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I'm going to my homeland…

Six new biotechnological laboratories will be opened at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University by the end of the year. They will be headed by Russians who have long gone abroad, and now have decided to work at home.

There has never been such a thing in transplantology

Japanese doctors removed the lower lobe of the mother's left lung and, having "constructed" smaller left and right lungs from this tissue, performed an operation to transplant a new organ to a two-year-old child.

A Russian-made robot surgeon?

Russia will create a domestic robot for surgery, the development of which will take four years.

Nano-castling

The Board of Directors of Rusnano will consider the issue of transferring the powers of the Chairman of the Management Board of Rusnano to the Rusnano Management Company, in which Anatoly Chubais will take the post of Chairman of the Management Board.

Micro - Principality of Centenarians

The Principality of Monaco topped the ranking of countries with the highest life expectancy. Japan took the second place in the 2014 ranking.

Sales of antitumor drugs are 2 times ahead of the overall growth of the global pharmaceutical market

The increase in the volume of sales of antitumor drugs will be provided by drugs introduced to the market over the past decade, aimed at certain targets, as well as a longer period of treatment of an increasing number of patients.

Pharmaceutical manufacturers of all countries, unite!

Pharmaceutical and biotech companies, outsourcing research organizations, research centers, investors involved in the development of medicines are interested in a partnership based on the sharing of information.

Fight against tumor angiogenesis: not by washing, but by rolling!

Pig cell transplantation helped diabetics

Don't the nanos smell? And how do they affect nature?

In 2003, neurophysiologists from the Allen Institute have already presented to the world a three-dimensional genetic atlas of the mouse brain. There are not many more genes in the human brain than in the mouse, but the human brain itself is 2000 times larger than the mouse brain. Therefore, scanning the activity of genes in all its areas is an incredibly ambitious task.

Doctors' strike against pension reform?

If doctors vote for a strike, they will not provide services that can be postponed without harm to health. The result of the vote will be known by the end of May.

Nanocapsules for biologically active substances

The project is based on the technology of the German company AQUANOVA, which allows to enclose active organic substances in nanocapsules with a diameter of about 30 nanometers.

Genome sequencing: the speed is increasing

The developers of the new sequencing method claim that by 2013 they will be able to decode the human genome in 15 minutes (now this process takes about a month).

A new target of anti–cancer therapy is tumor stroma

rotative-tumor factor.

Placenta is the cradle of hematopoietic stem cells

90 million for our scientists

Fellow scientists! Tell me, how many laboratories (for example, in one of life sciences) can be equipped from scratch for three million US dollars and provide consumables and pay employees for three years?

Homeopathic infanticide got a term

An Australian court has sentenced the couple who treated their daughter with homeopathic remedies to prison.

All for the fight against Alzheimer's!

The main theme of the World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics is the fight against Alzheimer's disease.

Iron Napkin

The process in which water, despite the "forces of gravity, rises on a piece of metal, is very similar to what happens when we collect tea spilled on the table with a napkin. This is a manifestation of the capillary effect associated with wetting, the interaction of liquid and solid molecules.

WHO encourages the treatment of AIDS and tuberculosis with homeopathy

Representatives of the World Health Organization declined to comment on a letter from the international community of young doctors and scientists calling on WHO to publicly condemn the use of homeopathic remedies for the treatment of AIDS, malaria and other serious diseases.