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Various

About the anti-vaccination movement and anti-vaccination disinformation

Anti-vaccination fighters operate with a set of cleverly packaged false information that defames vaccination in general and individual vaccines in particular. It is thanks to the mythical nature of anti-vaccination misinformation that circulates in the minds of the population.

08.10.2009
Your health

Unsubstantiated medicine

A lot of things in medicine do not have a good scientific foundation at all, some things do not have anything scientific at all, and much is based on very weak, useless scientific research.

08.10.2009
Cellular technologies

Cell therapy: a losing streak

The stem cell-based drug closest to entering the market has not passed final trials, and the first clinical trials of therapy using embryonic stem cells have been postponed indefinitely.

08.10.2009
Exhibitions and conferences

Biotechnology, health and quality of life

The results of the International Scientific Conference on Bioorganic Chemistry, Biotechnology and Bionanotechnology dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the birth of Academician Yuri Anatolyevich Ovchinnikov have been summed up.

08.10.2009
Other life sciences

Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Biophysics

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has become a substitute for the non-existent prize in biology, as well as an addition to the inadequately small prize in physics for such an extensive discipline. All the "true chemists" were left behind.

07.10.2009
Prolonging youth

The genetic source of youth

Researchers developing means to prolong youth have two more potential targets – proteins, the inactivation of which prolongs the life of experimental animals and allows them to maintain good physical and mental shape until old age.

07.10.2009
Healthy skepticism

Mister, you're pregnant!

30 patients of one of the British hospitals, including six elderly men, were notified that the planned operation would have to be postponed due to their pregnancy.

07.10.2009
Healthy skepticism

Organic food is a dangerous toy

The fashionable craze for organic products is far from safe for health and also hinders the development and introduction of advanced technologies into agriculture.

07.10.2009
Other life sciences

Nobel 2009: more than for "aging and cancer"

The discoveries of today's Nobelists are presented through the winning theme of cancer and aging. Today it is clear that telomeres and telomerase are not directly related to aging. But these discoveries turned a new page in the history of science.

06.10.2009
Genetic engineering

DNA synthesis was put on the conveyor

Potential buyers of serial synthetic DNA are industrial chemical and pharmaceutical companies, as well as academic institutions. This promises a gradual transfer to the industrial rails of not just biotechnologies, but their youngest part – synthetic biology.

06.10.2009
Biomedicine

Male contraception: just one shot

Most hormonal contraceptives are designed for women. The new contraceptive will be taken by men, and not in the form of pills, but in the form of injections twice a month.

06.10.2009
Cellular technologies

Stem cell banking: current issues

An international symposium "Topical issues of donor and personal storage of stem cells" was held in Moscow.

06.10.2009
Controversial

Is the study of stem cells moving there?

Biologist Arthur Lander believes that the search for a complex of molecular characteristics that are universal for all stem cells is an overly simplistic view that can direct the development of science in the wrong direction.

05.10.2009
Nanotechnology

Nanoparticles in medicine and pharmaceuticals

There are 5 main areas of application of nanotechnology in medicine and pharmaceuticals: drug delivery, new methods and treatments based on nanoparticles, in vivo and in vitro diagnostics, medical implants.

05.10.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

And maybe their own peptides...

Peptides are universal regulators of many processes occurring in our body, including stimulation or suppression of immunity. Vladislav Deigin applied these properties of peptides to the development of drugs.

02.10.2009
Healthy skepticism

The 2009 Nobel Prizes

On Thursday, October 1, the XIX ceremony of awarding the IgNobel Prize – the Shnobel (Ignobel) prizes took place at Harvard University.

02.10.2009
Various

Elderly Russia: how does the 30 millionth generation live?

The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion presents data on what Russians think about the elderly, how, in the opinion of our fellow citizens, their rights are respected, whether the retirement age should be raised and what our compatriots expect to live in old age.

02.10.2009