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Innovative Russia

Innovations: a view from Akademgorodok

President Dmitry Medvedev recently made public his unpleasant discovery: the huge public funds allocated in recent years for the purpose of establishing an innovative economy have been wasted. It is urgent to take "all the necessary management decisions both at the level of state corporations and at the level of small and medium-sized businesses." But what kind of solutions are needed?

13.11.2008
Other life sciences

A word about the genetics of behavior

It is clear that practically nothing is yet clear in the genetics of behavior. However, it is also clear that psychologists will soon have to arm themselves with modern tools for analyzing the genetic characteristics of the participants in their research, in addition to outdated Eysenck tests and other questionnaires.

13.11.2008
Note to the businessman

Can the crisis benefit the Russian pharmaceutical market?

According to experts' forecasts, the collapse risks are low for systemically important drug suppliers and leading domestic manufacturers. The financial crisis may stimulate the renewal of the pharmaceutical market, as in 1998.

13.11.2008
Grants and competitions

International Student Exchange Program Global UGRAD

The Global UGRAD International Student Exchange program provides an opportunity for students of 1-3 courses of full-time departments of universities to study for one academic year without obtaining a degree at a university and college in the USA.

13.11.2008
Other life sciences

Genes and behavior: humans are just like butterflies and birds

To solve the world's problems, we use old, proven genetic and neural circuits that have evolved over the course of evolution to regulate our relationships with fellow tribesmen in small collectives. And if so, then it's time for political scientists to join forces with specialists in behavior genetics, neuroscientists and evolutionary psychologists.

12.11.2008
Biomedicine

Telomeres and HIV infection

Telomerase genes also work in killer lymphocytes, which are also required to multiply rapidly in order to perform their tasks. However, the hunt for hidden immunodeficiency viruses turns out to be so long that these genes gradually stop turning on. Perhaps TAT2 or other, more powerful telomerase activators will solve the problem

12.11.2008
Healthy skepticism

Fecal therapy

The doctor-electrician Malakhov claims that he has tried all his recipes on himself. It must be assumed that the regulation of the menstrual cycle and the treatment of PMS, too. However, like any spectacle, the transfer of the "healer" has a very real task: to distract from the pressing problems of official medicine the most disadvantaged and most aggressive segment of consumers of public medical services: pensioners.

12.11.2008
Cellular technologies

Adenoviruses reprogram somatic cells into pluripotent ones

Adenovirus reprogramming of cells is much less effective than using retroviruses. But at the same time, no tumor formations appeared in any case, and the genomes of the resulting pluripotent cells do not have viral inserts.

12.11.2008
Other life sciences

Exoskeleton for hard workers and old people

The main goal of the creators of the Walking assist portable exoskeleton is to give the joy of movement to old people who are still able to walk, but already with difficulty. And the second purpose of cyberstans is to equip workers on the conveyor.

12.11.2008
Prolonging youth

Lifestyle Genetics

According to the latest research, our genes are not static. The human genome is an open system that reacts sensitively to the peculiarities of diet, lifestyle, as well as to external factors, such as the state of the environment.

12.11.2008
Your health

Pharmacies poison Russians with cheap ethyl alcohol

Men who consume surrogate alcohol have a 9 times higher chance of dying than moderate drinkers of the same age. The main problem associated with the use of such alcohol lies not only in the presence of toxic impurities, but also in the fact that the surrogates are very concentrated and cheap, and therefore affordable, ethanol.

11.11.2008
Prolonging youth

"Pills for old age" are getting closer to clinical research

SRT1720 activates the same receptors in cells as the repeatedly studied compound resveratrol, which, as experiments have shown, prolongs the life of obese mice (and not only them) and makes rodents more resilient.

11.11.2008
Grants and competitions

Coordinated EU-Russian competitions

Topics: "Comparative population-genetic study of widespread multifactorial diseases in EU/AC and Russian populations" and "Study of molecular and cellular mechanisms of heart diseases associated with diabetes and overweight".

11.11.2008
Biomedicine

Mutant killers take orders

A little blood is taken from the patient's vein, all T-killers are isolated from this blood, then a gene encoding a mutant receptor protein is inserted into their DNA in an active form, cells are multiplied in culture and injected back into the patient. According to some indicators, the winning mutant surpassed its progenitor by more than 100 times.

10.11.2008
Healthy skepticism

Peking Chicken

The Biotron-Jiang device transmits the electromagnetic field of one living object to another. Hence the kurotki, and kozlokroliki, and pshekuruza. Do you know what happens if the receiving party is an old man, and young wheat or corn is broadcast to him? No, he won't grow an ear, though...

10.11.2008
Nanotechnology

Blood nanofiltration: wait five years

RUSNANO approved a project to create a domestic high-tech production of medical equipment for cascade filtration of blood plasma and related technologies for the treatment of cardiovascular and other diseases by purifying blood from harmful substances and viruses.

10.11.2008
Biotechnologies - into life

Citramon producers are not up to innovation

To create a local system for the production of exclusively innovative drugs for Russia means to sacrifice the health of the population to ambitions and loud slogans.

07.11.2008
Genetics

The color genome is cheap and fast

The complete genomes of two more people have been deciphered: a Nigerian and a Chinese. A detailed analysis of the first "color" genomes is still ahead, but the speed and cheapness of decoding already promise the imminent advent of the era of personal genomics. What this era will look like is unclear.

07.11.2008