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Exhibitions and conferences

Pharmaceutical markets of the post-Soviet countries

We invite you to take part in the IV International Forum "Pharmaceutical markets of post-Soviet countries. Common problems – common solutions" (Minsk, April 2-3, 2009).

26.03.2009
Cellular technologies

Medicine of the Future: human embryonic stem cells

The study of embryonic stem cells provides unlimited opportunities for transplant treatment techniques, research of new drugs; it also provides a model for the study of tissue differentiation and allows deeper insight into problems such as infertility and congenital defects of fetal development.

25.03.2009
Your health

Cancer treatment: the enemy is gradually losing ground

Many types of cancer are curable today, but the success of treatment depends on how much money is allocated for treatment by local health authorities and at what stage the patient is diagnosed. The chances of a complete cure increase if the disease can be detected at an early stage.

25.03.2009
Grants and competitions

Postgraduate studies at the Institute. Weizmann (Israel)

Founded in 1958, the Graduate School named after Finberg received the right to award academic degrees of Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy. The training is conducted in the main areas of physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry.

25.03.2009
Bioethics

The dream of a Neanderthal

The recent news that European scientists have restored the genome of a Neanderthal made a splash among anthropologists. The most audacious of them even announced that they would undertake – under conditions of sufficient funding – to revive a living Neanderthal. It cannot be said that this plan has already been accepted by someone as a guide to action, but it caused a lot of noise.

24.03.2009
Your health

Pros and cons of prostate screening

We have to admit that it is still impossible to unequivocally answer the question whether older men need to regularly check the level of prostate-specific antigen. Probably, these disputes will continue until more reliable methods of mass detection of prostate tumors and prediction of their aggressiveness appear.

24.03.2009
Other life sciences

The brilliant Freeman Dyson and his difficult ideas

The official reports of news agencies about the lecture delivered in FIANA by a living legend – Freeman Dyson – are not as interesting as the personal impressions that one of the listeners outlined on his page in Livejournal.

24.03.2009
Biotechnologies - into life

Protection of neuroprotectors!

On the basis of peptides, scientists create neuroprotective drugs that successfully combat the most severe disorders of the nervous system – neurasthenia, stroke, leading to the death of brain neurons and, as a consequence, paralysis and paresis.

23.03.2009
Healthy skepticism

A brief definition of scientific quackery

Pseudoscientific "fabrications" are characterized by universality and universality. A charlatan does not stoop to solving narrow problems. If he has made a revolution in science, then it is global. If he treats oncological diseases with an aspen stick (by God, there is such a patent!) – that's all without exception. If he invented a miracle diet, then it suits everyone, heals completely and without the right to appeal. If it describes a miracle drug, then it has no contraindications and you can give it to anyone.

23.03.2009
Nanotechnology

Supermuscles made of nanotubes

A material has been created for artificial muscles capable of working equally well in liquid nitrogen and molten iron. The gel is slightly heavier than air, tougher than steel and more elastic than rubber, expands three times in milliseconds and becomes denser when it is stretched.

20.03.2009
Various

Falsification of medicines: who benefits?

Falsification of medicines is beneficial not only to those who are directly involved in their production and sale. Often, information about the level of falsification among medicines becomes the subject of political speculation, a kind of horror story for the population.

20.03.2009
Bioethics

Beware of "black transplantologists"!

According to the laws of most countries of the world, including Russia, trafficking in human organs is prohibited. Only one resource of "black transplantologists" deserves attention, but only if there is a tendency to black humor.

20.03.2009
Biomedicine

Cancer vaccine: Is it possible?

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Head of the Department tells about the achievements and prospects of vaccination against cervical cancer. department of transforming tumor genes Fedor Lvovich Kiselyov.

20.03.2009
New in Gerontology

Everyone ages the same way

Analysis of the interaction of proteins regulating aging has shown that their functions and changes in their activity during life are very similar in humans and in simple organisms.

19.03.2009
Your health

The dead loop of free fatty acids

Obesity is the main cause of the plague of the 21st century, metabolic syndrome – a complex of biochemical, hormonal and clinical pathologies leading to insulin resistance, or type II diabetes mellitus, when insulin is produced in the body, but the cells are not sensitive to it. Numerous pathologies associated with obesity are caused by elevated levels of free fatty acids in the blood.

18.03.2009
New in Gerontology

In order not to get old, do not think about sweet things :-)

The main source of energy and carbon for heterotrophic organisms is glucose, but its excess is associated with the aging process, and its lack slows it down. Scientists from the University of Montreal have discovered that life expectancy is influenced not by the metabolic processes occurring with glucose in the cell, but by the cell's feeling of its amount outside.

18.03.2009
New in Gerontology

Life extension, starvation and gene expression

Different protocols for limiting the diet of C. elegans prolong the life of this organism through different molecular pathways. Knowledge of the relative effectiveness in the fight against senile diseases and the molecular mechanisms of various types of dietary regimens may help in the future in the development of pharmacological drugs to increase life expectancy.

18.03.2009
Your health

Health of the nation: Mission impossible

The consequence of inflation and wage cuts was the health of Russians, the improvement of which can be forgotten in the near future. Leonid Roshal, Director of the Research Institute of Emergency Pediatric Surgery and Traumatology, believes that given the recent changes in the economy, "there can be no improvement in the health of the nation in principle. We need to try to maintain the state that we have at the moment."

18.03.2009