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Scammers in white coats

Almost half a billion dollars were stolen from the state program of free medical care for the elderly.

15.05.2012
Other life sciences

A personal HIV test is two percent short

In the clinic, the OraQuick test system determines the presence or absence of HIV infection with 99% accuracy. The accuracy of the test for self-use was 93%; according to the requirements of the FDA, this indicator should be at least 95%.

15.05.2012
Grants and competitions

Photonics postdocs are invited to Barcelona

Research area: biophotonics, photomedicine, nanophotonics, nanotechnology, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, quantum computer science, laser physics, optoelectronics, etc.

15.05.2012
Exhibitions and conferences

Healthy lifestyle – 2012

The forum and exhibition "Health|Life – A Healthy lifestyle" (Moscow, Sokolniki Exhibition and Exhibition Center, June 5-7, 2012) will allow companies working in the field of production and promotion of products and services to maintain and strengthen health, preserve beauty to demonstrate their achievements.

15.05.2012
Theories of aging

Another secret of longevity of naked diggers

The exceptionally long lifespan of naked diggers may also be due to the peculiarities of cellular mechanisms for processing proteins damaged by free radicals.

14.05.2012
Other life sciences

Optoelectronic retina without batteries

To create an artificial retina, scientists decided to use solar cells activated by an infrared ray, which made it possible to combine the transmission of visual information with the transmission of energy and simplify the device of the implant.

14.05.2012
Genetic engineering

Gene therapy against hearing loss

A good result has so far been achieved only in mice no older than two weeks. But the results obtained confirm the possibility of gene therapy for sensorineural hearing loss – hearing loss caused by a violation of the functions of hair cells.

14.05.2012
Various

Patch-heart monitor

A disposable device resembling a patch measuring 5 by 13 cm, slightly more than 10 mm thick and weighing 34 g, can continuously record an ECG for two weeks.

14.05.2012
Your health

Subtleties of wine treatment

"Drinking wine is just as harmful as taking poison," wrote the Roman philosopher Seneca. However, the difference between the drug and the poison is only in the dose. This rule fully applies to the "milk of Venus", as wine was called in antiquity.

12.05.2012
Genetics

Grandmothers saved us from breast cancer

The "breast cancer genes" BRCA1 and BRCA2 increase women's fertility by one and a half times, and without restraining factors, breast cancer would become a universal phenomenon. But without the care of a grandmother who died of cancer, the child was less likely to survive and pass the mutation to the next generation.

11.05.2012
Grants and competitions

Competition of innovative projects of St. Petersburg

The St. Petersburg Committee for Science and Higher Education announces in 2012 a competition for the best innovative projects in the field of science and higher professional education.

11.05.2012
Nanotechnology

Cyborg cells

The full title of the review article by the staff of the Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology of KFU, published in the prestigious journal Chemical Society Reviews, reads as follows: "Cyborg cells: functionalization of living cells using polymers and nanomaterials."

10.05.2012
Note to the businessman

Problem area

Residents of the St. Petersburg special economic zone, created 5 years ago, still cannot take advantage of the preferences provided by a residence permit in it.

10.05.2012
Grants and competitions

Rusnanoprize-2012: apply!

This year, the theme of the largest international award in the field of nanotechnology is medicine, pharmacology and biotechnology.

10.05.2012
Biomedicine

How to incite T-lymphocytes on a tumor?

Modified T-cell receptors can selectively bind to tumor cells, marking them for destruction by T-lymphocytes, normally reacting to microorganisms, and not to cancer cells.

10.05.2012
Grants and competitions

Hurry up to the workshops in Cold Spring Harbor and EMBO!

Dynasty grants for participation in practical courses at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the European Molecular Biology Organization will be awarded to 10 biologists who were the first to pass the competition.

05.05.2012
Biomedicine

Epigenetics will detect breast cancer years before the onset of the disease

The authors of the technique hope that this is only the beginning of understanding the contribution of epigenetics to the development of breast cancer, and in the coming years they expect to find many more examples of the effect of gene modification on the risk of developing various diseases.

05.05.2012