Cellular technologies
Cell tourism? No matter what happens...
Clinics in many countries of the world offer untested, expensive and risky stem cell treatments to patients with serious diseases.
02.09.2010- English version
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Various
Do you want to study bioinformatics?
Bioinformatics courses at SPbAU are open to free listeners, are free of charge and are mainly aimed at senior students of mathematical and technical specialties interested in bioinformatics.
02.09.2010
Note to the businessman
Conditions for innovation will improve by an imaginary amount
Experts are not inclined to overestimate the initiative of the department: "Any step in this direction can only be welcomed – Russia lags far behind other countries in the field of innovation... But this step is tiny."
02.09.2010
Bioethics
Embryonic stem cells: there is a higher court...
The Obama administration has challenged the ban on government funding for embryonic stem cell research. If the judge refuses to reverse his decision, the US administration will appeal to the Washington Court of Appeals.
01.09.2010
Nanotechnology
Nanofilters: pure water without deception
The filter is based on ordinary cotton fabric, which is immersed for a few minutes in a solution of silver nanowires (precious metal takes very little to produce them, scientists say) and carbon nanotubes.
01.09.2010
New in Gerontology
The youth has gone wrong today…
Older people prefer to choose materials in the media with negative information about young people in order to increase their self-esteem and maintain a sense of self-worth, the lack of which they begin to experience as they age.
01.09.2010
New in Gerontology
The old age pill: another target
Researchers have found a promising key to anti-aging drugs of the future: to make worms live longer, it is enough to suppress only one ddr-2 gene.
01.09.2010
Grants and competitions
Additional competition for the program "Mikhail Lomonosov"
The joint scholarship program of DAAD and the Ministry of Education and Science provides Russian graduate students and teachers of technical and natural sciences with the opportunity to work on a dissertation and research in Germany.
01.09.2010
Healthy skepticism
About the bastard doctors
There is no profession in the world more harmful to people than a doctor. Even nuclear physicists have harmed the planet much less... And finally, tenth (and most importantly), they are disgusting just because they exist, these doctors are bastards.
30.08.2010
Innovative Russia
A lot of words about innovative business
Igor Zadvornov, Head of the Permanent Representative Office of the Governor's Administration and the Government of the Novosibirsk Region in Moscow – about the current state of innovative business in Russia and the ways of its development.
30.08.2010
Your health
Cancer alertness without carcinophobia
When these symptoms appear, you should not panic, but you need to understand that the sooner the cancer is detected, the more chances of a successful cure
30.08.2010
Nanotechnology
What is nano?
The first lecture "What is nano?" will be held at 12:00 on September 4, 2010. You can connect to the broadcast of the lectures of the "World of Nanotechnology" cycle on the Internet; at the end of the cycle (at the end of October), the materials will be published in open access.
30.08.2010
Note to the businessman
You are attractive for investment...
Due to the fact that the main purpose of investment activity is to ensure the most effective forms of capital investment, each business entity should pay special attention to its investment attractiveness.
30.08.2010
Bioethics
Defenders of the rights of embryos: expert comment
Does it make sense to discuss the possibility of using 50-100 blastocyst cells for the benefit of science and in the name of a chance to cure many patients, which should be destroyed, while abortion of a three-month-old fetus is legally allowed in many countries?
27.08.2010
Other life sciences
A circle of suspects the size of a biochip
When analyzing DNA using a new biochip, the probability of a random match of genotypes is 0.4%. This probability is too high to prove involvement in a crime, but it allows you to narrow down the circle of suspects.
27.08.2010
Innovative Russia
Winners of the competition of entrepreneurs-innovators
The summer training School on innovative entrepreneurship, organized with the support of Intel Corporation, Rusnano and Lomonosov Moscow State University, ended with a competition of entrepreneurial projects.
27.08.2010
Biotechnologies - into life
"HimRar" has started the sowing campaign
So far, HimRar has submitted one project to the seed fund, a drug for the treatment of alcohol addiction. In August, the firm plans to submit two more projects to the RVC FPI, and 5-10 projects by the end of the year.
27.08.2010
Various
Japanese Longevity: Skeletons in closets
Despite her daughter's protests, the administration representatives opened the door of Kato's room and found his mummified body. During the time when relatives said that Kato was alive, the state paid him a pension totaling almost 10 million yen.
27.08.2010
Other life sciences
Biosynthetic cornea
Griffith's group tried to find a replacement for donor tissues and synthetic corneas by resorting to the use of biosynthetic tissues derived from human collagen synthesized by genetically modified microorganisms.
27.08.2010
Note to the businessman
The price of innovation
In the vast majority of developed businesses, there is no need to put the issue of pricing at the forefront, since the market itself is able to adjust prices. The approach to pricing innovative products looks somewhat more complicated.
25.08.2010