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Grants and competitions

Alexander von Humboldt – for great scientists

The A. von Humboldt Foundation offers grants and scholarships to foreign scientists for the implementation of their research projects together with German colleagues. The only selection criterion is the scientific qualification of the applicants.

09.06.2011
Exhibitions and conferences

High technologies in physiology and medicine

II International Scientific and Practical Conference "High Technologies, fundamental and Applied research in Physiology and Medicine" (October 26-28, 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia).

08.06.2011
Genetic engineering

Genetically modified plants, agriculture and society

The Parliamentary Assembly of a huge region is discussing the prospects for the use of genetically modified organisms at the same time as in the minds of the population, one mention of it causes utter confusion.

08.06.2011
Your health

How to fight off E. coli

Rospotrebnadzor and WHO – on the prevention of infection with enterohemorrhagic E. coli. Those who are warned are armed.

08.06.2011
Grants and competitions

Postdoctoral Fellowships for life sciences Research

The French Human Frontier Science Program offers postdoctoral fellowship programs in the framework of fundamental transnational and interdisciplinary research in the field of life sciences.

08.06.2011
Biomedicine

Will vaccination help against obesity?

The vaccine causes the production of antibodies to the "hunger hormone" – ghrelin, and by reducing its concentration in the blood, it halves appetite and stimulates the burning of fat accumulations.

07.06.2011
Genetics

Is genetic testing a waste of money?

Predicting the risks of developing diseases, carried out with the help of genetic analysis, is no more effective than tossing a coin.

03.06.2011
Other life sciences

Biological supercomputer: don't laugh, he'll grow up

The "supercomputer" consists of 130 strands of DNA, and its largest contour, of 74 strands, is able to extract the square root of a number no larger than 15 in 10 hours. But someday…

03.06.2011
Bioethics

Ethics of synthetic biology

Discussing philosophical aspects, rather than trying to predict practical benefits and harms, will help society prepare for the inevitable changes that the further successes of synthetic biology are preparing for us.

03.06.2011