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Fulbright Program Grants
Each grant includes: a monthly stipend, limited medical insurance, full payment of transportation costs. The age of applicants is not limited.
27.05.2008- English version
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Bioethics
The European Court of Human Rights will consider the case of chimpanzees
Having gone through all the instances up to the Supreme Court of the country, animal rights activists could not achieve the identity status for Matthew, because for obvious reasons the monkey could not express his consent to the registration of custody.
27.05.2008
Biomedicine
Pills for the mind
By creating drugs that help patients, scientists at the same time offer means to smarten up healthy people. These drugs are commonly called "cognition enhancers" – means that stimulate cognitive abilities.
26.05.2008
Genetic engineering
Mutant mice don't become drug addicts
Mutant mice already familiar with the effects of the drug showed less persistence in trying to get a new dose than ordinary mice in the same situation.
26.05.2008
Biotechnologies - into life
Problems of domestic pharmaceuticals and possible solutions
The pharmaceutical industry in the modern economy is a kind of litmus test showing the level of its innovative development. We are talking with Andrey Ivashchenko, the project manager of the ChemRar Central Research Center, about what problems there are in the domestic pharmaceutical industry and about possible ways to solve them.
26.05.2008
Genetic engineering
Will Jurassic Park become a reality?
If we take into account that today the closest relatives of dinosaurs are birds, then we can say not only that "Jurassic Park" is far from reality, but also about the error of the screenwriters – because there little lizards hatched from crocodile eggs.
26.05.2008
Nanotechnology
Nanobiotechnology: a systematic approach to living
Professor Vadim Govorun, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the State Research Institute of Physico-Chemical Medicine of Roszdrav, tells about what is happening in the rapidly developing field of nanobiotechnology.
26.05.2008
Grants and competitions
Young. Audacious. Promising
The Committee on Science and Higher Education of the Government of St. Petersburg announces the acceptance of applications for participation in the XI Contest of business ideas, scientific and technical developments and research projects among students, graduate students and young managers under the motto "Young. Audacious. Promising."
26.05.2008
Other life sciences
Molecular genetic evolution of man
To understand how genes changed in evolution and these changes “made a person”, first consider a simpler question: how genes “make a person” in individual development.
23.05.2008
Innovative Russia
There are enough innovative developments in Russia
The fund being created is ready not only to provide financing, but also to provide innovators with access to all key resources – managerial, legal, informational.
23.05.2008
Your health
Genes for impotence
Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine presented the results of the first stage of clinical trials of a fundamentally new method of treating erectile dysfunction using gene therapy.
23.05.2008
Your health
Erectile dysfunction? Check the heart!
Usually, signs of erectile dysfunction appear more than three years before the first symptoms of heart disease appear. In one study involving men with type 2 diabetes, the symptoms of erectile dysfunction in all cases preceded the symptoms of coronary heart disease.
23.05.2008
Healthy skepticism
A kilogram of meat for a million dollars: activists get a discount!
This time, instead of organizing another nudist show, Peta's management announced a million-dollar prize for a group of scientists or a company that by June 30, 2012 will develop a method for making chicken meat "in vitro".
23.05.2008
Bioethics
"Black transplantologist" from Nizhnevartovsk: maybe the prosecutor's office still messed up?
Horror stories about "black transplantologists" appear regularly in the media, but are rarely confirmed. In this case, doubt about the validity of suspicions is also caused by the fact that corpses arrive to forensic experts at best a day after death, when there can be no question of any transplant.
22.05.2008
Healthy skepticism
Evidence-based medicine as a means of promoting medicines
The requirements for the content of advertising publications began to change back in the 80s, taking into account the movement of evidence-based medicine. Not the least role was played by consumer lawsuits against manufacturers of medicines.
22.05.2008
Genetic engineering
A supercomputer in a Petri dish
Scientists from the University of Missouri and Davidson College in the USA, led by Carmella Haynes, demonstrated the fundamental possibility of organizing biological computing systems in vivo (in a living organism).
21.05.2008
Healthy skepticism
Nitric acid and tobacco smoke vaccine kills tuberculosis virus
Thanks to the study, it became clear that a mixture of carbon monoxide, nitric acid and oxygen can be used for further development of tuberculosis vaccines... Inaccuracy and inattention of journalists to facts is a fairly common thing.
21.05.2008
Bioethics
The British Parliament has again allowed the creation of hybrid embryos
The law permits the production of true hybrids, chimeras (combinations of human and animal cells), and transgenic human embryos with the addition of a small fraction of animal DNA.
21.05.2008
Other life sciences
DNA-based logic gates
American researchers have constructed logic elements AND, OR and XOR. DNA fragments about 24 nucleotides long are used as input for these elements; oligonucleotides are also used as output.
21.05.2008
Nanotechnology
Nanomedicine of the Future: transdermal delivery using nanoparticles
The use of nanoparticles in medicine will not only effectively deliver biologically active molecules through various barriers of the body (skin, blood-brain), but also significantly change the nature of the drug's action.
20.05.2008