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The most common causes of death

The World Health Organization reports that in 2011, two-thirds of all deaths in the world were caused by non-communicable diseases.

Measure your waist and blood pressure!

In the capital, an action called "Are you at risk? Measure your waist and blood pressure" will be held in business centers, large supermarkets, pharmacies and other public places.

Thanks to viruses for oxygen!

Every third newborn will celebrate the centennial anniversary

According to the Office for National Statistics of Great Britain, of the children born this year, a third will live to the 100th anniversary.

Who is the last one behind RUSNANO shares?

Chubais considers the sale of a small stake in Rusnano as the first stage on the way to the privatization of a package of 30-40 percent.

The pharmaceutical cluster is not rubber!

The official did not name the specific number of pharmaceutical cluster companies that are planned to be developed in St. Petersburg, but stressed that in any case their number will be finite.

Biomedicine in Skolkovo

The Skolkovo Foundation will invest up to 2 billion rubles in six biomedicine projects.

The corn genome has been decoded

The cosmetics industry, free from prejudices related to the correctness of the use of scientific terms, has long been juggling words such as "DNA", "genes", "signaling molecules", "genetic code" and others.

The City of old men

If the experiment is successful, such projects will be implemented in other areas of rapidly aging Japan to make its infrastructure friendlier for the elderly.

Why women are more prone to depression than men

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Russian nanotechnologists are waiting for British investments

A British-Russian venture forum on attracting investments in Russian nanotechnology is being held in London.

Do you want to become a co-investor of Rusnano?

Rusnano's approach makes it possible to make infrastructure projects cost–effective, therefore attractive to co-investors.

While the fat dries...

Good news for fat people: people who are overweight at the age of 40 live on average longer than their slimmer fellow citizens.

We have the honor to introduce ourselves: portal "Nanotechnologies and nanomaterials"

The new "nanoportal", created within the framework of the federal program for the development of nanoindustry infrastructure in Russia for 2008-2010, "will contribute to solving educational and scientific problems in the field of nanoindustry, will accelerate the solution of engineering and production tasks, as well as accelerate the commercialization of research and development

Bacteria were put on the counter

According to the researchers, the counter can be associated with any external events, the influence of which the bacterium is able to feel (for example, it regularly reacts to the presence of certain toxins), as well as with changes in the internal state of the microorganism. The bacterium can be forced to "self-destruct" after the completion of a certain number of cell divisions or after a given time.

Diabetes medicine in the fight against multiple sclerosis

The drug, which is commonly used in the treatment of diabetes, protects neurons in multiple sclerosis.

Growing artificial organs: sheep instead of bioreactors

Scientist Yutaka Hanazono shows a journalist a sheep involved in the experiment. There is a small trace of the operation on her belly, and behind it is a "spare" pancreas grown on the basis of chimpanzee stem cells.

Rusnano will save, but invest

After the reduction of funding, the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation (Rusnano) should spend 45 billion rubles on activities and implementation of projects in 2009 instead of the 130 billion previously planned.

Wheelchair – telepath

Electrodes located on a special cap connected to the chair read the electrical activity of brain neurons and, thanks to the developed device and processor, translate these impulses into commands for a wheelchair.

A Step towards Cystic fibrosis gene Therapy

Moscow scientists have developed and successfully tested the first Russian gene therapy for cystic fibrosis on cell cultures.