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How can a pensioner save on rent?

The pensioner plans to build himself a residence with three bedrooms and a living room. To date, the area of its additional apartments is 50 sq.m.

06.09.2010
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The state saves on the elderly

According to the official wording, the abolition of the 75% discount on the purchase of tobacco for the elderly is "part of the steps aimed at the complete elimination of subsidies." The president did not report anything about the health benefits.

27.08.2010
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Check the prostate, brother!

Doctors, exaggerating the role of heredity in the development of prostate cancer, recommend that the brothers of sick men check the condition of the prostate gland and more often detect the disease in the early stages.

25.08.2010
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Let's teach you how to nano!

Rusnano is going to create a network of schools whose main specialization will be nanotechnology. The state corporation plans to spend almost 28 million rubles for these purposes.

25.08.2010
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Almost immortal clones

The aspen-shaped poplar lives for about two hundred years, but the clones growing from its roots (in fact, the same tree) are almost immortal. One such "tree" has been living for either 80 or 800 thousand years.

23.08.2010
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Buy our new, useless and even harmful medicines!

Pharmaceutical corporations advertise new drugs, which often have not passed a sufficient number of clinical trials. 85% of new drugs are ineffective, but they can cause serious harm to health.

23.08.2010
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Alzheimer's Aria

The premiere of the opera about Alzheimer's disease, written by the composer of Russian origin Elena Langer, took place in London.

23.07.2010
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And they caught cancer…

Experts will assign several roles to cleverly designed nanoparticles at once – a tool for diagnosing cancer at an early stage, a means of spot drug delivery or traps for cancer cells.

22.07.2010
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Vaccination: a patch is better than an injection

The immune system of animals vaccinated with a patch neutralized viruses faster than in mice who received the vaccine by injection. The patch has other advantages compared to a syringe…

19.07.2010
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Insulin against Alzheimer's?

It is possible to improve the memory of Alzheimer's sufferers in the early stages if you inject insulin into their nose. Patients treated in this way for four months showed improved results in memory tests.

19.07.2010
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Advanced Mongolian nanotechnology

Nanotechnology was named among the most promising areas of cooperation with Russian scientific centers at the Convention of the Mongols of the World.

16.07.2010
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RUSNANO and RAS: we sow reasonable, kind, venture...

The Technology Transfer Center is established in the form of a non-profit partnership between RUSNANO and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Projects created as a result of the center's activities will be directed to seed and venture investment funds.

16.07.2010
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Vaccines “cool before drinking”

By changing the genome of bacteria, the authors of the study increased their thermal sensitivity. The presence of microbes in the skin of rodents provided a protective response of the immune system. However, penetrating into the internal organs, the bacteria died.

14.07.2010
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500,000 depositors of Biobank

The Biobank of Great Britain has achieved the goal of its creation: half a million volunteers underwent a medical examination, answered questions about their health and lifestyle, and also donated samples of their DNA.

12.07.2010
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First blood from the bioreactor

Blood for transfusion is obtained in a bioreactor from hematopoietic cells isolated from umbilical cord blood. The practical application of the novelty is expected no earlier than 2013.

12.07.2010
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Let's sing our genome!

On July 13, the New London Chamber Choir will perform the musical work "Allele" in the building of the Royal Medical Society, in which excerpts from the genomes of each of the 40 singers will be performed.

12.07.2010