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On someone else 's misfortune

The way pharmaceutical companies set prices for medicines is "one of the dirty secrets of the industry," admitted Bernard Munos, a former representative of Lilly's management.

19.05.2014
Your health

Breast cancer: myths and facts

The controversial benefits of mammography, breast cancer in men, genes and preventive mastectomy, contraception and early pregnancy and rumors about the dangers of antiperspirants, phones, bras, implants and bruises.

19.05.2014
Cellular technologies

Induced stem cells can replace bone defects

Experiments on rhesus monkeys demonstrated the possibility of forming new bone tissue from autologous induced pluripotent stem cells and a low risk of teratomas.

16.05.2014
Healthy skepticism

Terrorists in the State Duma

The spread of genetically modified products is proposed to be equated with terrorism. At least, such an initiative was made by State Duma deputies, who are eager to protect their compatriots from the achievements of genetic engineering.

16.05.2014
Innovative Russia

Russian drug against prostate cancer

Avionco is launching clinical trials of ONK1-0013B, the first Russian innovative drug for the treatment of prostate cancer.

16.05.2014
Genetic engineering

Probiotics-ferromagnets

Probiotic bacteria with oxymagnetite nanoparticles on the outer surface have acquired ferromagnetic properties that can be used in MRI diagnostics, as well as in the treatment of cancer of the digestive organs.

16.05.2014
Exhibitions and conferences

Startup Village – 2014

Preparations are continuing for Startup Village 2014, one of the most significant events of the year, which will take place on June 2-3, 2014 on the territory of the Skolkovo Innovation Center.

16.05.2014
Exhibitions and conferences

Conference on Bioorgchemistry, Biotechnology and Bionanotechnology

The International Conference dedicated to the 55th anniversary of the IBH RAS and the 80th anniversary of the birth of Academician Yu.A. Ovchinnikov is the largest forum bringing together specialists in the field of bioorganic chemistry, biotechnology, bionanotechnology.

15.05.2014
Genetic engineering

DNA with three base pairs: details

Adding a pair of synthetic compounds to a standard set of nucleotides allows you to encode the synthesis of not twenty, but one hundred and seventy-two amino acids. The number of protein variants that can be synthesized with their help becomes simply astronomical.

15.05.2014
Other life sciences

Space is bad for you

Traveling in space can make you weak, tired, sick and, with a certain degree of probability, suffering from depression.

14.05.2014
Controversial

Resveratrol case: investigation continues

Despite the initial optimism, it was not possible to get unambiguous results with resveratrol, and his adventures in modern biology can pull on a small, but extremely confusing detective series.

14.05.2014
Nanotechnology

Radiation, chemical and biological protection beetles

Researchers from South Korea have created tiny flexible electronic devices that can be attached to living creatures, including insects and plants. Live sensors will be able to detect various chemicals and monitor the state of the environment.

14.05.2014
Prolonging youth

MitoQ rejuvenates the circulatory system

The arteries of mice whose age corresponded to human 70-80 years, after a month's course of the antioxidant MitoQ functioned as well as the arteries of mice whose age corresponded to 25-35 years of human age.

14.05.2014
Nanotechnology

Drinkable Book – a book for water purification

One sheet of the "drinking book" is designed to purify up to one hundred liters of water, which covers a person's monthly need, and the whole book can supply a person with drinking water for a year and a half.

14.05.2014
Biomedicine

Pork bladder helps muscle regeneration

Surgical implantation of the extracellular matrix of the porcine bladder in another clinical study provided strengthening and partial regeneration of injured leg muscles in three out of five patients.

14.05.2014
Grants and competitions

Subsidies for young St. Petersburg scientists

The Committee on Science and Higher Education announces a competitive selection for the provision of subsidies in 2014 to young scientists, young candidates of sciences of universities, industry and academic institutions located in St. Petersburg.

13.05.2014