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IX Moscow International Salon of Innovations and Investments

From August 26 to 29, 2009, the IX Moscow International Salon of Innovations and Investments will be held in Moscow, at the All-Russian Exhibition Center.

Do you like beer? You will become an effeminate impotent!

The Party of beer lovers categorically refutes false information about the harm of beer that has appeared in the media and demands that the perpetrators publish a refutation and place free beer advertising, as well as a box of the specified drink in compensation for moral damage.

Nanomedicine-2025

In solving social problems, experts gave preference to nanocontainer technologies for vector drug delivery, technologies for creating biocompatible materials based on micro- and nanostructures, and technologies for creating magnetic nanocarriers for medical purposes.

Development of innovative technologies for obtaining nanoscale structures of organic substances

All-Russian scientific and innovative competition "Development of innovative technologies for obtaining nanoscale structures of organic substances" within the framework of the program "U.M.N.I.K.".

Applications for subsidies for innovative companies are accepted in St. Petersburg

Applications will be accepted on August 20. The companies that have submitted applications must comply with the methodology for classifying organizations as an innovative type, have no debts to budgets of all levels and make one of the types of expenses for which subsidies are provided in 2009.

Drink foam supplements – there will be tabebuya avelanednaya!

Lokakhi is a drink rich in medicinal herbs and juices, giving you perfect liquid nutrition! Locahi gives you the best of Mother Nature's medicines! Tabebuya, romale! Avelanede, chavale! Lambada, companeros!

Research institutes and universities were allowed to earn without the consent of the state

Yesterday, the Duma presented a draft Federal law "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation on the creation of economic societies by budgetary institutions of science and Education for the practical application (implementation) of the results of intellectual activity."

The egg was first grown in a test tube

Doctors from the USA were able to grow a mature egg in the laboratory from ovarian tissues taken from a donor. The work may lead to a breakthrough in the field of reproductive technologies and infertility treatment.

An immunosuppressant will not help to live up to a hundred years :(

Unfortunately, the creation of effective "medicines for old age" is still far away. Rapamycin has many side effects and therefore cannot be used to prolong people's lives. In particular, it has an immunosuppressive effect (weakens the immune defense of the body).

Autologous stem cells: experimental and clinical studies

The program of the conference and school for young scientists includes stem cell biology, clinical application of autologous stem cells, methods of research and preparation of cellular material, cell technologies, gene therapy and other topics.

Scholarships of the European Molecular Biology Organization

The Foundation for New Technologies of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) offers long-term and short-term scholarship programs for biologists.

Key indicators of Russian science in 2005-2007

Collection "Indicators of Science: 2009". The collection gives a very detailed picture of the state of Russian research and Development in recent years.

The inevitable nano-future

Future scenarios are determined primarily by the choice of priorities for technological development. The development of modern information and environmental technologies is the "inevitable future" of all scenarios of global development. At the same time, the rapid development of biotechnologies or nanotechnologies generates special scenario branches: the alternative scenario "Biotechnological Revolution" and the breakthrough scenario "Quantum Reality".

From Siberia with a vaccine

Vector-BiAlgam offers Russia's first combined vaccine against hepatitis A and B, plans to create a bottling site for injectable drugs and hopes to organize the production of immunoglobulins from donated blood.

Competition of Russian-Japanese research projects

RFBR and the Japanese Society for the Advancement of Science announce the 2010 contest of joint Russian-Japanese research projects.

Cellular technologies: treatment, recovery, rejuvenation

Both systemic and local administration of autologous adult stem cells and umbilical cord blood cells gives a proven multiple positive effect in the treatment of various diseases and in cosmetology practice.

General regenerating effect of stem cell transplantation: application

Human Frontier Science Program Scholarships for PhD candidates

The Human Frontier Science Program offers scientists with a PhD degree two scholarship programs for advanced training in the framework of fundamental transnational and interdisciplinary research in the field of life sciences.

A matter of life and death

The Science for Life Extension Foundation has asked renowned scientists working in various fields of biology to answer questions related to aging.

"DNA Technology" is gaining momentum

Now DNA Technology has entered into cooperation with many Russian medical centers that work in the field of diagnostics, with blood transfusion stations, with cancer centers.