News

Found results: 3406

News

A new genetically determined deadly disease

Gerontologists decided to equate aging with disease and include it in the new edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which is being released by WHO in 2018.

11.11.2015
News

Milner Award – 2015

The ceremony of awarding the largest (in monetary terms) scientific Breakthrough Prize was held in California.

09.11.2015
News

The "golden bullet" against the flu?

Shionogi & Co has completed the first phase of testing the drug, in which it was tested for harmlessness. In November, when the peak of the flu epidemic is expected, the 2nd phase of clinical trials will begin - testing its effectiveness.

02.11.2015
News

The opener of STAP cells is not left alone

Waseda University checked Haruka Obokata's thesis on stem cells and also revealed a number of questionable evidence. Obokata was asked to redo the work within a year, but she was unable to do so.

30.10.2015
News

Cancel aging

Is aging inevitable? Do we need immortality? How long can technological progress continue? Aubrey de Grey will answer these questions in a lecture (October 30, Friday, 19:00, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Ostozhenka str., 16).

28.10.2015
News

Hot dogs with human flesh?

Human DNA was found in 2% of the analyzed samples, and most often it was found in vegetarian sausages.

26.10.2015
News

Police Demand Confidential information from databases

The increased interest of the state in the personal data of citizens has prompted many companies to publish so–called "transparency reports" - statistics of appeals from law enforcement agencies with demands to disclose certain user data.

23.10.2015
News

Molecular diversity of life

On November 16, Konstantin Severinov, Doctor of Biological Sciences, a well-known specialist in the field of molecular biology, will give a lecture at the Central House of the Journalist. The topic of the lecture is "The molecular diversity of life".

22.10.2015
News

New antibiotics are urgently needed

Professor Laura Piddock expressed the hope that the article in the Lancet will become a "loud alarm bell for pharmaceutical companies" to develop antibiotics to which bacteria do not yet have resistance.

20.10.2015
News

Another typical Yakut hereditary disease

The head of the laboratory "Genomic Medicine" of the clinic of the NEFU Medical Institute, Nadezhda Maksimova, informed the Ogonek magazine about the discovery of a new genetic disease in Yakutia.

19.10.2015
News

Why do you need this hemorrhoid?

NovaMedica Pharmaceutical Company has received permission from the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation to conduct a phase I clinical trial of a unique development – a gel for the treatment and relief of hemorrhoids symptoms.

14.10.2015
News

Death Quality Rating

The first three places were taken by the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. They are followed by Ireland, Belgium, Taiwan and Germany. The USA and France complete the top ten. Iraq took the last place.

07.10.2015
News

Nobel Prize in Chemistry given for "DNA repair"

This year's laureates were Thomas Lindahl, a Swede, Paul Modrich, a US citizen, and Aziz Sankar, an American of Turkish origin, "for the study of DNA repair mechanisms."

07.10.2015
News

Russian HIV vaccine: no comments

V.Skvortsova: "The vaccine is at the stage of clinical trials, all without much change. This is not such a simple matter, I am not ready to tell you any nuances right now. We have four institutes making alternative vaccines."

05.10.2015
News

OpenBio takes place in Novosibirsk

Representatives of high-tech business, young scientists, representatives of development institutes, innovation support infrastructure organizations, students of specialized universities gathered in the biotechnopark.

02.10.2015
News

Serial killer found by DNA

Under the weight of the presented evidence and competently conducted investigative actions and operational measures, the suspect confessed, including to committing two more murders of women.

30.09.2015