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Other life sciences

Fighting obesity: Cheat the Hunger hormone

Hoping to develop a drug that suppresses hunger, the researchers blocked the work of a protein that activates the "hunger hormone" – ghrelin.

24.11.2010
Your health

Diabetics! Switch from pills to red!

Some red wines contain such an amount of polyphenols that the biological activity of one glass of such wine is equivalent to several daily doses of antidiabetic drugs.

23.11.2010
Grants and competitions

Presidential grants for young scientists

The subject of the competitions is the right to receive grants from the President of the Russian Federation for state support of young Russian scientists – candidates and doctors of sciences.

23.11.2010
Various

Returnees: Boris Zhivotovsky, researcher of apoptosis

I plan to divide the research into two parts. The first is a fundamental study of the mechanisms of cell death by the type of apoptosis and autophagy. The second is the use of the acquired knowledge to fight diseases, in particular cancer.

22.11.2010
Exhibitions and conferences

International Conference "Receptors and Intracellular Signaling"

The purpose of the conference is to present and discuss new data in the field of reception and intracellular signaling, molecular mechanisms of intracellular signaling in normal, their regulation and correction in pathology.

19.11.2010
Healthy skepticism

Priority measures to reduce the world's population

Help the world government reduce humanity to a golden billion – promote quack techniques, homeopathy, refusal of vaccinations, urine therapy, childbirth in concrete and sulfuric acid!

18.11.2010
Grants and competitions

Competition "Young scientist of Alltech"

The competition of scientific papers of students and postgraduates was established by the American biotechnology company Alltech, engaged in the development and production of drugs for the health and productivity of animals.

18.11.2010
Biomedicine

Troponin T will warn about the risk of cardiovascular diseases

A new method for determining troponin T in the blood, 10 times more sensitive than the existing ones, will allow determining the likelihood of developing diseases of the cardiovascular system and timely, in 10-15 years, take measures to prevent them.

17.11.2010
Biomedicine

Cancer drugs: each case is unique

For the occurrence of cancer, signal cascades are of the greatest importance, which stimulate the division of cells in the embryo, but they are not turned on in an adult. The search for substances capable of suppressing their work is one of the promising approaches to the development of drugs against cancer.

16.11.2010
Grants and competitions

V Internet Olympiad on Nanotechnology: the nearest plans

The qualifying round of the V Internet Olympiad in Nanotechnology will be held until January 31, 2011, and the main events of the intramural round will be completed until March 31, 2011.

16.11.2010
Various

Russian science will buy brains. Expensive.

The megagrant competition was immediately called unique for Russian science. After all, the amount of grants turned out to be attractive not only for domestic scientists, but also for the best specialists in the world.

15.11.2010
Cellular technologies

Stem cells without formalism

"It is necessary that all the formalities take place as quickly as possible," commented the head of the Department of General Hematology of the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital Mikhail Maschan - V.Putin is trying to solve the problem of importing stem cells from abroad.

15.11.2010
Biotechnologies - into life

DNA diagnostics: a success story

The history of the St. Petersburg company Fractal Bio, which supplies reagents for DNA diagnostics, is an example from a textbook.

15.11.2010