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Biomedicine

Will the new "Skulachev ions" help with a stroke?

Chemical compounds that can selectively accumulate in mitochondria, reducing their membrane potential, have neuroprotective properties and can be used for the treatment of stroke and a number of other neurological diseases.

04.09.2014
Other life sciences

Cancer treatment methods

Where can I find a reason to hope that cancer will ever be cured? Rapid progress cannot be expected, but recent studies inspire some optimism.

04.09.2014
Exhibitions and conferences

Pharma Russia 2014

On October 28, the Vedomosti newspaper is holding the annual Pharma Russia 2014 event in a new format.

04.09.2014
Cellular technologies

Artificial liver: made in Russia

Scientists of the V.I. Shumakov Federal Research Center for the first time in Russia created a bio-artificial liver based on cellular technologies and conducted its successful preclinical tests.

04.09.2014
Healthy skepticism

Is our diet the most effective? Don't believe the ads!

Branded weight loss programs represent an entire industry with multibillion-dollar turnover. The advertising of each of these diets claims that it is the most effective and beneficial for health. In fact, there is no difference between them.

04.09.2014
Exhibitions and conferences

RosBioTech-2014: the world of active longevity

We invite scientific organizations and industrial enterprises and companies specializing in the field of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical industry, ecology and environmental protection, in the field of health protection and the world of active longevity, to take part in the forum-exhibition.

03.09.2014
Grants and competitions

Dynasty grants for young biologists

The Dynasty Foundation announces another competition for grants for young biologists specializing in molecular and cellular biology.

02.09.2014
Biomedicine

Will young blood help with Alzheimer's disease?

In October of this year, a clinical trial is due to begin, in which patients with Alzheimer's disease will be injected with the blood of young people in the hope of improving their condition.

02.09.2014
Other life sciences

About the benefits of useless knowledge

Konstantin Severinov, Professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and Rutgers University, USA, spoke about the role of chance in modern biomedical research.

02.09.2014
Various

Support for Russian science: a hat in a circle

A prize has been established in Russia for scientists, engineers and inventors working in various fields of science and technology, which for the first time in the history of scientific awards will be formed through public funding.

01.09.2014
Biotechnologies - into life

Genetic analysis in Russia: a success story

The Russian company "Genotek", founded in 2010 by graduates of Moscow State University, was one of the first in the developing Russian "genetic" market. In two and a half years from the start of sales, the company has already brought their volume to $ 1 million per year.

01.09.2014
Other life sciences

Finalists of the competition for the creation of a "Tricorder"

Ten teams of engineers were selected by the jury of the Tricorder XPrize competition in order to translate the idea of the Tricorder device from the Star Trek series into reality and make it accessible to a wide range of consumers.

01.09.2014
Cellular technologies

Picking up the keys to pluripotence

A group of scientists from the University of Michigan has shown that the ASF1A and OCT4 genes active in human eggs, together with the hormone-like substance GDF9, facilitate the process of reprogramming somatic cells into pluripotent ones.

01.09.2014
Other life sciences

And the heart beats like a clock

Swiss scientists have developed a prototype of a heart rate driver working without batteries, which is based on a classic self-winding clockwork.

01.09.2014
Innovative Russia

The latest cancer diagnosis will be available by 2017

Specialists of the subsidiary of the nanocenter "Sigma.Novosibirsk" has developed a technology with the help of which it will be possible to diagnose cancer at the early stage in any polyclinic.

29.08.2014