2012
Genetics

Save on genome sequencing

Genome sequencing is the best tool for predicting "family" diseases; studying the personal genome helps to choose individual therapy more accurately. But for healthy people, gene analysis is practically useless.

04.04.2012
Innovative Russia

Export of non-traditional orientation

At the annual conference on the problems of economic and social development, E. Nabiullina proposed to get off the raw material needle and engage in "non-traditional exports".

03.04.2012
Nanotechnology

Vaccines in nanoparticles

The use of nanoparticle production techniques in the creation of vaccines can significantly reduce their price and increase efficiency.

03.04.2012
Other life sciences

Store your health data in a Biobank!

In the UK, the "Biobank" has been launched – the most extensive and detailed database, which includes medical and genetic data, as well as information about the lifestyle of half a million people.

03.04.2012
Exhibitions and conferences

Genetics of aging and life expectancy: admission is free

On April 22, the first day of the II International Conference "Genetics of Aging and Life Expectancy", world stars in this field will give 7 public lectures in the Great Hall of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It starts at 10.00, you need to register on the website and do not forget your passport.

02.04.2012
Biomedicine

Personalized medicine in the postoperative ward

Canadian doctors were the first in the world to use genetic analysis to select the drugs necessary for patients directly during treatment after coronary artery surgery.

02.04.2012
Grants and competitions

Make a dissertation at the expense of the Schering Foundation!

The peculiarity of the scholarship program is that the foundation finances dissertation research in any country of the world. Additionally, transportation costs and participation in scientific conferences are funded.

02.04.2012
Prolonging youth

Rapamycin: prolonging life without side effects?

The "drug of youth" – rapamycin – disrupts the functioning of two protein complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2. To significantly prolong life, it is enough to suppress the work of only the first of the rapamycin targets.

02.04.2012
Various

Cyborg-diagnostician floats on the body

The length of the prototype of the biomechanical robot "Cyberplasm", which will someday be able to diagnose diseases while inside the human body, is less than 1 cm, but scientists hope to reduce its size to 1 mm or even less.

02.04.2012
Biomedicine

Pharmaceutical and biomedical biotechnologies

From March 20 to 22, 2012, a scientific and practical conference "Pharmaceutical and biomedical biotechnologies" was held in the Moscow Government building.

02.04.2012
Cellular technologies

Stem cells in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases (6)

The development of methods for the treatment of multiple sclerosis using stem cells goes in two main directions: the suppression of an autoimmune reaction that destroys the myelin sheaths of nerve fibers and the transplantation of myelin-producing nerve progenitor cells.

30.03.2012
Cellular technologies

Stem cells in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases (4)

For Parkinson's disease – the second most common neurodegenerative disease – there is only symptomatic treatment. A number of experiments have shown the ability of stem cells to significantly increase the number of preserved dopaminergic neurons.

30.03.2012