Articles

Found results: 16306

Note to the businessman

Labor market: fell – wrung out

The crisis is a reason to evaluate the effectiveness of employees and get rid of the "fat". How to evaluate everyone on their merits and not dismiss the most valuable personnel?

21.01.2009
Note to the businessman

Results of 2008 for Russian online media

Despite the downsizing of Russian online media caused by the crisis, analysts note that the current situation will help online publications to take a leading position in the media market.

21.01.2009
Innovative Russia

Innovations in Russia: we are waiting for you!

Russian innovative companies are trying to jump over several institutional barriers in their development. At an early stage, they need free access to capital, and later – help in developing markets. But real success stories will appear only after the socio-cultural environment changes

21.01.2009
Exhibitions and conferences

IV International Conference "Pharmaceutical Business in Russia"

The conference will be particularly interesting and useful for top managers of Russian and international pharmaceutical manufacturers, heads of pharmacy chains and distribution companies, representatives of legislative and executive branches of government regulating the development of the industry at the federal and regional levels.

20.01.2009
Innovative Russia

Russian venture company in the vastness of Russia

"At the height of the crisis, we formed four funds," Alexey Korobov, CEO of a Russian venture capital company. The cost of projects in the venture industry has fallen two or three times, and you can enter them at a huge discount, especially since banks do not give loans to developers for their development.

20.01.2009
Your health

The surest way to treat obesity

The most common are metabolic-alimentary and endocrine obesity. This division is very conditional, because both forms of pathology are closely intertwined. Thus, alimentary-metabolic obesity very rarely occurs in the absence of any endocrine disorders, and endocrine obesity, in turn, is impossible without overeating and inactivity.

20.01.2009
Nanotechnology

Remote Gene Switch

When irradiated with near-infrared light, the gold nanoparticle heats up, the complementary bonds between the oligonucleotides of the double-stranded DNA segments attached to it are destroyed, and the released single-stranded nucleic acid molecules can participate in the degradation of mRNA and block the synthesis of the corresponding protein.

19.01.2009
Exhibitions and conferences

International Forum "The Older Generation"

The forum (Lenexpo, March 19-22, 2009) will host an exhibition of social, medical care, goods and services for the elderly "Care, Help, Mercy-2009", a conference "Social adaptation, support and health of the elderly in modern society", as well as seminars and round tables on social and medical care for the elderly.

19.01.2009
Exhibitions and conferences

International Medical Forum'2009

From April 5 to April 8, 2009, Sokolniki Medical Center will host an International Medical Forum combining three specialized exhibitions: REHAMED, REHATech and MEDproject. The Forum is the main event in the field of medicine and social rehabilitation of people with disabilities.

19.01.2009
Controversial

Has privatization killed 3 million Russians?

British and American scientists discovered America: the reason for the increase in mortality among the male population of the CIS and Russia in the 1990s was the change of economic formations! Russian scientists object – patriotically, but unconvincingly.

19.01.2009
Note to the businessman

Bigfarma-2009: fortune-telling on coffee grounds

Today, only the most risky experts, or those who are trying to make a name for themselves by taking advantage of the crisis situation, undertake to make long-term forecasts. In the field of big pharma development forecasts, scenarios are assumed that, like day and night, are opposed to each other.

19.01.2009
Your health

Counterfeit medicines: the problem can be solved

The presence of falsified medicines (FLS) in the pharmaceutical market of Russia today is recognized by everyone: politicians from high tribunes and pensioners in queues for free medicine talk about it. What is the amount of counterfeit circulating in the domestic pharmaceutical market, and is there a real possibility of its reduction?

19.01.2009
Nanotechnology

Nanoparticles – for "bad" cholesterol!

Researchers have managed to create artificial high-density lipoproteins (HDL) based on nanoparticles, which can become a promising means of combating atherosclerosis.

16.01.2009
Healthy skepticism

Evgeny Ginter: "The genetic passport is a profanity"

Genetic passports in the form in which they exist today are absolutely not needed. And we don't do that in our center. Now only private commercial structures are doing this all over the world. And to be completely honest, I think there is not a single competent, qualified geneticist in any such structure, and if there is, then he is engaged in profanity.

16.01.2009
Exhibitions and conferences

Business – for a healthy lifestyle

I All-Russian Congress "Healthy lifestyle as a condition for sustainable development of the state and a source of business competitiveness" (Moscow, January 29-30, 2009).

16.01.2009
Grants and competitions

Competition of young scientists from Alltech

The competition was established by Alltech to support young scientists and search for talented specialists. Participation in the program gives the contestants an opportunity to get acquainted with the work of one of the world's leading companies in the feed industry.

16.01.2009
Other life sciences

Micrographers for non-invasive surgery

The six-beam star of the micro-tool can be wound up through the blood vessels in the most inaccessible areas of the body. When the temperature rises to 40 degrees, the plastic softens, allowing the metal paws to shrink and capture a microscopic area of tissue.

15.01.2009
Grants and competitions

Microsoft for Doctors

The Russian representative office of Microsoft has announced the launch of a competition for the best software solutions for medical institutions – Microsoft4Doctors.

15.01.2009
Prolonging youth

Medicines for prolonging life

At the very end of the outgoing year, American scientists presented humanity with a luxurious New Year's gift — the hope for a quick solution to the problem of aging.

14.01.2009