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Molecular Biology is mortally wounded

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Georgy Georgiev: Due to funding cuts, the seven-year work on restoring world-class molecular and cellular biology in the country is in danger of collapse.

21.04.2010
Your health

Vaccines, vaccination and their role in public health

Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Deputy Director General for Science of the International Institute of Vaccines M.Favorov: "You need to be vaccinated against everything that is at risk of infection and from which there is an effective vaccine."

21.04.2010
Healthy skepticism

Generator of youth: immortality – with everything and for nothing!

The "youth generator" is able to reduce the biological age by as much as you like, for example, up to 25-30 years. A person can live at this ideal age for as long as he wants. But immortality should not become the privilege of a group of individuals or even one state.

20.04.2010
Biotechnologies - into life

Development of new drugs: open innovations

The traditional model of drug development stops working. Global pharmaceutical companies are looking for a way out in the concept of open innovation. Russian companies also have a chance to fit into this concept.

20.04.2010
Biomedicine

Will macroketone stop metastases?

Macroketone neutralizes the action of fascin, a protein involved in the stabilization of actin fiber bundles. Without the formation of such bundles, cancer cells cannot move and, accordingly, form metastases.

19.04.2010
Genetics

Features of the national genome

Articles on decoding human genomes are published with pleasure by leading scientific journals. The staff of the Kurchatov Institute posted a brief report on the work in the newly created Russian scientific journal Acta Naturae.

19.04.2010
Biomedicine

Genetic testing: do you need it?

There is undoubtedly an interest in genetic testing in society. But people's expectations of him are usually overstated. Most would like to pass the perfect test that will give them a one hundred percent guarantee, and there simply are no such.

16.04.2010
Biomedicine

Pancreatic prosthesis normalizes insulin and glucagon

The artificial pancreas controls glucose levels and, with the help of a software–controlled pump, injects the necessary amount of the desired hormone – insulin or its antagonist - glucagon.

16.04.2010
Your health

Eurasian Biotechnology Federation

The founders of the Eurasian Biotechnology Federation (EABF) were the leading biotechnological states of the continent: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, India, Mongolia and Austria.

16.04.2010
Genetics

Different diseases – from the same gene complex?

Disorders of the activity of the same genes are to blame for the development of diabetes, atherosclerosis, heart disease, cancer and other diseases. This indicates the possibility of using drugs used in the treatment of other diseases in cancer therapy.

16.04.2010
Healthy skepticism

In 10 years, Russia will enter the top five largest economies in the world

As bonuses, the population will receive an average salary of $ 2,700 per month and a life expectancy of 75 years. And all this after some ten years. This was stated by the head of the presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergey Naryshkin. The article is NOT April Fools!

15.04.2010
Cellular technologies

Stem cell treatment: only for free!

So far, stem cell treatment has the status of clinical trials. This is an experiment, so their treatment is free. Those who suffer from diseases with which research is conducted in official centers of cell therapy can get into the experiment.

15.04.2010
Biomedicine

"Viagra" for rabbits

Attempts to use Viagra by women have been made repeatedly, but this drug is not so effective for the fair sex. Another candidate for the role of "female viagra" gave excellent results... in tests on rabbits :(

15.04.2010
Note to the businessman

Fellow investors!

The Ministry of Economic Development has prepared a draft law "On Investment Partnership", which will allow creating a new form of doing business by analogy with the Western Limited Partnership.

15.04.2010
Cellular technologies

Laboratory rat in a test tube

It is possible to avoid using animals in laboratory experiments: Israeli scientists have shown that it is possible to grow full-fledged skin, as well as bone, fat and muscle tissue from stem cells.

14.04.2010