Articles

Note to the businessman

The collapse of patents: fly – it will become cheaper!

Last year, the process began, which has already been dubbed the "patent collapse". Innovative blockbuster medicines of the world's leading companies, created in the 90s of the twentieth century, began to lose patent protection one after another.

18.01.2012

Grants and competitions

German-Russian Partnership in Science, Education and Innovation

A new version of the agreement on strategic partnership between Russia and Germany in the field of education, research and innovation has been published on the website of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Moscow.

18.01.2012

Grants and competitions

Competition of scientific papers of young oncologists

The Federal State Budgetary Institution "N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology" of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia announces a competition of scientific papers of young scientists.

18.01.2012

Healthy skepticism

Healers under the wing of the authorities

It seems that pseudoscientific medicine, which flourishes not only in private but also in public hospitals, finds reliable patronage in the authorities and develops at a much faster pace than traditional healthcare.

17.01.2012

Prolonging youth

Rejuvenation of the membranes of aging nerves: and here young blood will help

As a result of the experiment on connecting the blood flows of old and young mice, the remyelination of the nerve sheath in elderly rodents began to go as well as in young animals.

17.01.2012

Your health

Peyronie's disease: take care of the most important thing!

Peyronie's disease is a disease in which cartilaginous plaques form in the protein membrane and cavernous bodies of the penis, leading to its curvature, severe pain during erection and erectile dysfunction.

16.01.2012

Various

Deodorants and breast cancer: it's not that simple

Traces of parabens were found in 99% of the analyzed breast tissue samples of patients diagnosed with breast cancer. At the same time, parabens are found even in the tissues of patients who have never used deodorants.

16.01.2012

Cellular technologies

Cord Blood Stem Cells against Type 1 Diabetes

Umbilical cord blood stem cells "retrain" T-lymphocytes of patients with type 1 diabetes, which partially restores insulin synthesis in the pancreas.

16.01.2012

Grants and competitions

Presidential Scholarships for study abroad

Announcement of the All-Russian open competition for scholarships of the President of the Russian Federation to study abroad for students and postgraduates of Russian universities in the 2012/2013 academic year.

13.01.2012

Note to the businessman

Pharmaceutical market: systematic offensive on all fronts

The global pharmaceutical market is steadily growing. By October 2011, the total sales volume on it reached 550.3 billion US dollars (as of September 2011, this figure was 547.8 billion).

13.01.2012

Biomedicine

To the attention of the fat and lazy: do you want a shot instead of physical education?

Injections of airizine will not make a Schwarzenegger choke, because this hormone is not involved in building muscle mass. But perhaps the drugs developed on its basis will be able to replace physical education for lazy people and gluttons :)

13.01.2012

Your health

Rejuvenation of senile diseases

"Younger" is not only osteochondrosis. Hypertension, atherosclerosis, diabetes, arthrosis – all these diseases a couple of decades ago were inherent mainly in older people, and now they are increasingly being detected in those who are barely thirty.

13.01.2012

Innovative Russia

Russian biopharmaceuticals: to cut a window to the West

The cooperation of Western biopharmaceutical companies and investors with Russian development institutes allows foreign specialists to establish effective interaction with drug developers from the Russian Federation, according to foreign experts.

13.01.2012

Various

Resveratrol: Beware of fakes!

Over the course of 7 years, Dr. Deepak Das fabricated and falsified data on 145 cases of the beneficial effects of resveratrol on the human body, officials from the University of Connecticut said.

13.01.2012

Genetics

Genome for a thousand dollars: we are going to the finish line

There is not much left until the end of the race for the sequencing of the personal genome for 1 thousand dollars and one day: if this barrier is not overcome this year, then they will take it next.

12.01.2012

Biomedicine

Prostate cancer, get drunk on poison!

"Smart" nanoparticles are able not only to distinguish between cancer and healthy prostate cells with absolute reliability, but also to penetrate into tumor cells, delivering the drug exactly to the target.

12.01.2012

Grants and competitions

500 starts-2012

The Fund for Assistance to the Development of Small Forms of Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere announces the holding of open competitions for small businesses under the START-2012 program.

12.01.2012

Cloning

Chimera monkeys

The bodies of each of the three monkeys born at the Oregon Primate Research Center consist of a mixture of cells from six embryos. In each of the chimera macaques born, there are tissues containing six different genomes.

12.01.2012

Prolonging youth

Probiotics increase life expectancy

If the results of clinical studies confirm the data of experiments on mice, probiotic bacteria of the LKM512 strain will help to increase human life expectancy and improve the health of the elderly.

11.01.2012

Prolonging youth

Young stem cells slow down aging

The introduction of young stem cells did not lead to a complete cure of progeria in mice, but perhaps the results obtained will help develop ways to prolong life with normal aging.

11.01.2012