Milner Award – 2015
The ceremony of awarding the largest (in monetary terms) scientific Breakthrough Prize was held in California.
09.11.2015The ceremony of awarding the largest (in monetary terms) scientific Breakthrough Prize was held in California.
09.11.2015Of those born in 2015 37% of girls and 27% of boys will suffer from dementia in the future. The number of cases may be higher, because in their calculations, the researchers did not take into account cases of dementia starting before the age of 60.
23.09.2015On June 22, 2008, surgeon Fyodor Uglov died in St. Petersburg at the 104th year of his life. He got into the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest practicing surgeon.
24.06.2008By controlling the level of the AID enzyme, microRNA-155 regulates the fight of the immune system against microbes, while preventing the formation of very aggressive malignant diseases: leukemia and B-cell lymphomas.
16.06.2008Scientists at the University of California have developed a contrast agent for positron emission tomography, which allows in vivo monitoring of the immune response during the development of many diseases.
11.06.2008Reagents for the determination of Ebola virus RNA by polymerase chain reaction have been officially registered in Russia.
20.10.2014The cause of death of the 76-year-old Frenchman, who lived 2.5 months after Carmat artificial heart transplantation, was a short circuit in the mechanism.
18.03.2014Bill and Melinda Gates were awarded the Lasker Prize for "a historically significant change in views on the world's most serious health problems and improving the quality of life of millions of the most disadvantaged people on the planet."
11.09.2013According to Igor Agamirzyan, CEO of the Russian Venture Company, biomedicine is one of the priorities of the RVC funds.
21.11.2011VEB will finance the construction of a plant for the production of innovative biotechnological drugs "Fort" in the Ryazan region.
21.11.2011The annual EBAN Congress is a key event of the early stage venture capital market in Europe. The next congress of the European Association of Business Angels will be held in April 2012 in Russia.
14.07.2011South Korean FCB-Pharmicell became the first company in the world to receive permission to treat a heart attack using stem cells isolated from the bone marrow of patients.
07.07.2011The number of stem cell transplants in Russia does not exceed 560 per year, while only among patients with tumors of the hematopoietic system from 7-10 thousand patients need them.
16.03.2011The defendants, using a database of citizens who had previously purchased biologically active supplements, called customers' phones and assured citizens that a large monetary compensation was paid for the dietary supplements they bought.
15.07.2010Rapid absorption of food limits the production of "satiety hormones" and inhibits the feeling of satiety, which can eventually lead to overeating.
09.11.2009"Time receptors" – special groups of neurons responsible for the perception of time, discovered in the primate brain after many years of research.
02.11.2009According to the authors, this was such a confusing observation that they had to repeat the experiments several more times until they were finally convinced of the ability of telomeres to recover.
19.10.2009A fragment of the maxillary bone, which is part of the temporomandibular joint, was grown in a bioreactor from bone marrow stem cells, which were seeded onto a frame that copies the shape of the corresponding bone of the patient.
12.10.2009Three American scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in the field of research on the mechanisms of cell aging and chromosome protection using telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.
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