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Nanotechnology

Laboratory on a smartphone: premature delight?

The specificity of the experimental technique was 79%. Simply put, every fifth result was erroneous. This is already better than fortune-telling, but it is still very far from the requirements of medical standards.

12.02.2015
Other life sciences

Evaluation of innovations in healthcare

To understand how innovative medical technologies are being introduced at the state level, representatives of biomedical startups, developers of pharmaceutical products, medical devices and diagnostics gathered in Skolkovo.

11.02.2015
Grants and competitions

Seventh Innovation Award

The awards will be awarded to innovative projects in the following areas: medicines, medical devices, medical technologies and e-health.

11.02.2015
Various

Queen Elizabeth Prize in Engineering – 2015

Professor Robert Langer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a million pounds for the further development of a system for the targeted delivery of drugs and microchip implants.

11.02.2015
Other life sciences

"Longevity protein" protects against Alzheimer's disease

An increase in the level of the klotho life-prolonging protein in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease protected the animals' brains from the toxic effects of abnormal proteins associated with the disease.

11.02.2015
Your health

Is palm oil harmful

Despite the fact that palm oil is quite well studied from the point of view of medicine and is not banned in any country in the world, there are a huge number of publications in the Russian media about its harm.

11.02.2015
Other life sciences

What is revaccination for?

Repeated administration of the vaccine improves immune memory due to the fact that a new stage of evolution of B cells that improve antibodies against infection is launched.

11.02.2015
Other life sciences

Error Correction Award

The Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of science and innovation was awarded to Nikita Kuznetsov, a senior researcher at the IBiFM SB RAS, for studying the mechanisms of DNA repair.

11.02.2015
Other life sciences

Insulin without overdose

Molecular biologists from MIT have created an analogue of insulin, which independently "manages" its effectiveness, which will allow diabetics in the near future not to be afraid of hypoglycemia and inject the drug into the body much less often.

10.02.2015
Innovative Russia

For the Nobel

Will the price of paid university tuition increase? Why did scientists take up the monitoring of the press? What role do the "star" deans Mikhail Piotrovsky and Valery Gergiev play in the life of St. Petersburg State University? About this and much more – the rector of St. Petersburg State University Nikolai Kropachev.

10.02.2015
Other life sciences

Robotic drag design is being improved

During the first "combat" tests, the Eve robot successfully coped with the development of a new drug designed to fight malaria.

10.02.2015
Other life sciences

Orthoses received funding

The startup "Zdravprint" received 100 thousand dollars of investment for the development and introduction of plastic fixators – orthoses, which can be used instead of plaster for the healing of fractures and chronic joint diseases.

09.02.2015
Various

Population ageing: a triumph and a challenge

The aging of the population is a triumph of civilization. You can't talk about the elderly as a burden. This position is shared by Gayane Safarova, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the St. Petersburg Economic and Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

09.02.2015
New in Gerontology

Rapid demethylation of the genome is a harbinger of early death

Risk of early death in people with non-methylated (relative to the age norm) DNA does not depend on their lifestyle, the presence of diabetes or problems with the heart and blood vessels and other factors affecting life expectancy.

09.02.2015
Genetics

Obama spares no money on gene diagnostics

US President Barack Obama, in his annual State of the Union address to Congress, made a proposal to allocate hundreds of millions of dollars for the development of treatment taking into account the genetic characteristics of patients.

06.02.2015
Genetics

Evolution has a beginning…

Human evolution, experts believe, is proceeding at the same "prehistoric" pace, despite a sharp decline in child and adult mortality and fertility and the alleged absence of natural selection.

06.02.2015