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Biotechnologies - into life

HimRar: the success story is not over

Interview with Andrey Ivashchenko, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the HimRar Group of Companies, about the main trends in the global pharmaceutical industry, how to preserve scientific potential and convert it into a successful business, and what problems stand in this way.

25.01.2011
Biomedicine

Cocaine vaccine

The experimental vaccine is a combination of cocaine-like compound molecules and adenovirus particles that stimulate an immune response, but do not cause disease.

25.01.2011
Grants and competitions

Business of innovative technologies – 2011

Make the investor believe in you! Under this motto, the entrepreneurial competition "Business of Innovative Technologies" is being held in Russia for the eighth time.

24.01.2011
Nanotechnology

RNA origami

Nanoparticles from RNA can be used in various fields of engineering and medicine, if you cope with the chemical instability of RNA and its rapid destruction by enzymes-RNases. This was achieved simultaneously by two groups of researchers.

24.01.2011
Biomedicine

AIDS Treatment: RNA with a homing warhead

An aptamer, a chain of nucleotides that recognizes one of the HIV proteins, drags a short interfering RNA through the virus envelope that blocks the reproduction of the immunodeficiency virus.

24.01.2011
Other life sciences

In the world of the cell

"Journey into the world of the cage" is a new excursion route of the St. Petersburg Museum of Hygiene.

21.01.2011
Controversial

An antidepressant bacterium?

In patients receiving injections of mycobacteria, the level of concomitant depression for oncological diseases significantly decreased. The authors are going to continue the experiments.

21.01.2011
Your health

To make him disappear, overweight!

Competent weight loss is a long and rather complicated event, despite the apparent simplicity of its basic principle "eat less and move more".

20.01.2011
Healthy skepticism

Germs will die from dirt

Another study by British scientists (TM) refutes the generally accepted ideas about personal hygiene.

20.01.2011
Various

Orphans on the market of medicines

The orphan drug market remains by no means paramount for the development of pharmaceutical companies. Therefore, the main driver of the orphan drugs market development is government preferences to pharmaceutical companies operating in this segment.

20.01.2011
Various

Medicines-2010

In 2010 The FDA has approved 21 new drugs. 6 biological and 15 low-molecular-weight medicines have successfully passed the control of regulatory authorities.

20.01.2011
Nanotechnology

Shooting at the tumor with separable warheads

Nanoparticles, which, upon contact with cancer cells, are split into smaller objects, will allow drugs to penetrate deeper into the tumor tissue, providing more effective treatment.

20.01.2011
Your health

Cell therapy of neurodegenerative diseases

With proper methodology and compliance with selection criteria, cell therapy is an effective and safe way to treat neurodegenerative diseases, in particular, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases.

20.01.2011
Other life sciences

A pill on a magnet

A gelatin capsule with a magnet inside will be able to release medicinal substances where they are best absorbed without damaging the intestinal wall.

19.01.2011
Biomedicine

Heart attack treatment: liposomes call for help

Researchers from Israel have proposed a fundamentally new strategy for the treatment of a heart attack: to activate the immune system with the help of liposomes carrying a molecular label characteristic of dying cells.

19.01.2011