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Innovative Russia

RUSNANO earned its first millions

From the net profit of Ruskhimbio LLC, more than three million rubles were allocated for the payment of dividends in favor of Rusnano.

28.07.2011
Controversial

Is a cancerous tumor an independent biological species?

Heretical hypothesis: the cause of cancer is large-scale chromosomal rearrangements, not point mutations in several genes. Cancer cells eventually get a relatively stable karyotype, which makes it possible to name each cancer a new biological species.

28.07.2011
Exhibitions and conferences

Personnel for the new biomedical industry

On September 10, 2011, the MIPT will host an All–Russian conference with elements of a scientific school, which will focus on training personnel for a new type of industry - the biomedical industry.

27.07.2011
Genetic engineering

The IL-15Ra gene interferes with a bad runner

Mice deprived of the IL-15Ra gene can run six times longer than their "normal" relatives. Certain variants of this gene are very common in athletes – runners and long-distance cyclists.

26.07.2011
Innovative Russia

Innovative high Michurinsky biotechnologies

The technopark in the field of high biotechnologies should start operating in the city of Michurinsk in the near future. Where high biotechnologies and innovations are hidden there, neither from the text of the note nor from the video can be understood.

26.07.2011
New in Gerontology

Another reason for senile dementia

With senile dementia, a person pays for the years lived after the loss of reproductive abilities. In monkeys, fertility persists until the end of life, and their brains degrade much less in old age than in humans.

26.07.2011
Healthy skepticism

Lies, blatant lies and advertising

Advertising and packaging of various kinds of products contain countless amounts of information that is either half-truth or half-lie.

25.07.2011
Bioethics

Rules for Dr. Moreau's heirs

The authors of the report "Animals containing human material" believe that the area of special attention should be attempts to give animals the traits that make up human essence.

25.07.2011
Your health

A pill for sclerosis

Almost half of patients with chronic diseases forget to take their medications on time. And if a course of several medications and a complicated schedule is prescribed? Here a healthy person will feel like a sclerotic.

22.07.2011
Biomedicine

A vaccine against heroin addiction has been created

In response to the introduction of the "dynamic vaccine", antibodies against heroin and its derivatives began to be synthesized in the body. As a result, four out of seven experimental drug addicts voluntarily and without additional treatment refused heroin.

22.07.2011
Your health

Sunscreen? Better a hat and an awning!

Staying in the shade and wearing hats and closed clothes protects the skin from burns and possible development of skin cancer much more reliably than widely advertised sunscreens.

21.07.2011
Other life sciences

If you want to be a father...

Half of the men have one defective copy of the DEF126 gene, a quarter have both, and their sperm cannot reach the egg. With all the consequences. And it's better not to read about what smoking, even passive smoking, does to sperm…

21.07.2011
Genetics

Moore 's Genome

The personal genome of Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel and the author of the famous Moore's law on the rate of increase in the number of transistors on a chip, was sequenced using thousands of chips with 1.2 million tiny holes on each.

21.07.2011
Exhibitions and conferences

Patents'2011

The second All-Russian practical conference "Patents'2011" will be held on October 7, 2011 in the building of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (6 Ilyinka St., Moscow).

21.07.2011
Note to the businessman

Buy BigFarma shares!

Shares of Big Pharma players are always popular with investors who consider such an investment as one of the reliable ways to get a stable income and increase the cost of capital.

20.07.2011