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Note to the businessman

Venture and seed funds of nanotechnology

RUSNANO plans to participate in 5 main types of venture funds: nanotechnology seed funds, low-budget project funds, industry funds, international nanotechnology funds, as well as funds organized under intergovernmental agreements.

15.06.2009
Nanotechnology

Gallop on nanotechnology

If you think that nanotechnology is a distant future or even the lot of science fiction, then you are mistaken. Nature "invented" nanotechnology (as well as many other things) long before man, who only in the last few decades has been following the same path, trying to repeat some of her inventions. The successes so far are quite modest, but scientists have already managed to achieve some achievements in the field of nanotechnology.

11.06.2009
Note to the businessman

Officials are against innovation

The Strategy for the development of the pharmaceutical industry of the Russian Federation until 2020 is based on two main theses: the creation of innovative drugs and the import substitution program. If every worthwhile innovative drug makes its way to the domestic market with such a fight, and the reasons for the verdict "not fit" will be hidden by officials, the strategy will not be implemented.

11.06.2009
Innovative Russia

Resuscitation of innovations

Participants of the international forum "Days of Russian Innovations" presented specific projects to stimulate innovation.

11.06.2009
Healthy skepticism

From the hands of A and F do not accept advertising

The leadership of the Federal State Institution "Russian Cardiology Center" addressed a letter to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "AIF" N.I. Zyatkov, in which, in particular, it says: "thousands of patients can quit treatment and then, indeed, the epidemic of stroke will begin. Have you thought, Mr. Editor, what this advertisement can bring?"

10.06.2009
Grants and competitions

According to the Hamburg account

The purpose of the Program is to enable young specialists from St. Petersburg and the North–Western region of Russia to undergo training and specialization at enterprises and organizations in the city of Hamburg.

08.06.2009
Biomedicine

RNA interference: Silencing genes

Classical RNA interference is the action of siRNA, the other short RNAs (microRNAs and antigenrnas) resemble interference to some extent by the mechanism of action, but do not fit into the usual scheme.

04.06.2009
Other life sciences

Distributed computing: Volunteers at the service of science

Distributed computing has penetrated into many branches of science, becoming a reliable partner of scientists. Millions of people have turned from statisticians of scientific progress into its direct participants. The international audience of distributed computing is growing, uniting people from different countries in a common desire to uncover the secrets of the universe.

02.06.2009
Exhibitions and conferences

Achievements of clinical pharmacology in Russia

The second scientific and practical conference with international participation "Achievements of clinical pharmacology in Russia" will be held on September 7-8, 2009 in Moscow.

02.06.2009
New in Gerontology

Do free radicals slow down aging?

Reactive oxygen species, the harm of which mountains of scientific articles have been written about, turned out to be just as necessary for the body as, for example, cholesterol. A small but constant dose of free radicals is exactly what helps the body cope with premature aging.

02.06.2009
Biomedicine

Induced pluripotent stem cells for gene therapy of hereditary diseases

Belmonte and his colleagues restored a genetic defect in patients' fibroblasts and turned them into induced pluripotent stem cells. Taking into account the fact that bone marrow transplantation is a proven technology, and there is not much choice in patients with Fanconi anemia, the introduction of the method will have to wait less than gene therapy for other diseases.

01.06.2009
Healthy skepticism

Cheaters in white coats

About 2% of scientists report that at least once they invented or falsified their data in order to demonstrate not the real, but the desired result. Another 34% of scientists reported that they had committed "minor" frauds once or more often. Most often, specialists in the field of medicine and pharmacology confessed both to their misdeeds and to what they knew about the falsifications of colleagues.

01.06.2009
Genetic engineering

Mice with a human "speech gene" squeaked in a bass voice

The "humanization" of mice with the help of the Foxp2 speech gene does not affect them in the best way. Rodents become more passive and get less pleasure from life. But the processes of their nerve cells become much longer and more active, complicating the structure of the brain.

01.06.2009
Innovative Russia

Competition of Russian innovations: biotechnology and medicine are ahead

Last Friday, the traditional awards of the Russian Innovation Competition, which the Expert media holding has been holding for the eighth year in a row, were presented at the Moscow Central House of Scientists. To the surprise of the expert council, a large number of developments in the field of biotechnology and medicine were presented, they also made up the majority among the winners.

01.06.2009
Cellular technologies

Are induced pluripotent stem cells ready for use?

Scientists have managed to obtain induced pluripotent stem cells from human skin cells without the use of foreign nucleic acids or proteins. The technology is based on the use of four modified proteins obtained using human cell culture.

01.06.2009