Russian fundamental science is trying to help medicine
Scientists of the Academy of Sciences are developing new medicines, diagnostic methods and medical devices in spite of, and not thanks to funding.
11.07.2008Scientists of the Academy of Sciences are developing new medicines, diagnostic methods and medical devices in spite of, and not thanks to funding.
11.07.2008In 2005, the Department of Neurodynamics and Neurobiology was opened at Nizhny Novgorod State University. When the university received a large grant within the framework of the national project “Education”, an amount equivalent to one million euros was allocated to our department. With this money, we are forming an educational neuroscience laboratory, which will be equipped with modern equipment, which currently has no analogues in Russia.
11.07.2008The main talent of the French is the transformation of bacteria into bucks! They used the most advanced scientific developments to identify microorganisms that contribute to improving a person's well-being and even the freshness of his appearance.
11.07.2008The biotechnology industry of one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies – Switzerland – is based on small innovative companies.
11.07.2008The effectiveness of leasing becomes obvious if the process of obtaining a certain resource is decomposed into components.
11.07.2008Aubrey de Grey claims that the average life expectancy of people in developed countries will soon grow to a thousand or more years, and by 2100 to 5000.
11.07.2008The problem of genetic control of life expectancy and the aging process has many facets, one of them was highlighted in the study of hereditary diseases included in the group of laminopathies.
11.07.2008The study of genetic markers of aging and age-related diseases is one of the most relevant areas in gerontology.
11.07.2008Numerous facts indicate a decrease in the effectiveness of the functioning of the immune system with increasing age, as a result of which the incidence and mortality from infectious diseases increases tens and hundreds of times. The weakening and violation of the immune response is associated with an increase in the frequency of oncological and autoimmune diseases.
11.07.2008To understand the revolutionary nature of the new technology, it is enough to give a simple example: to measure the concentration of an antibiotic in the blood by traditional methods, it will take two days, and the use of abnormal optical activity of DNA scraps turned into a liquid crystal will reduce this time to ten minutes.
11.07.2008The mechanisms of aging are quite complex and diverse. Today there are several alternative theories that partly contradict each other, and partly complement each other.
11.07.2008There are several dozen theories of aging. Many of them are already only of historical interest, while the rest, reflecting a number of essential aspects of the process, can be put into a logical scheme of a more universal general mechanism of aging. One thing is common to all hypotheses – the aging of the body begins immediately after the division of the fertilized egg begins.
11.07.2008A curious research project is under consideration at the Eternal Youth Foundation. The data obtained by the author as a result of previous studies supported by the RFBR grant allow us to count on the development of ways to treat mitochondrial encephalomyopathies and slow down and even prevent the aging processes of cells induced by damage to their active oxygen forms by activating the growth of protomitochondria, as well as the elimination of old mitochondrial organelles – postmitochondria.
11.07.2008Natural habitat conditions sometimes demonstrate almost unique capabilities of animals to neutralize toxins or infections.
11.07.2008Fortune magazine included GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies intensively engaged in the development and production of biotechnological drugs, and one Russian company in the top five in terms of investment attractiveness for next year: (true, it has nothing to do with biotech and biopharma):
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