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Your health

Swine flu: who is warned, is armed

At the numerous requests of workers and in connection with the ongoing hype around the "swine flu", the Russian doctor in the tropics once again explains what the H1N1-2009 strain is and how to deal with it.

02.09.2009
Innovative Russia

The main troubles of Russian innovations

Despite the desire of the state and the scientific community to calculate all the bumps and sharp turns of the "great innovation path", this path remains unpredictable.

02.09.2009
Grants and competitions

Presidential grants stimulate the growth of scientific schools

Young Russian scientists applying for grants from the President of the Russian Federation in 2009 will have to undergo a serious selection: candidates of sciences have on average more than seven declared projects per grant, doctors have almost six.

02.09.2009
Genetics

A genetically diverse brain

The cells from which the human brain is formed undergo genetic modifications during development. Perhaps this is how human individuality is ensured: even in identical twins, the brain is built from genetically dissimilar cells.

01.09.2009
Grants and competitions

Grants in Russian

What is the specifics of Russian grant support for science? Is it possible to count on success here?

01.09.2009
Other life sciences

Crisis prolongs life

During the financial crisis, the mortality rate in developed countries is falling: people have less money for alcohol, tobacco and delicious, but harmful food, they sit without work and enjoy communicating with family and friends, drive less and get into accidents.

01.09.2009
Innovative Russia

RVC CEO – about venture business

The peculiarities of the high-tech market, and, in particular, the use of venture business for financing, is that money is not really needed for it. Paradoxical as it sounds.

01.09.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

The President is dissatisfied with the Russian pharmaceutical industry

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting of the commission on modernization and technological development of the Russian economy. The development of the pharmaceutical industry, medical equipment, medical and information technologies has been ordered to strengthen and deepen.

01.09.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Pharma 2020: problems and prospects

The authors of the Pharma 2020 strategy state that its main goal is to create conditions for the "transition to an innovative development model" of the Russian pharmaceutical industry, but at the same time they schematically designate both mechanisms and tools that ensure such a transition.

01.09.2009
Genetic engineering

Genetically modified bacteria instead of a syringe with insulin

The beneficial bacteria modified by scientists secrete a protein that stimulates the synthesis of insulin in intestinal cells. Perhaps in the near future, "live yogurt" with such bacteria will become an alternative means for the treatment of diabetes.

01.09.2009
Bioethics

Bioethics: fantasies on the topic

In 1971, in the book "Bioethics: a Bridge to the Future", American oncologist Van Rensselaer Potter wrote: "The science of survival should be not just a science, but a new wisdom that would combine the two most important and extremely necessary elements — biological knowledge and universal values. Based on this, I propose a term for its designation — bioethics..."

01.09.2009
Biomedicine

Fibroblasts will cure periodontal disease

With periodontal disease and periodontitis, gum tissue can break down and expose the roots of teeth. This process, called recession, is fraught with hypersensitivity of teeth to temperature and root caries, not to mention a purely cosmetic defect. Impressive results were shown by the method of non–surgical treatment of recession - the introduction of autologous (own) fibroblasts into the gum tissue.

31.08.2009
Genetics

Russian Russian gene Pool on the Russian Plain

Russian Russian Gene Pool on the Russian Plain and an article published in The American Journal of Human Genetics were the results of the research. These works showed the huge genetic diversity of the Russian people on the Y-chromosome.

31.08.2009
Cellular technologies

The patch for the heart grew in the omentum

Transplantologists managed to make a unique patch for the heart, in which, in addition to the heart tissue, there are also vessels. In order for them to grow, the blank for the patch was kept in the omentum in the abdominal region for a week.

31.08.2009
Exhibitions and conferences

Nanotechnology for human and health

The 6th Forum "Nanotechnology for Human and Health" (Hesse, Germany) invites specialists in the field of chemical industry, pharmacology, biotechnology, medicine, dentistry. Participation in the Nanoforum is free of charge.

31.08.2009
Note to the businessman

Develop innovative medicines or promote existing ones?

With the onset of the economic downturn, the solution of this problem has become even more important for pharmaceutical companies, since it calls into question not only their financial success, but also their very physical existence.

31.08.2009
Grants and competitions

Emergency support for scientific research

Applications for emergency organization of expeditions and field research, Russian and international scientific events in Russia and publishing projects are accepted for consideration.

31.08.2009