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Biomedicine

Drug delivery: tablets of the future are ready for testing

Clinical trials of biopolymer capsules intended for targeted drug delivery into the body will begin in the near future. They have already been dubbed the pills of the future.

28.04.2010

Bioethics

Bioethics and Medicine: More questions than answers

Organ transplantation, artificial insemination, genetic engineering, human cloning, the use of embryos, stem cell treatment and much more – is everything that is possible in medicine acceptable from the standpoint of bioethics?

28.04.2010

Other life sciences

Protein biosynthesis: made in Russia

Russian scientists from the non–profit organization "GeronLab" have managed to clarify the mechanism of communication between the two most important stages of the central process of living matter - protein biosynthesis.

28.04.2010

Various

Competition of journalists "Biotechnology in Russia": long live we!

Two out of ten prizes in four nominations of the competition "Biotechnology in Russia" were received by Evgenia Ryabtseva, well-known to regular visitors of our website. Congratulations to colleagues, and especially to Zhenya :)

28.04.2010

Various

Eurasian Russian Biotechnology

Raif Vasilov: The main fundamental achievement achieved at EurasiaBio is that Russia has declared itself at the highest level as a country that develops biotechnologies and bioindustry.

28.04.2010

Note to the businessman

Trends in healthcare: personalization of services

The new PricewaterhouseCoopers report on trends in the healthcare system "Forecast of healthcare development: personalization of diagnostic, care and treatment services" is published by the Institute

22.04.2010

Various

Molecular Biology is mortally wounded

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Georgy Georgiev: Due to funding cuts, the seven-year work on restoring world-class molecular and cellular biology in the country is in danger of collapse.

21.04.2010

Biomedicine

Cancer immunotherapy: with nanotubes – three times faster

In "conventional" adoptive immunotherapy, it takes several weeks to increase the concentration of T-lymphocytes to the desired level, and the use of nanotubes can reduce this period by three times.

21.04.2010

Grants and competitions

Competition of students' works in the field of nanotechnology and nanomaterials

MEPhI, together with basic higher educational institutions, holds in 2010 the All-Russian competition of research works of university students in the field of nanotechnology and nanomaterials.

21.04.2010

Your health

Vaccines, vaccination and their role in public health

Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Deputy Director General for Science of the International Institute of Vaccines M.Favorov: "You need to be vaccinated against everything that is at risk of infection and from which there is an effective vaccine."

21.04.2010

Healthy skepticism

Generator of youth: immortality – with everything and for nothing!

The "youth generator" is able to reduce the biological age by as much as you like, for example, up to 25-30 years. A person can live at this ideal age for as long as he wants. But immortality should not become the privilege of a group of individuals or even one state.

20.04.2010

Biotechnologies - into life

Development of new drugs: open innovations

The traditional model of drug development stops working. Global pharmaceutical companies are looking for a way out in the concept of open innovation. Russian companies also have a chance to fit into this concept.

20.04.2010

Biomedicine

Will macroketone stop metastases?

Macroketone neutralizes the action of fascin, a protein involved in the stabilization of actin fiber bundles. Without the formation of such bundles, cancer cells cannot move and, accordingly, form metastases.

19.04.2010

Genetics

Features of the national genome

Articles on decoding human genomes are published with pleasure by leading scientific journals. The staff of the Kurchatov Institute posted a brief report on the work in the newly created Russian scientific journal Acta Naturae.

19.04.2010

Biomedicine

Genetic testing: do you need it?

There is undoubtedly an interest in genetic testing in society. But people's expectations of him are usually overstated. Most would like to pass the perfect test that will give them a one hundred percent guarantee, and there simply are no such.

16.04.2010

Your health

And to survive the menopause, and to prevent osteoporosis

The disappearance of the estrogenic effect, characteristic of menopause, often leads to many undesirable consequences. One of the serious consequences of menopause is osteoporosis.

16.04.2010

Biomedicine

Pancreatic prosthesis normalizes insulin and glucagon

The artificial pancreas controls glucose levels and, with the help of a software–controlled pump, injects the necessary amount of the desired hormone – insulin or its antagonist - glucagon.

16.04.2010

Your health

Eurasian Biotechnology Federation

The founders of the Eurasian Biotechnology Federation (EABF) were the leading biotechnological states of the continent: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, India, Mongolia and Austria.

16.04.2010

Genetics

Different diseases – from the same gene complex?

Disorders of the activity of the same genes are to blame for the development of diabetes, atherosclerosis, heart disease, cancer and other diseases. This indicates the possibility of using drugs used in the treatment of other diseases in cancer therapy.

16.04.2010

Healthy skepticism

In 10 years, Russia will enter the top five largest economies in the world

As bonuses, the population will receive an average salary of $ 2,700 per month and a life expectancy of 75 years. And all this after some ten years. This was stated by the head of the presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergey Naryshkin. The article is NOT April Fools!

15.04.2010