Articles

Found results: 16339

Healthy skepticism

Papua New Russia

The conversations about modernization and innovation that Russians have been hearing regularly for almost ten years are very similar (according to the author! the editors disagree with this!!!) on the Papuan folk religion – cargo cult.

31.05.2011
New in Gerontology

Telomere length analysis – the way to health?

Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn – about the incorrect statements of the media about the recently developed test for determining the length of telomeres and the importance of such testing for doctors and their patients.

31.05.2011
Cellular technologies

Direct conversion of fibroblasts into neurons

After successful experiments on the transformation of skin cells (fibroblasts) of mice directly into neurons using a combination of proteins, scientists applied the same technique to human cells.

30.05.2011
Nanotechnology

Buy nanotechnology in the online store!

Within the framework of the Innovus 2011 forum, Alexander Morozov, Director of the Department of Demand Stimulation Programs of RUSNANO, presented the information and communication portal "Effective Nanotechnology Solutions"

30.05.2011
Biotechnologies - into life

Biomedicine in Skolkovo: new residents

The Skolkovo biomedical cluster includes a number of companies planning to develop and launch innovative diagnostic systems and biopharmaceuticals on the Russian market.

27.05.2011
Biotechnologies - into life

Membrane protein research has found an investor

MIPT and the private investment fund ONEXIM announced the launch of a joint project to create a laboratory "Advanced research of membrane Proteins" on the basis of the interdisciplinary Scientific and Educational Center "Bionanophysics".

27.05.2011
Various

Smokers and drunkards will be cured with a ruble

The draft amendments to the Tax Code provide that excise taxes on vodka – and hence retail prices – will increase by an average of 30% per year, and on cigarettes – even faster.

27.05.2011
Biomedicine

Modern approaches to the development of anticancer drugs

Cancer cannot be spoken of as a single disease, and a substance that would cure all types of cancer does not exist and cannot exist. Maybe your medicine will be active against 10% of forms of cancer of a certain tissue. Does it make sense to develop such a drug?

26.05.2011
Bioethics

Posthumous children: allow cannot be banned

The problem of fertilization with the sperm of a deceased person exists all over the world. In countries where such manipulation is not prohibited by law, but is not allowed, lawsuits occur from time to time

26.05.2011
Biomedicine

We have a stroke, and we are getting stronger!

A serious, but not fatal stroke triggers mechanisms in brain cells that provide effective protection of neurons, glial cells and blood vessels from subsequent strokes.

25.05.2011
Genetics

DNA behind bars

In Russia, the creation of a single DNA database of all particularly dangerous criminals is beginning. The registration of these data was legalized by the State Duma, but it is not yet clear who and how will collect the DNA of prisoners.

25.05.2011
Cellular technologies

Artificial astrocytes have been created

The possibility of obtaining large homogeneous samples of astrocytes from embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells opens up prospects for a better study of their functions, as well as for the development of new effective drugs for nervous diseases.

25.05.2011
Other life sciences

The power of thought

A person can use his mind to control a toy car and put puzzles together. Such developments are also being carried out in the laboratory of neurophysiology and neurocomputer interfaces of the MSU biofac.

25.05.2011
Cellular technologies

Stem cells against liver cirrhosis

Cells of various adult tissues converted into induced pluripotent stem cells and differentiated into hepatocytes restored liver tissue of mice with chronic cirrhosis.

25.05.2011
Grants and competitions

Postdoctoral grants for "-omics"

10 international scholarships of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) will be offered to young scientists specializing in "-omics": metagenomics, genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics.

24.05.2011