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Bioethics

Immoral science: Bioethics from the point of view of ordinary people

Reproductive biology and medicine — cloning, "designer babies", stem cell research, human-animal hybrids, and so on - are particularly fiercely controversial. Other "unpleasant" topics include nanotechnology, synthetic biology, genomics and genetically modified organisms.

14.01.2009
Your health

Where to go for treatment?

If serious medical care is needed, we prefer to look for a "good hospital" or a "knowledgeable doctor". But where and how to find them?

14.01.2009
Your health

Insomnia? Psychotherapy is better than pills!

Non-pharmacological treatment of chronic insomnia gives a long-term stable effect comparable to the effect of drug treatment, but its stability is much higher.

13.01.2009
Note to the businessman

Health insurance during the crisis

In a period of austerity, the issue of health insurance for employees of the enterprise requires the closest attention.

13.01.2009
Your health

About metabolism in general and weight loss in particular

The scientific term "metabolism" is becoming increasingly popular among non-specialists. Increasingly, popular articles – advertising and not only – write about the acceleration, increase and improvement of metabolism, about the effective elimination of metabolic toxins. Well, after the protracted holidays, many are occupied with only one question, "metabolic": how to lose weight?

12.01.2009
Your health

How to cure medicine?

The Ministry of Health proposes to "cure healthcare" by reforming funding, standardizing medical services and improving the quality of medical education. Doctors are skeptical: the main thing is the development of competition between medical institutions.

12.01.2009
Biomedicine

Obesity Switch

A new enzyme has been discovered in fat cells, which is a key regulator of fat metabolism and body weight. This opens up promising ways to find remedies for the treatment of obesity.

12.01.2009
Nanotechnology

Investments in nanotechnology: in your own or imported?

Tatiana Nikolenko, Director of Infrastructure Programs at RUSNANO, and Andrey Ivashchenko, director of the HimRar center, believe that it is more profitable to buy innovations in the West – there they are brought to the stage of business projects. And the chief scientific coordinator of the ISTC, Tatiana Gremyakova, is sure that RUSNANO's investments are in dire need of Russian applied science, which will finally wither if all the money goes to the West.

12.01.2009
Innovative Russia

Strategic Pharmacology

The strategic policy of the state should be aimed at creating a high-tech industrial complex that meets international standards. It is necessary, first of all, to direct efforts to restore the production of pharmaceutical substances, the development of new technologies that ensure the production of competitive drugs and medical products that can replace imported products.

12.01.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Development strategy – a course for innovation

The scenario of innovative development of the medical and pharmaceutical industry presupposes the concentration of resources in the main sectors of the country's economy, on priority innovation and investment projects, a limited number of key industrial technologies for which Russia already occupies a leading position or has real prospects of achieving them.

12.01.2009
Your health

My dear cellulite

Actually, "cellulite" in translation from "medical" to "universal" means "inflammation of the cell", and not "orange peel". That's about the myths and legends of the mysterious "orange disease" and I want to tell you today.

11.01.2009
Healthy skepticism

Crisis in Russian

The Americans offer – "Come to us, we will teach you how to manage the economy, how to make maximum profit from income." They do not understand that a stupid thing is not tricky, here in Russia, first you need to learn how to make a profit from losses. To learn artillery business – so that after the volley the rollback was normal. And every fool will be able to make a profit from income.

11.01.2009
Cellular technologies

Stem cells restored heroin-damaged brain

Israeli scientists were able to restore the brain damaged by heroin use. The introduction of nerve stem cells into the hippocampus restored the structure and function of the organ to mice born to drug-addicted mothers. At the same time, the main work was done by "local" cells, which for some reason were prompted by transplantation to divide more actively.

30.12.2008
Nanotechnology

About the forum and the "scientific form" of Russian nanotechnologists

We have already lost the information revolution, in the sense of "hardware". The next one, the nanobiotechnological one, is happening right before our eyes. Whoever wins it will dictate their terms in the XXI century. Now in the West, a huge number of university groups, laboratories, and companies are working in the field of nanotechnology. And Russia, by and large, is just beginning to move in this direction.

30.12.2008
New in Gerontology

Blood vessels and Alzheimer's disease

A new model of Alzheimer's disease puts its origin in direct connection with the sclerosis of blood vessels feeding the brain. When the lumen of these arteries is closed by fatty deposits, the brain begins to receive less blood and, consequently, less glucose. It turns out that arteriosclerosis is not only responsible for vascular dementia, but also provokes Alzheimer's disease.

29.12.2008
Your health

Stress and "burnout": effective methods of struggle

Stress is a natural and unavoidable feature of the life of any living organism, contributing to its survival. However, with the development of society, stress increasingly began to acquire a social connotation and became associated with concepts such as self-satisfaction, success in society and the need to meet the expectations of other people.

29.12.2008
Healthy skepticism

Doctors of non-traditional orientation

Although the professional activity of a doctor of non-traditional orientation may be permeated by a variety of perverted fantasies, medical perversion does not always prevent the establishment of relationships with relevant patients.

26.12.2008
Other life sciences

Silver's Glasses – "do it yourself"

The innovation was called adaptive glasses, or informally – Silver glasses. They are surprisingly easy to arrange. Transparent flexible pouches filled with silicone liquid are placed between two transparent polymer membranes fixed in the frame.

26.12.2008