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Exhibitions and conferences

EurasiaBio-2010

The second International Congress, Exhibition and partnership on biotechnologies, bioenergy and bioeconomics "EurasiaBio-2010".

14.10.2009
Exhibitions and conferences

German-Russian biotechnologies

Russian-German Biotechnology Forum "Russia and Germany in a Single European Space. German-Russian Biotechnological Cooperative Union"; 3rd Biotechnological Exhibition-Fair "RosBioTech-2009".

14.10.2009
Your health

Women have hormones, men have work

Birth control pills have changed the sexual preferences of modern women, and these changes may not serve humanity well. As for the sexuality of the stronger sex, it can be significantly influenced by the profession of a man.

13.10.2009
Note to the businessman

Fly in-buy shares of innovative and growing companies!

Vice-President of MICEX G. Margolit – about the innovation and investment market, which should become a conveyor for attracting financing by young companies and obtaining promising assets by investors.

13.10.2009
Other life sciences

Nobel Telomeres

It is a pity that Olovnikov was not among those who received the award. At the same time, Blackburn, Grader and Shostak, who have devoted many years to successful experimental studies of telomeres and telomerase, undoubtedly deserve this award.

12.10.2009
Exhibitions and conferences

Nanoforum-2009: results

The official results of the Second International Forum on Nanotechnology have been summed up.

12.10.2009
Other life sciences

The brain-computer interface is squared

The new development is a further step in creating a brain-computer interface. A group of scientists from the University of Southampton has developed a new version of this technology – brain-to-brain communication.

09.10.2009
Note to the businessman

Eight fundamental mistakes of investors

If you do not follow any rules, investments can be both profitable and unprofitable. But if an investor avoids what we will call the fundamental mistakes of investors, then investments always bring profit.

09.10.2009
Genetics

Genome and diseases: counting copies of genes

Predisposition or resistance to diseases is largely due to differences in the number of copies of the corresponding genes. A new study has added a whole dimension to the space of understanding such variations in the human genome.

08.10.2009
Various

About the anti-vaccination movement and anti-vaccination disinformation

Anti-vaccination fighters operate with a set of cleverly packaged false information that defames vaccination in general and individual vaccines in particular. It is thanks to the mythical nature of anti-vaccination misinformation that circulates in the minds of the population.

08.10.2009
Your health

Unsubstantiated medicine

A lot of things in medicine do not have a good scientific foundation at all, some things do not have anything scientific at all, and much is based on very weak, useless scientific research.

08.10.2009
Cellular technologies

Cell therapy: a losing streak

The stem cell-based drug closest to entering the market has not passed final trials, and the first clinical trials of therapy using embryonic stem cells have been postponed indefinitely.

08.10.2009
Exhibitions and conferences

Biotechnology, health and quality of life

The results of the International Scientific Conference on Bioorganic Chemistry, Biotechnology and Bionanotechnology dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the birth of Academician Yuri Anatolyevich Ovchinnikov have been summed up.

08.10.2009
Other life sciences

Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Biophysics

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has become a substitute for the non-existent prize in biology, as well as an addition to the inadequately small prize in physics for such an extensive discipline. All the "true chemists" were left behind.

07.10.2009
Prolonging youth

The genetic source of youth

Researchers developing means to prolong youth have two more potential targets – proteins, the inactivation of which prolongs the life of experimental animals and allows them to maintain good physical and mental shape until old age.

07.10.2009
Healthy skepticism

Mister, you're pregnant!

30 patients of one of the British hospitals, including six elderly men, were notified that the planned operation would have to be postponed due to their pregnancy.

07.10.2009
Healthy skepticism

Organic food is a dangerous toy

The fashionable craze for organic products is far from safe for health and also hinders the development and introduction of advanced technologies into agriculture.

07.10.2009