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Controversial

In search of the secrets of longevity

Cautious scientists note that none of the studies of the aging process has yet achieved a breakthrough in this area. They draw attention to the need to distinguish the pseudoscientific production of anti-aging products from the genuine science of aging and declare that it is not yet possible to stop, slow down or reverse the passage of time.

03.03.2009
Other life sciences

How to connect to the brain

How far can science go in developing brain-machine interfaces? Will we be able to inject any information directly into the brain, as if this organ were a giant flash disk?

02.03.2009
Grants and competitions

"Science is beautiful!" – 2009

The publication "Science and Technology of Russia – STRF.ru "together with the Park-Media company, with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science and the Federal Agency for Science and Innovation, they are holding a scientific photography contest "Science is Beautiful!".

02.03.2009
Biomedicine

Nanotechnology in medicine: successes and prospects

Recently, nanotechnology has been increasingly being introduced into many areas of human activity. This trend has not bypassed medicine. Today, macromolecules and artificially prepared particles are used for the diagnosis, treatment of various diseases and restoration of damaged tissues. The new direction was called nanomedicine. Russian scientists have achieved considerable success in this field.

02.03.2009
Other life sciences

Injustice, dirt and bitter food cause the same reaction

Maybe impurity and injustice are processed by the brain separately and just trigger the same reaction – the same one that automatically provokes a bitter taste. Or maybe the body has adapted the same evaluation system for processing moral stimuli as for hygienic stimuli.

02.03.2009
Prolonging youth

Immortality for nothing

"I believe that we will be able to defeat aging in the near future. There is a 50 percent chance that the person who will be the first to live to 150 years old is already living, and he is now 60 years old," di Gray said on Saturday at a meeting with journalists in Moscow.

02.03.2009
Other life sciences

The most famous medical experiments on yourself

History knows a lot of doctors who got sick while doing their duty. But there were also those who deliberately infected themselves or harmed themselves in order to test the hypothesis by experiment.

26.02.2009
Healthy skepticism

Phantoms of the wave genome

The bulletin "In Defense of Science" No. 4 again exposes the pseudo- and anti-scientific activities of a number of "scientists" that harm the development of science, the health of the population, weaning people from critical thinking and contributing to the spread of obscurantism. Two articles are devoted to the theory of the "wave genome".

26.02.2009
Cellular technologies

Stem cells: the present and the near future

Most likely, the breakthrough in advanced medicine associated with stem cells predicted in the next decade will be based not on embryonic, but on the so–called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs, from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) - ordinary differentiated mature cells reprogrammed into a state of pluripotence.

25.02.2009
Healthy skepticism

Unsent email

Dear President, please, I beg you very much: cancel the salaries of doctors altogether. And some individual nurses (my sister, for example), please make them pay extra for the right to go to work.

25.02.2009
Grants and competitions

Competition of German-Russian applied research projects

The competition is addressed to small and medium-sized innovative enterprises and research institutions conducting applied research. Priority areas are biotechnology, research in the field of healthcare, medical technology, nanotechnology.

25.02.2009
New in Gerontology

Peroxide in the beard

First gray, and then white hair is the result of the accumulation of hydrogen peroxide in the hair follicles. By old age, the amount of peroxide in each hair can be measured in milligrams, that is, it makes up a significant fraction of the hair mass.

24.02.2009
Genetics

A small mutation of one gene has huge consequences for the whole person

The replacement of just one nucleotide base in the regulatory part of the gene encoding the muscarinic receptor M2, sensitive to the mediator of the nervous system acetylcholine, affects the number of such receptors and, by changing the tone of the parasympathetic nervous system, affects intelligence, social status, health and life expectancy.

24.02.2009
Other life sciences

The place of biology in the hierarchy of sciences

Biology – the science of life and living objects – traditionally belongs to the complex of natural sciences and is usually considered along with the main ones – physics and chemistry. But even with the most superficial comparison, some features of biology attract attention, distinguishing it from a number of natural science disciplines.

24.02.2009
Note to the businessman

Anatoly Chubais' interview with Die Welt newspaper

DIE WELT: RUSNANO Corporation should raise Russia to the world top of nanotechnology. How much of your 130 billion start-up capital evaporated during the financial crisis? CHUBAIS: We were even able to increase our capital and now we have 136 billion rubles. We have correctly placed money in deposits in large private and state-owned banks in Russia…

24.02.2009