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Let's say "no" to ageism!

For the first time at the III National Conference "Society for All Ages", a session on ageism will be held, at which domestic and foreign experts will try to develop recommendations for overcoming it.

28.09.2015
Genetic engineering

New scissors for genetic engineering

Cpf1 works like CRISPR-Cas9, which is currently used in experiments to change the human genome, but it has a number of advantages.

28.09.2015
Genetics

Mutating humanity

In the 15 years that have passed since the first rough reading of the human genome, our knowledge of mutations that occur in our genes has increased many times, and the methods of studying them have become much more effective and diverse.

28.09.2015
Other life sciences

When viruses were big…

American biologists have shown that viruses are not lifeless random fragments of DNA that have become "alive" by chance, but the product of the evolution of ancient cell-like structures that have adapted to intracellular parasitism.

28.09.2015
Other life sciences

Telepathy via computer

American scientists were able to make two people read each other's thoughts at a distance. The participants of the experiment successfully played a question-and-answer game: one of them asked a series of questions, and then guessed exactly which object the second one was thinking about

25.09.2015
Other life sciences

Paralyzed patient learned to walk without an exoskeleton

The man, whose both legs were completely paralyzed, learned to walk on his own again. According to the authors of the study, this is the first time in history when a patient regained the ability to move without using robotic exoskeletons.

25.09.2015
Exhibitions and conferences

Patenting for biotechnologists and chemists

Within the framework of the seminars, issues of intellectual property legislation, features of patenting objects of biotechnologies, organic and inorganic chemistry and much more will be considered.

25.09.2015
Grants and competitions

Winter School “Brains, genes, drugs and languages: crossroads in science“

Young specialists (citizens of Russia, Ukraine) under the age of 35 from such fields as genetics, molecular and cellular biology, physiology, biomedicine, neuroscience, computational linguistics, chemistry, biophysics, nanotechnology, pharmacology are invited to participate in the work of the University of Helsinki School.

25.09.2015
Innovative Russia

New medical application of laser

A strontium vapor laser, invented by scientists at Tomsk State University, can be used for cutting and drilling living bone.

25.09.2015
Exhibitions and conferences

VUZPROMEXPO-2015

In the period from December 2 to December 4, 2015, the III National Annual Exhibition-Forum VUZPROMEXPO-2015 will be held in Moscow on the site of Technopolis "Moscow".

25.09.2015
Genetics

An emotion enhancer gene

Owners of one of the SERT gene varieties are more prone to depression if life cracks, but they are happier if everything goes well.

25.09.2015
Various

The cockroach from Kaliningrad

Scientists and engineers of the Baltic Federal University named after I.Kant are finishing work on creating a robot disguised as a 10-centimeter tropical cockroach.

24.09.2015
Note to the businessman

About greedy merchants

Hillary Clinton in her microblog on Twitter promised to present a plan to combat the increase in drug prices. After this statement, the index of biotech companies traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange fell by 4.7%.

23.09.2015
Biomedicine

Pills for the mind (1)

What medications are known today to improve mental abilities and how effective are they?

23.09.2015
Your health

Deadly falsifications

The active ingredients of prescription drugs for erectile dysfunction were found in 80% of the "natural" products studied. In some samples, the dosage was even higher than in tablets.

23.09.2015