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New in Gerontology

Why do muscles age and how to deal with it

Researchers from the USA and Denmark have identified the main causes of muscle weakness in the elderly and have shown that the natural aging process of muscle tissue can be slowed down.

01.10.2009
Your health

Harmful "healthy" products

Grocery shopping sometimes turns into a detective investigation. In which of the bright packages is the next achievement of the chemical industry hidden, and where are useful and relatively natural products hidden?

30.09.2009
Your health

The dangers of losing weight

The secret of losing weight is simple to tears: spend more energy than you consume, and develop muscles so as not to look like a deflated balloon. But that's where different dangers lie in wait for us.

30.09.2009
Controversial

And now – immortality in 30 years...

Nano- and biotechnologies seem to be completely opposite, but they lead us to the same result – to a fundamental change in a person. The development of bioengineering can easily lead us to immortality...

30.09.2009
Nanotechnology

Prospects of nanotechnology

Nanomedicine and, more broadly, nanobiotechnology are the leading directions in the nanotechnology complex. Nanomedics and nanobiologists are expected to get rid of all diseases almost soon and invent a recipe for eternal youth.

29.09.2009
Nanotechnology

Nanoproducts: beware of fakes!

Manufacturers assign the brand "nanoproduct" even to those products that have nothing to do with nanotechnology or, conversely, hide that the composition of the product or its packaging includes nanoparticles with unconfirmed safety for humans and the environment.

29.09.2009
Genetics

Semen or Semenya: problems of choosing a sex

The activity with which the media were sucking up the issue of the gender of the South African runner Caster Semenya prompted The Scientist magazine to publish an article about the difficulties of sexual development.

29.09.2009
Grants and competitions

Competition of Russian innovations

The Russian Innovation Contest is your chance to get funding, attract attention to your project from investors and consumers, declare yourself, learn about other innovators, communicate with them and with members of the expert council.

29.09.2009
Biomedicine

Self-repair of the brain

The damaged part of the brain is not able to grow back. But the brain is sometimes able to transform existing tissue, forming unique structures and paving new neural pathways.

28.09.2009
Biomedicine

The near future of medicine: an optimistic scenario

In the next 20-30 years, telemedicine and robotics in healthcare, technologies for replacing human organs with artificial ones, effective methods of treating cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, personalized medicine and gene therapy will become the most widespread. Life expectancy will reach 100-120 years. But this is not the limit.

28.09.2009
Note to the businessman

Cord blood banks in the world and in Russia

In the coming years, Russia will narrow the gap with foreign countries in the field of cord blood banking. Today, 0.3% of women in labor use the services of stem cell banks; in 10 years, every 20th mother will use them.

28.09.2009
Grants and competitions

Small innovative enterprises, get STARTED!

The goal of the START-10 program is to assist small innovative enterprises at the initial stage of development in the development and creation of high–tech goods and services with great potential for commercialization.

28.09.2009
Exhibitions and conferences

Innovation, venture, talk shop...

The parties will "strive to coordinate efforts in the field of information support for the processes of promoting the development of entrepreneurial activity in the technological innovation sector and the venture investment system in order to inform Russian investment applicants about the mechanisms of venture investment, increase the attractiveness of alternative investments as a business development tool and expand communication opportunities for investors and investment applicants."

25.09.2009
Genetics

Genes of Chelyabinsk champions

Employees of UralGUFC are working on the creation of a complex of genetic tests, with the help of which a person can identify the makings for the manifestation of certain physical qualities, such as speed, strength, endurance.

25.09.2009
Bioethics

Transplantologists continue to smear tar

Alexander Komolov, head of the Kryvyi Rih Forensic Examination Bureau: "At first they offered me "kickbacks", then they broke my legs, and now they have opened a criminal case against me for violating the procedure of transplantation."

25.09.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Let's talk about biotechnology and business?

Vadim Govorun, a scientist and creator of an effective biotech business, talks about the prospects of Russian science, the role of the individual in its salvation and shares the main secret of success – it is necessary to build a new world around yourself.

25.09.2009
Exhibitions and conferences

Investors don't know, innovators don't want to

"... we don't have such forums so that everyone knows that there will be projects from Russia and investments, that you can come there every year... I have sent the information to all technoparks in Moscow. So far, the reaction is zero."

25.09.2009