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Returnees: Boris Zhivotovsky, researcher of apoptosis

I plan to divide the research into two parts. The first is a fundamental study of the mechanisms of cell death by the type of apoptosis and autophagy. The second is the use of the acquired knowledge to fight diseases, in particular cancer.

Russian science will buy brains. Expensive.

The megagrant competition was immediately called unique for Russian science. After all, the amount of grants turned out to be attractive not only for domestic scientists, but also for the best specialists in the world.

"You deserve it"-2010

An award ceremony was held for 10 scientists-winners of the national scholarship competition "For Women in Science" L'Oreal-Unesco.

Whose side are the scientific journalists on?

Recently, a discussion was held at the Royal Institute of Great Britain on "Should scientific journalists take sides"? Ed Yong, author of a popular science blog, believes that objectivity in journalism is a myth.

Passions for retirement age

Why do officials tell horror stories about the lack of money in the pension system? One of the goals of the wailing of the state bureaucracy is obvious: raising the retirement age. But is it really necessary and justified?

How to save on pensioners

Nowadays, the concept of retirement age at 60 or 65 is becoming irrelevant. In the future, more and more elderly people will want to work longer or start professional retraining after the age of 60.

Pulp fiction, in Nature

In September, the world leader of scientific periodicals, the journal Nature, published an article about the identification of the fact of deliberate sabotage in a small American scientific laboratory.

Palladium Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 2010 for the development of palladium catalysis techniques that allow for the precise "stitching" of carbon atoms and the sitesing of substances approaching in their structure and properties to natural molecules.

Russian healthcare: diagnosis and prognosis

Medicine in Russia has five years left to live. Then a catastrophe will inevitably happen in our country, because the country cannot exist without medicine.

Advertising dietary supplements: prove that you are not lying!

According to EU legislation, in the advertising of dietary supplements, only those statements concerning the health of people who have passed an expert examination for authenticity and are officially authorized by the authorized body can be used.

How to protect consumers from advertising pseudo-medicines?

To improve consumer protection from unfair advertising of medicines, it is necessary to make appropriate changes not to the Law "On Advertising", but to the Law "On Consumer Protection".

Do you want to study bioinformatics?

Bioinformatics courses at SPbAU are open to free listeners, are free of charge and are mainly aimed at senior students of mathematical and technical specialties interested in bioinformatics.

Japanese Longevity: Skeletons in closets

Despite her daughter's protests, the administration representatives opened the door of Kato's room and found his mummified body. During the time when relatives said that Kato was alive, the state paid him a pension totaling almost 10 million yen.

Only old people live here

The village of Fairhall is Britain's first residential complex for the elderly. Now the Scottish government is considering a plan to build a whole network of such villages where elderly people could live a full life in nature in peace and comfort.

Demographic crisis in Russia: a look from across the ocean

The authoritative American demographer and political economist Nicholas Eberstadt presented the report "The Russian demographic crisis of peacetime: dimensions, causes, consequences" at the Washington Hudson Institute.

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