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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
Your health

Liver in a hundred-gram way: 10 myths about cirrhosis

The essence of cirrhosis is the destruction of liver tissue due to necrosis and fibrosis of hepatocytes (that is, the death of liver cells and their replacement with collagen fibers). As a result, the liver ceases to be a blood purification factory and becomes a useless accumulation of connective tissue.

06.11.2008
Exhibitions and conferences

Pharma Russia. Business in an era of change

At the second annual forum “Pharma Russia. Business in the Era of Change" (11.12.2008, Moscow, Marriott Grand Hotel) will discuss the main problems and prospects for the development of the industry in modern conditions, state policy towards this market, ways to protect the market from monopolization and its investment potential in the financial crisis.

06.11.2008
Bioethics

Personal Genome Project: The End of Privacy

The participants of the Personal Genome Project were not afraid to disclose the most personal information about themselves. They did this quite deliberately, making a choice between preserving privacy, privacy and supporting science and, possibly, their health.

05.11.2008
Biomedicine

Autoantibodies will help predict brain diseases

With the help of molecular blood testing, stroke can be predicted and prevented. Scientists used for this purpose the "scavengers" of the human body – autoantibodies that help get rid of proteins that have worked out their own.

05.11.2008
Innovative Russia

Belarusian nanotechnologies of Chinese assembly

Only a quarter of the projects presented at the National Congress of Business Angels of Russia offered the release and promotion of real products and technologies to the market. There was only one business proposal connected with the production of a product that has no analogues on the Russian market.

01.11.2008
Biomedicine

Express diagnosis of acute coronary events

Rapid diagnosis of cardiomarkers in myocardial infarction and other acute coronary events improves diagnosis, increases the effectiveness of therapy and reduces the number of complications, hospitalization time and treatment costs.

01.11.2008
Biotechnologies - into life

Crisis and pharmaceutical industry

Large pharmaceutical companies are already stopping financing the development and testing of new drugs, being wary of financial risks. According to analysts, individual new developments that were planned by domestic companies will also be frozen.

31.10.2008
Innovative Russia

RVC invests in high technology

Investments will be made in companies with an annual revenue of up to 25 million rubles and an age of at least three years. In addition, the model of "seed financing" (project financing at the earliest stage) will be tested for the first time. It is proposed to allocate 2 billion rubles for this.

31.10.2008
Prolonging youth

A long life is hidden in gene tumblers

"Elderly" nematodes Caenorhabditis elegans, in which researchers neutralized the expression of ELT-5 and ELT-6 factors, lived one and a half times longer than their ordinary counterparts.

30.10.2008
Other life sciences

Placebo: the most important pill

This medicine can help with colds, headaches, ulcers, alcoholism, depression and many other diseases. Its cost price is literally pennies. However, officially this drug cannot be bought in any pharmacy in the world ... We are talking about a placebo — a dummy that the human psyche perceives as a medicine.

30.10.2008