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Innovative Russia

Serving the truth and innovative development

Professor Simon Kordonsky: "It is generally accepted that there is no other way for the country's development, other than innovative, and there cannot be. By default, the source of innovation is considered to be science and, above all, domestic academic science. However, I will try to show that this science can hardly become a source of innovative development if it retains the basic principles of its organization and functioning."

29.05.2008
Innovative Russia

Moscow does not believe in innovation

The Moscow City Hall is developing its own urban innovation program. Several structures are ready to lead the process of reviving applied science and the "innovative way of development" of the capital at once. So far, however, not all of them have fully figured out even the terminology.

29.05.2008
Your health

Biologically active additives: what they should be

Based on the principles of evidence-based medicine, fundamentally new data have been obtained regarding the biological role of natural minor biologically active substances for humans. In the Russian Federation, a legislative, regulatory and methodological framework has been formed to ensure the safety of the use of dietary supplements.

28.05.2008
Exhibitions and conferences

Summer 2008: Anti-aging at conferences

I Asian Conference on Aging and Regenerative Medicine, XVI World Congress on Anti-aging Medicine, the Main American Congress on Aesthetic and Anti-aging Medicine, IV Prospective Conference in Santorini on Biology.

28.05.2008
Healthy skepticism

The Secret of James Bond's Health

According to the summary of the results of the study, James Bond owes his excellent state of health to the pliability of bartenders.

28.05.2008
Your health

What to do if you are in pain?

There are a great many varieties of pain. The headache alone has up to a dozen different causes, and accordingly the treatment should be different.

28.05.2008
Exhibitions and conferences

1 st Asian Conference on the Science of Aging and Regenerative Medicine 2008

This event is a scientific and educational forum that seeks to provide practicing physicians, health care professionals and related stakeholders with reports on ground-breaking technologies from a variety of clinical-medical specialties focused on prevention and early intervention of aging related diseases, disorders, and biological processes.

27.05.2008
Genetic engineering

The monkey model of Huntington's Chorea

The significance of this work goes far beyond modeling Huntington's disease. This is generally the first example in the history of science of the creation of transgenic primates carrying a pathological version of the human gene.

27.05.2008
Grants and competitions

Fulbright Program Grants

Each grant includes: a monthly stipend, limited medical insurance, full payment of transportation costs. The age of applicants is not limited.

27.05.2008
Biomedicine

Pills for the mind

By creating drugs that help patients, scientists at the same time offer means to smarten up healthy people. These drugs are commonly called "cognition enhancers" – means that stimulate cognitive abilities.

26.05.2008
Genetic engineering

Mutant mice don't become drug addicts

Mutant mice already familiar with the effects of the drug showed less persistence in trying to get a new dose than ordinary mice in the same situation.

26.05.2008
Biotechnologies - into life

Problems of domestic pharmaceuticals and possible solutions

The pharmaceutical industry in the modern economy is a kind of litmus test showing the level of its innovative development. We are talking with Andrey Ivashchenko, the project manager of the ChemRar Central Research Center, about what problems there are in the domestic pharmaceutical industry and about possible ways to solve them.

26.05.2008
Genetic engineering

Will Jurassic Park become a reality?

If we take into account that today the closest relatives of dinosaurs are birds, then we can say not only that "Jurassic Park" is far from reality, but also about the error of the screenwriters – because there little lizards hatched from crocodile eggs.

26.05.2008
Nanotechnology

Nanobiotechnology: a systematic approach to living

Professor Vadim Govorun, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the State Research Institute of Physico-Chemical Medicine of Roszdrav, tells about what is happening in the rapidly developing field of nanobiotechnology.

26.05.2008
Grants and competitions

Young. Audacious. Promising

The Committee on Science and Higher Education of the Government of St. Petersburg announces the acceptance of applications for participation in the XI Contest of business ideas, scientific and technical developments and research projects among students, graduate students and young managers under the motto "Young. Audacious. Promising."

26.05.2008
Other life sciences

Molecular genetic evolution of man

To understand how genes changed in evolution and these changes “made a person”, first consider a simpler question: how genes “make a person” in individual development.

23.05.2008