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Prevention of senile dementia: treat herpes before it's too late!

There is no doubt that the herpes virus is involved in the processes leading to the development of senile dementia. It is necessary to determine whether drugs for the treatment of herpes can slow down or prevent Alzheimer's disease.

11.04.2011
Your health

Biologically lethal additives

Additional lecithins and choline, coming together with biologically active food additives, can be the cause of cardiovascular diseases.

11.04.2011
Cellular technologies

Test tube eye: completely, though not completely

Japanese researchers have reproduced the development of the eye outside of a living organism. The culture of embryonic cells formed a three–dimensional structure - an eye glass, one of the last stages of eye development in mammalian embryos.

08.04.2011
Innovative Russia

Pharmacists need a passport

So far, young innovative companies occupy a negligible share in the Russian pharmaceutical market. And, alas, there are enough factors that can freeze the innovative trend in the domestic pharmaceutical industry.

08.04.2011
Note to the businessman

How to become a RUSNANO supplier

The conference "How to become a RUSNANO supplier" will be held at the office of the same-named JSC on May 25, 2011. Participation in the conference is free of charge.

08.04.2011
Grants and competitions

Scholarships for postgraduate studies in Life Sciences

The Ernst Schering Foundation provides scholarships for dissertation research (postgraduate scholarship) in biology, chemistry, medicine and in interdisciplinary fields – in biochemistry and bioinformatics.

08.04.2011
Your health

Why do you need this hemorrhoid?

Hemorrhoids – hypertrophy of the cavernous veins of the rectal plexus of the rectum – is the most common proctological disease. Before reading the article, we advise the faint of heart to disable the display of drawings.

07.04.2011
Healthy skepticism

The oldest profession can be practiced in 96

Millie provides intimate services for money, and there would be nothing special about it if it weren't for the age of the "night butterfly" – last year she turned 96 years old.

07.04.2011
Exhibitions and conferences

The entry of Russian nanotechnologies into the world market

III Annual Scientific and Practical Conference of the Nanotechnology Society of Russia "Entry of Russian Nanotechnologies into the world market: experience of success and cooperation, problems and prospects" (St. Petersburg, October 5-7, 2011).

07.04.2011
Bioethics

Surrogacy

Lawyer S.V.Lebedev answered the questions of readers of "Mednovosti" about the legal and ethical aspects of surrogacy.

06.04.2011
Innovative Russia

Innovators-schemers

A group of so-called "black" innovators has formed around innovation support institutions, who participate in innovation project competitions solely for the purpose of personal enrichment without the intention of conducting any creative work.

06.04.2011
Innovative Russia

Group biomedicine

Each system project in the field of biomedicine supported by the Skolkovo Foundation can theoretically become a center for collective use.

01.04.2011
Nanotechnology

Ghosts of scary bacteria rattle chains of nanopowder

Encapsulation of antibiotics in nanofibers makes them capable of killing drug-resistant bacteria so effectively that scientists describe the remnants of pathogenic microorganisms as "ghosts".

01.04.2011
Prolonging youth

Paint for prolonging life

Laboratory dye thioflavin T (basic yellow) prolongs the life of C.elegans worms almost twice.

01.04.2011