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Biomedicine

Metabolomics against cancer

The term "metabolomics" is not yet as well known as genomics, the study of genes, or proteomics, the study of intracellular proteins. The study of prostate metabolites allowed us to find a marker with which it may be possible to detect prostate cancer by urine analysis.

13.02.2009
Note to the businessman

Nanotechnology is coming

Nanoindustry companies will enter the market in 6-10 years.

13.02.2009
Your health

Pacifiers instead of medicines

The positivity of the crisis may consist in the fact that it will force officials to build a more effective scheme for providing medicines, – said the president of the Society of Evidence-based Medicine Specialists K.Danishevsky, – and give an impetus to sweep out the garbage in beautiful packages from the pharmacological market.

13.02.2009
Healthy skepticism

I'm the boss – you're a fool!

Not being competent and just pretending to be so, a person may well become a boss. To confirm this obvious thing, psychologists have set up another experiment.

13.02.2009
Genetics

Neanderthal genome: details

According to Peebo, the question of the transfer of genes by a modern type of man to a Neanderthal is still open. In the opposite direction – from a Neanderthal to a human – there was no gene transfer. The scientist stated that there are practically no Neanderthal genes in humans and, although he cannot give an accurate assessment yet, the share of Neanderthal heritage in the human genome, "if there is, is negligible."

13.02.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Innovative remedies for wounds

The creation of innovative medicines was discussed at the meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

12.02.2009
Innovative Russia

How can we reform applied science

One of the options for updating the state management of the applied (industry) research and development sector is to increase the role of state research centers, some of which may become the largest industry research and production complexes by analogy with the parent organizations of the USSR.

12.02.2009
Prolonging youth

Hormones of youth

If you resort to age-related hormone therapy, then with great caution. You will need one hormone or several in a fight with time, depending on your state of health and the goal you want to achieve. Throughout the treatment, the hormone level should be regularly rechecked, and the dose should be adjusted.

12.02.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

ARFP requires state support

The Association of Russian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (ARFP) believes that it is strategically important to support full-cycle enterprises producing active substances and take the necessary measures to restore lost production facilities.

12.02.2009
Note to the businessman

Where would you buy money?

Foreign direct investment is the most attractive form of capital inflow for the recipient country, as it is invested in real production assets and is associated with many positive effects for the recipient.

12.02.2009
Note to the businessman

Crisis: stripping of personnel

The main positive consequence of the crisis will be the rehabilitation of the personnel market – professionals will take the place of "office plankton".

12.02.2009
Healthy skepticism

Transgenic future: goats instead of women

... chairman of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov is one of the first who became interested in transgenic goats ... goat, however, was not at that time. Mironov was offered to fill his hand on the mouse first...

11.02.2009
Biomedicine

Will the neurotrophic factor cure Alzheimer's disease?

Scientists from San Diego worked with several models of Alzheimer's disease, which was reproduced in mice, rats and monkeys. The experimenters either injected the neurotrophic factor itself into the affected tissues, or infected them with a harmless genetically engineered virus carrying an embedded gene for this protein. In all cases, the sick animals showed a significant improvement in the ability to memorize and learn.

11.02.2009
Healthy skepticism

In Bolivia, urine therapy killed a woman

In Bolivia, a woman died after a course of urine therapy. A friend gave her a urine injection. The "benefactor" turned out to be a well-known fashion designer in the country. In Russia, Gennady Malakhov is considered to be the main propagandist of urine therapy.

11.02.2009
Healthy skepticism

Identical DNA is the best excuse!

In the last few days, another sentimental, in the manner of an Indian movie and a thug romance, news has been circulating on the Runet that due to DNA analysis, the drug dealer could not be executed (and had to be pardoned :)

10.02.2009
Your health

Sleep and insomnia

In many ways, the development of insomnia is influenced by the age factor: complaints about poor sleep in people over 60 are 3-4 times more common than in middle-aged people. There is no universal sleeping pill that would help all people, just as there is no single cause of sleep disorders.

10.02.2009
Theories of aging

In search of the elixir of youth

At the end of January, conferences dedicated to the memory of V.V. Frolkis, an outstanding physiologist and gerontologist who devoted his life to the study of the fundamental mechanisms of aging, were held in Kiev.

09.02.2009
Biomedicine

Bio-nano-putty can save your arm or leg

It is assumed that the putty will include a material known as nanoporous silicon, which was developed in the laboratory of Dr. Ferrari. This material should provide the putty with the strength necessary to support the patient's weight during the period of regeneration of new bone tissue.

09.02.2009