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Genetics

Do short telomeres warn about diabetes?

Shortening of telomeres can serve not only as an indicator of aging, but perhaps also as a biomarker for the development of diabetes.

29.03.2011
Innovative Russia

People don't need unhealthy innovations

A detailed report on the conference "Technology Exchanges of Russia and the West: how to attract investment in Russian innovations?" under the provocative title "Innovations in Russian: auto-training instead of eliminating system errors."

28.03.2011
Exhibitions and conferences

Healthcare in the 21st century

The scientific and practical conference "Healthcare in the 21st century" will be held on April 5, 2011.

28.03.2011
Innovative Russia

The most innovative companies in Russia

The National Association of Innovations and Development of Information Technologies (NAIRIT) has prepared a rating of the fifty most innovative Russian companies.

25.03.2011
Various

Freeloaders and retired investors

The reasons for the shortage of money in the Pension Fund are in the bad investment, business and legal climate in the country. And only by raising the retirement age and increasing taxes, this disease can no longer be cured.

25.03.2011
Biomedicine

Overcome the blood-brain barrier: details

Exosomes injected into the blood – the smallest capsules produced by most cells of the body, are able to transfer the drug to the brain through the usually impenetrable blood-brain barrier.

25.03.2011
Biotechnologies - into life

About biopolymers, biotechnologies and drug production

Yuri Vorobyov, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the SB RAS, spoke about research that will improve biotechnology and the process of drug production and about the work of a scientist in Russia and the USA.

25.03.2011
Genetics

Genome sequencing: another record

The third-generation sequencer, which was able to read the genome of a bacterium in just an hour, still costs over $700,000, but the first "fast" sequencers cost about a million.

25.03.2011
Genetics

Naltrexone helps drunks. But not everyone

The blocker of opioid receptors of the mu type in the brain – naltrexone – helps men with a certain mutation in the OPRM1 gene to refuse alcohol abuse, and women – even without such a mutation.

25.03.2011
Innovative Russia

Geographical clusters and State policy

the policy of geographical concentration is a very risky business, especially when it comes to copying the "best samples". Therefore, we recommend that political leaders abandon the Silicon Valley model.

24.03.2011
Exhibitions and conferences

FUTURTECH 2011

The First International Scientific and Technological Exhibition FUTURTECH 2011 will be held in Rimini, Italy, from September 6 to 8, 2011, as part of the implementation of the course to modernize the Russian economy and strengthen its partnerships.

24.03.2011
Innovative Russia

The Russians are coming!

Soon, the production of tagless biodetectors and bionoslides developed by the American company BiOptix Diagnostics will start working in Russia, and RUSNANO USA, a subsidiary of JSC RUSNANO, has started work in a new office in Silicon Valley.

24.03.2011
Cellular technologies

Live spermatozoa from frozen testes

Artificial insemination of experimental mice with the obtained spermatozoa led to the birth of mice of both sexes, which themselves were able to produce offspring.

24.03.2011
Other life sciences

Life. Science Version

The festival "Life. Version of Science" started today and will last until April 17. It is dedicated to various aspects of life – the origin of life, evolution, new possibilities of medicine, the development of artificial intelligence and robotics.

24.03.2011
Exhibitions and conferences

Healthy lifestyle-2011

V International Exhibition "Healthy Lifestyle-2011" (5-9 December 2011, Moscow, Central Exhibition Complex "Expocentre").

24.03.2011
Your health

Cancer: good news

No disease is probably surrounded by such an ominous atmosphere as cancer. But oncology is largely mythologized.

24.03.2011
Biomedicine

All-in-one nanoparticles for cancer diagnosis and treatment

The new nanoparticle is a package of tools for several types of imaging and treatment, the combination of which can be selected in a way that was previously difficult to even imagine. And the unprecedented safety of such nanoparticles for the body crowns the success of scientists.

24.03.2011
Innovative Russia

Global Innovation Partnership: to Russia with love

The heads of 25 key European venture funds and the heads of leading international technology companies will take part in the II International Forum "Global Innovation Partnership", which will be held in Moscow and Kazan on April 18-22, 2011.

24.03.2011