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Your health

Federal target program "Cheap and bad pills for everyone"

At a round table organized by the ARFP, Deputy Head of Roszdravnadzor Elena Telnova said: "In 2008, it would have been possible to save more than two billion rubles and more than 1.2 billion rubles in the first half of 2009, if domestic drugs had won at auctions." The cynicism of this statement is limitless. For a doctor, medicines, like a patient, do not have a "nationality".

24.09.2009
Controversial

Immortality in 20 years?

The rapid development of technology can lead to the emergence of immortality in 20 years. At least according to one of the forecasts.

24.09.2009
Note to the businessman

How to make money on intellectual property?

On Amendments to Certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation on the creation of economic societies by budgetary scientific and educational institutions for the purpose of practical application (implementation) of the results of intellectual activity.

24.09.2009
Grants and competitions

Grants will be ordered to live a long time

Whether the grant system will be preserved in Russia, what will happen to the funds that finance scientific research – these are the questions that concern thousands of Russian scientists now.

24.09.2009
Note to the businessman

Do you want to receive investments from Rosnanotech?

The procedure and formats of participation of Rosnanotech Group in nanotechnology investment funds determines the uniform conditions and procedure for participation of Rosnanotech Group in nanotechnology investment funds and the creation of such funds together with partners of Rosnanotech Group.

24.09.2009
Prolonging youth

The Cure for Old Age live

The Trendonomics program (Finam FM) will talk about the cure for aging today. Ilya Polessky and three scientists are in the live broadcast studio.

23.09.2009
Innovative Russia

Hot Finnish innovators

More than 10% of the population work in innovative companies that exist in the city. The income of the high–tech sector in Oulu and its environs is approximately 5 billion euros per year.

23.09.2009
Your health

Isn't it time for you to see a geriatrician?

Gerontology, as the science of aging, believes that a person cannot live more than he is allotted by Nature. If so, what is the role of the geriatrician in modern medical practice?

18.09.2009
Biomedicine

Protein clumping, dementia and death

One of the causes of motor neuron disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases and a number of other neurodegenerative diseases is the adhesion of protein molecules into globules that destroy neurons.

18.09.2009
Biomedicine

Cannabinoid Controversy

Receptors binding tetrahydrocannabinol – the active ingredient of marijuana – are a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, but conflicting data on their presence on neurons hinder the development of new drugs.

18.09.2009
Exhibitions and conferences

The Future of Brain and Intelligence Sciences

The first All-Russian School "Into the Future of Brain and Intelligence Sciences" will be held from November 6 to 12, 2009 in the Moscow region.

18.09.2009
Other life sciences

Immune system: defender or bloody rubble?

The State cannot bypass the state security system. It also exists in a living organism – this is the immune system, whose task is both to identify and destroy foreign elements that have penetrated into the body, and to eliminate their own subjects whose behavior deviates from the prescribed.

17.09.2009
Prolonging youth

To prolong youth, train your brain

If the brain is not exercised, it will atrophy in the same way as unclaimed muscles. How to properly "pump up" intelligence?

17.09.2009
Other life sciences

Table tennis in a Petri dish

In an optoelectric "cup", single cells can be easily separated and grouped together and the movement of each of them can be controlled separately.

17.09.2009
Note to the businessman

Biotechnology a la francaise

France, being at the forefront of European countries in the field of biotechnology, has all the advantages to convince small and medium-sized enterprises engaged in biotechnology to make a choice towards their location on its territory.

17.09.2009