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Note to the businessman
Innovations and taxes: recent changes in Russian legislation
The changes made to the tax legislation are aimed at creating a favorable tax climate for companies that are willing to invest in the development of modern high-tech products and industries, as well as introduce modern technologies created abroad on the Russian market.
03.02.2009
Biomedicine
Neurogenomics: on the way to the perfect antidepressant
Nina Popova, head of the Behavioral Neurogenomics Laboratory at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, told about the project, which in the future may make it possible to create trouble-free antidepressants.
03.02.2009
Theories of aging
Has another aging factor been discovered?
Based on the results of the studies already conducted, we received a diploma for the discovery of "The phenomenon of accumulation of aging factor in mammalian organisms". Now the main task is to determine what exactly this factor is. Then we can identify the gene that is responsible for its synthesis, and look for methods either to inhibit this synthesis, or to reduce the biological activity of the aging factor in the body.
03.02.2009
Grants and competitions
Scientific Community in Russian
The Scientific Social Community Scientific Social network was created to search for funding, grants and work opportunities abroad, as well as to find colleagues in the field of scientific interests. It offers tools and services that are of interest to all participants in the scientific process – students, postgraduates, young scientists, and honored masters of science.
02.02.2009
Other life sciences
Prototype of a live brain-computer interface
In the future, the interface between the brain and an artificial system may be built on nerve cells specially grown for this purpose. A group of Israeli scientists took the first step in this direction by artificially creating circuits and logic gates from live nerves grown in the laboratory.
02.02.2009
Innovative Russia
Innovative developments are unprofitable for scientists
If we analyze the legal casuistry of the fourth part of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, which establishes the right of scientists-developers to receive remuneration for alienating the rights to the results of their work to the employer, the conclusions are very disappointing. The employee's right to copyright payments prescribed in two articles of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation does not really mean anything.
30.01.2009
Biomedicine
Cancer vaccine: created in the USA, works in Russia
Many Americans are already ready to come to Russia to undergo an officially authorized course of kidney cancer treatment using the personalized Antigenix vaccine.
29.01.2009
Cellular technologies
Cell therapy – medicine of the future
Cell therapy is a young field for our medicine. Although our scientists have been engaged in the development of this promising area for fifteen years. Among those who stood at the origins of cellular technologies in Russia is Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Director of the Scientific Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology Gennady Sukhoi.
29.01.2009
Biomedicine
Cancer Immunotherapy: Training dendritic cells
Dendritic cells by themselves do not destroy cancerous growths. They recognize specific proteins-antigens located on the surface of cancer cells, and then activate killer lymphocytes that directly attack the tumor. However, under normal conditions they do not do it very effectively. The task of immunotherapy is to make dendritic cells react strongly and precisely to the form of cancer that the patient suffers from.
29.01.2009
Healthy skepticism
Scientists have proved it... Be careful – they could have been joking!
A well-known British expert on Alzheimer's disease and aging issues, Elaine Murphy, admitted that for the sake of a joke she invented "cellist scrotum syndrome", a report about which was published in the 1970s by the prestigious British Medical Journal.
29.01.2009
Exhibitions and conferences
Circulation and production of biopharmaceutical products in Russia
Conference "Circulation and production of Biopharmaceutical products in Russia: Organizational and legal problems of regulation and control" will be held on February 19-20, 2009 at the Russian Academy of Public Administration.
29.01.2009
Grants and competitions
The grant is classified as "secret"
In such a situation, you can make any assumptions. For example, that people who were members of the scientific council simply divided the money. By the way, the winners of the Biodiversity program have been announced for the first time. And there you can find the names of the same academicians who are listed on the scientific council and distribute grants. Some even have not one, but several supported projects.
29.01.2009
Healthy skepticism
Work for free
Of course, not all network marketing schemes, which are increasingly being offered to Russians who are confused in the conditions of the crisis, are "pirated". The vast majority are quite legitimate and traditional: the sale of any goods in the format of the work of peddlers. However, the sale of goods in network marketing is not a goal, but a means. A means to earn money without doing anything at all.
29.01.2009
Biomedicine
In vitro fertilization and the age of the parents
The effectiveness of infertility treatment by in vitro fertilization in parents younger than 35 years is 2 times higher than at the age of 40 years and older.
28.01.2009
Controversial
About the benefits of dirt and worms
Once in the body, microbes, viruses and worms "stimulate the development of a healthy immune system." Moreover, according to some studies that have not yet been completed, worms even help to correct some malfunctions in the immune system, leading to asthma, allergies and autoimmune diseases.
28.01.2009
Healthy skepticism
Does the sex of the child depend on the morning porridge?
In April of last year, the article "You are what your mother eats" made a noise. American statisticians declared this news nonsense, referring to the fact that the British received a false relationship.
28.01.2009
Innovative Russia
Devaluation of innovation
Neither practitioners nor theorists in the field of science and innovation can say what measures during the financial crisis will help breathe life into the barely nascent sprouts of domestic innovations. Investors, as well as enterprises that have recently planned to launch new products, are taking a wait-and-see attitude, freezing all innovative projects
28.01.2009
Biotechnologies - into life
Cellular technologies are ready for implementation, but...
Scientists of the St. Petersburg Institute of Cytology have developed cellular products that can be used in the treatment of patients with severe and extensive burns. Pinaev's laboratory is working on technologies for the restoration of bone tissue, cartilage and heart muscle. But the introduction of cellular technologies rested on the lack of money.
28.01.2009
Theories of aging
Another aging mechanism: nuclear pores
Reactive oxygen species, which have long been the main enemy of gerontologists, are able to accelerate the wear of nuclear pores, and with it the aging of the entire cell. It remains to be hoped that a system compensating for these "leaks" still exists, and if it can be detected, it will become a new round in the study of active longevity.
28.01.2009