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Grants and competitions

Are you looking for a grant or funds for the implementation of the project? We will help!

For example, if you are interested in the question "How to get a grant to study at a foreign university?", you open the section "Conversation with an expert" and find the necessary information in it.

28.08.2009

Bioethics

Blackened transplantologists

In Ukraine, another scandal is being fanned about "black transplantologists" and allegedly illegally dismembered corpses. The living suffer from this.

27.08.2009

Genetic engineering

Gene therapy of mitochondrial hereditary diseases: it has already worked on macaques!

It is hoped that in humans, too, it will be possible to interrupt the inheritance of defective mitochondrial DNA and hereditary diseases transmitted through the maternal line by transferring the nucleus into an egg obtained from a healthy donor.

27.08.2009

Innovative Russia

Venture investments in Russia: personal experience

Konstantin Fokin (despite and even despite) continues to engage in venture investments in high-tech companies.

27.08.2009

Grants and competitions

Carl Zeiss grants to support the research work of young scientists

Projects of scientific research using methods of light or electron microscopy in various directions are allowed to participate in the competition. A prerequisite is the use of Carl Zeiss equipment.

27.08.2009

Healthy skepticism

The future of science: the sweetness of dreams

Perhaps the predictions of modern scientists are not as fantastic as what their colleagues imagined 80 years ago. Or maybe they will cause our descendants to smile as condescendingly as the utopias of the 20s - with us.

27.08.2009

Note to the businessman

I'll buy a bankrupt pharmaceutical company. Bargaining is appropriate

Controlled by the senator from Tuva and the owner of the United Industrial Corporation Sergey Pugachev, OPK Biotech LLC acquired the American pharmaceutical company Biopure Corporation. The transaction amount is $4.9 million.

26.08.2009

Cellular technologies

Skin cells replaced patients in clinical trials

Induced pluripotent stem cells can be used to study hereditary diseases and develop means of their treatment.

26.08.2009

Genetics

DNA in criminology: forensic experts were taken by the throat

One of the researchers who published in the public domain a simple and reliable method of falsifying DNA samples, which can undermine modern methods of criminology, himself founded a company that developed a test to distinguish fake DNA from real ones.

26.08.2009

Note to the businessman

Crisis and pharmaceutical production: slowing down underperformance

The first steps to stabilize the pharmaceutical market have already been taken: as a result of the efforts of pharmaceutical manufacturers, despite the crisis difficulties, the rate of decline in pharmaceutical production volumes observed since September 2008 has slowed down.

26.08.2009

Biomedicine

Estrogen and breast cancer: from theory to practice

New data on the interaction of breast tumor cells with estrogen may lead to the development of new drugs for the treatment of breast cancer.

26.08.2009

Other life sciences

Multiple sclerosis in 10 years, it may be possible to cure

This statement was made by scientists from the University of Bristol – they managed to establish that the galanin protein prevents the development of multiple sclerosis.

25.08.2009

Note to the businessman

Personalized medicine is the engine of progress

According to PricewaterhouseCoopers experts, a number of factors will contribute to the development of personalized medicine and increase the value of innovative diagnostic methods.

25.08.2009

Note to the businessman

Stem cells go to IPO: first-hand details

The projects of the Institute of Human Stem Cells are characterized by a quick return on investment, which will be visible in 1-2 years.

25.08.2009

Healthy skepticism

Too healthy lifestyle

Obsession with diet leads to metabolic disorders associated with a lack of nutritional and biologically active compounds. The reason for the mass craze for healthy eating is the excess of information in the media about the harm or benefits of certain products.

25.08.2009

Bioethics

Is genetic engineering and eugenics our happy future?

Almost all societies at one time engaged in what we call "eugenics" or "genetic engineering". Why, in the name of what, control human genetics? This is a problem that will be acutely facing us in fifty years.

25.08.2009

Biomedicine

Biotechnologies and medicine: waiting for miracles and real benefits

The most frequent reproaches from ordinary people relate to medical applications of biotechnologies. The reproaches can be understood, because it is medicine that is the main application of the results of the activities of biotechnologists.

24.08.2009

Innovative Russia

Small entrepreneurs! Keep your pocket wider!

This was stated by the head of the Department of Support and Development of Small and Medium-sized Businesses in Moscow, Mikhail Vyshegorodtsev, during a meeting with entrepreneurs, which took place at the Central House of Entrepreneurs.

24.08.2009

Controversial

Antioxidants: for cancer or for cancer?

American scientists have found out that antioxidants can promote the spread of tumor cells. Previously, it was believed that these substances reduce the risk of ordinary cells turning into cancer cells.

24.08.2009

Exhibitions and conferences

Donor and personal storage of stem cells

The International Symposium "Topical issues of donor and personal storage of stem cells" will be held on September 21, 2009 in Moscow, at the Renaissance Hotel.

06.08.2009