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.
09.11.2015Taking as a basis the fact that white blood cells – leukocytes – perform the function of fighting infections and thus prolong human life, scientists at the University of Palermo analyzed the relationship between life expectancy and the content of leukocytes in the blood.
27.06.2008By 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.
16.06.2008Reagents for the determination of Ebola virus RNA by polymerase chain reaction have been officially registered in Russia.
20.10.2014Data processing has shown that the low activity of insulin-like growth factor-1 corresponds to a significantly higher mortality rate than the high activity of this hormone.
28.05.2008The 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.
18.03.2014Director of the Institute of Gerontology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Vladimir Shabalin: "Such sensations appear almost every month. But then it turns out that the sensation quickly "deflated". I am sure that the same thing will happen with the "death indicator"."
13.08.2013After learning that he is biologically a woman, the patient decided to remain a man and intends to take additional male hormones.
05.06.2013VEB 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 "artificial" liver developed by Chelyabinsk scientists will help many patients to wait for transplantation, and in some cases finally recover and no longer need such a complex operation.
15.02.2011Pharmaceutical 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.
23.08.2010About 40,000 Britons die every year as a result of eating fast food and other unhealthy foods.
23.06.2010It was possible to rejuvenate fibroblasts by activating the nrf2 protein, the main transcription factor regulating the cellular antioxidant response, as well as some proteasome subunits.
29.04.2010A detailed study of the AEG-1-triggered mechanisms of cell malignancy and the growth of blood vessels necessary for tumor growth and metastasis may allow the development of new methods for the treatment of oncological diseases.
24.11.2009Scientists have discovered a new system of protection against excess free radicals – true, so far only in bacteria, but this discovery will help improve the methods of human antioxidant therapy.
23.11.2009"Time receptors" – special groups of neurons responsible for the perception of time, discovered in the primate brain after many years of research.
02.11.2009In patients with Leber's amaurosis, complete blindness develops by the age of forty. Gene therapy has proved particularly effective in the treatment of children who still have enough intact retinal tissue.
26.10.2009Three 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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