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Other life sciences

New Distributed Computing Project: Flu Medicines

The aim of the project is to search for new drugs that stop the spread of the influenza virus in the human body. There is no need to go far for an example of the relevance of the project – right now the world is afraid of a possible influenza A/H1N1 pandemic.

06.05.2009
Other life sciences

Parallel sequencing: A new era in proteomics

The combination of ribosomal profiling and parallel high-performance sequencing of a new generation has given rise to a method by which scientists can observe the translation of thousands of mRNAs simultaneously.

05.05.2009
Cellular technologies

Magnetic Nanoparticles Help stem cells build bones

When growing artificial bones, you can do without matrices. Instead, a suspension of magnetic nanoparticles can be added to the stem cell culture: under the influence of an external magnetic field, cells line up in the same linear structures as in bone tissue.

04.05.2009
New in Gerontology

If you give birth late, you live a long time

If you have a relative who gave birth to a child after 45 years, then perhaps your family has a good inheritance that promises you a long life.

04.05.2009
Other life sciences

Carbon-14: defuse the bomb!

TO: Onishchenko G.G. CONCERNING: Stricter standards for radiocarbon. We urge you to initiate the adoption of stricter restrictions on the limit of the annual intake of biologically significant carbon-14 into the human body.

30.04.2009
Grants and competitions

Subsidies to young scientists of St. Petersburg

The Committee on Science and Higher Education announces a competitive selection for the provision of subsidies in 2009 to young scientists of universities and academic institutions located in St. Petersburg.

30.04.2009
Innovative Russia

The role of the pharmaceutical industry in innovative development

The pharmaceutical industry today is one of the most innovative and capacious industries. And it is in this industry that it is most difficult to establish an innovation process. Please note that only highly developed countries can afford their own innovative pharmaceutical industry. And if they managed to establish an innovation process in this segment of the economy, then in other segments it usually also succeeds.

29.04.2009
Exhibitions and conferences

Russian Innovation Week

The autumn business season will be opened by the "Russian Innovation Week", which will be held from September 30 to October 8, 2009 in St. Petersburg and Moscow

28.04.2009
Healthy skepticism

Much ado about swine flu

There is nothing supernatural in what doctors report about the nature of the virus and the symptoms of swine flu. Also, probably, there was nothing supernatural in the entertainment radio drama based on the novel by G. Wales. But the willingness to support almost any information with mass psychosis and panic is amazing.

27.04.2009
Your health

Dietary supplements: fraud in law

Transcript of reports by the Chairman of the Public Council for the Protection of Patients' Rights at Roszdravnadzor, President of the League for Patient Protection A.V. Saversky, President of the Society of Evidence-based Medicine Specialists K.D. Danishevsky and Executive Director of the Interregional Public Organization "Society for Pharmacoeconomical Research" O.V. Borisenko at the press conference "Bioactive additives: who legalized fraud and how?".

24.04.2009
Controversial

Actually, old people's teeth don't grow...

Theoretically, he may have new teeth," says Vladimir Havinson. – Apparently, these were the beginnings of some teeth, the growth of which could be delayed due to the same blockade. Rather, these are not new teeth, but old ones that did not germinate at the time. Such a developmental delay.

23.04.2009
Genetics

Mental retardation is hidden in the X chromosome

Geneticists have found nine genes on the X chromosome that lead to mental retardation in men. The disease is hereditary. True, genes are not passed on from fathers, but from mothers.

23.04.2009
Other life sciences

Investing in hospitals of the future

The book will be of value to anyone who is interested in planning, financing, construction and management of newly created medical and preventive institutions.

23.04.2009
Biomedicine

Science in Siberia: Nanobiotechnology for Medicine

The examples described in this article, covering only part of the research in the field of nanobiotechnology, will allow the reader to judge the serious approach of Siberian scientists to solving important problems facing modern medicine.

23.04.2009
Grants and competitions

Young nanotechnologists are invited to the competition

The Second international competition of scientific works of young scientists in the field of nanotechnology will be held within the framework of the Second International Forum on Nanotechnology (hereinafter – the Forum), held by the State Corporation "Russian Corporation of Nanotechnology" from October 6 to 8, 2009.

23.04.2009
Cellular technologies

Induced pluripotent stem cells: micro-RNAs instead of potential oncogenes

To reprogram skin cells and transform them into pluripotent cells that do not differ in properties from embryonic cells, it is possible to use not the delivery of "pluripotency genes" into their nuclei, which are potential oncogenes, but the introduction of micro-RNAs characteristic of embryonic cells.

21.04.2009
Other life sciences

20 new biotechnical breakthroughs that will change medicine

From the saliva test for cancer to the injection that restores the nerves of the spinal cord, all these advances in medicine blur the line between biology and technology in order to restore human health, improve and prolong his life.

21.04.2009
Biomedicine

To treat brain cancer, nanoparticles were stuffed with scorpion venom

The fact that scorpion venom is able to fight the spread of cancer cells has been known for a long time (however, the best indicator did not exceed 45%). To increase the effectiveness, the active substance chlorotoxin (chlorotoxin) was combined with nanoparticles, which led to the "stopping" of 98% of cells.

21.04.2009