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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
Note to the businessman

There is also a venture fund in Kuban – look through the microscope!

The shareholders of the project are a venture fund established by the regional administration and private investors. Priority areas are biotechnologies, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, new materials, nanotechnology, alternative energy, energy engineering, IT technologies.

16.09.2009
Genetics

History of genomics. Part 2: DNA technologies

The improvement of sequencing technologies and even more so DNA adjustments will give rise to new social, ethical and philosophical problems. The development of DNA technologies is inevitable, and someday they will become available (if not mandatory) for everyone.

16.09.2009
Cellular technologies

Is the brain out of order? Inhale the stem cells!

Stem cells can be used to treat Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, to restore brain functions after a stroke. Perhaps someday the delivery of stem cells to the brain using nasal spray will become the norm.

16.09.2009
Note to the businessman

Pharmaceutical business and science

Journalists were impressed not so much by the hypothetically miraculous properties of the advertised drug, as by the emotional and patriotic history of the development of science in a commercial firm.

15.09.2009
Prolonging youth

In search of a cure for old age

Currently, there is no effective "cure for aging". And I really want to live for a long time.

14.09.2009
Innovative Russia

Science in Russia: Chudakov's Dreams

A young scientist Dmitry Chudakov, head of the group of molecular instruments for immunology and neurobiology of the IBH RAS, talks about how to effectively organize scientific research in our country.

14.09.2009
Exhibitions and conferences

School-seminar "Nanobiotechnology"

Areas of work: fundamental and applied aspects of nanobiotechnology; nanopharmacology, nanomedicine, nanodiagnostics and nanoimplantology; nanobiotechnology in agriculture.

14.09.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Binnopharm to open pharmaceutical plant

The main strategy of Binnopharm CJSC is to produce drugs that replace imported medicines that will not be inferior to foreign analogues in quality and at the same time differ favorably in price.

14.09.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Express tests: self-diagnosis

On pharmacy shelves you can find a lot of rapid tests for pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV, blood glucose, cholesterol levels, myocardial infarction… How do they work and can they be trusted?

14.09.2009
Healthy skepticism

Stem cells go to IPO: diagnosis is clear, prognosis is not

"Of course you will live. People live with Putin and Medvedev," the oncologist surgeon comforted the cancer patient. Let's see if the Human Stem Cell Institute can live happily ever after with such a diagnosis.

14.09.2009