Billions for science
The US National Science Foundation has published data on the funds for scientific research that American universities and colleges received in 2007.
19.03.2009The US National Science Foundation has published data on the funds for scientific research that American universities and colleges received in 2007.
19.03.2009Anesthesiologist Scott Reuben is accused of fabricating the results of at least 21 clinical trials of painkillers over the past 12 years.
18.03.2009Now, according to the programmer, several programs are stored on his thumb drive, in particular, Billix, CouchDBX and Ajatus. Yavala plans to improve the prosthesis by making the fingertip removable and installing an RFID tag in it.
18.03.2009Talking about his second brainchild, the Eternal Youth Foundation, Andrei Fomenko complains that his ideas for investing money in biotechnology, which would allow a person to live longer, have not yet found mass support among other oligarchs.
18.03.2009One of the Corporation's priorities for 2009 is the formation of a pool of Russian and foreign investors interested in joining RUSNANO projects, as well as in acquiring a share of the Corporation after its exit from the project.
18.03.2009By 2012, 10,000 stem cell samples should be harvested. Such a bank, according to doctors, will greatly simplify the treatment of hematological diseases – for example, leukemia.
17.03.2009The Jubilee Fifth Moscow International Congress "Biotechnology: state and Prospects of Development" and the Seventh International Specialized Exhibition "World of Biotechnology 2009" began their work on March 16 this year.
17.03.2009Respondents over the age of 27 showed a significant decrease in results in tests for logic, quick thinking and spatial imagination. Scientists have recorded memory deterioration in study participants over 37 years old; other intellectual functions begin to decline after 42 years.
17.03.2009Every fifth small biotech company in Europe may be on the verge of bankruptcy in 2009 due to the termination of financing amid the global credit crisis.
17.03.2009To the list of factors most associated with a person's longevity, another one was unexpectedly added, which was not particularly thought about before – the speed of a person's reaction to events happening around him.
16.03.2009The first meeting of the interdepartmental working group on the development of the production of genetically engineered drugs and other high-tech medicines was held in the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia.
16.03.2009Google creator Sergey Brin is personally interested in this: he inherited from his mother the G2019S mutation in the LRRK2 gene, which significantly increases the risk of developing Parkinson's disease.
13.03.2009Experiments on mice have shown that when such particles are introduced into the animal's body, they are captured exclusively by cancer cells, without causing any harm to healthy ones. After entering the cell, the genes "force" it to produce proteins that gradually kill tumor cells.
12.03.2009Researchers from the University named after Erasmus of Rotterdam found out that the color of human eyes (blue or brown) can be predicted by analyzing six different sections of the genome. At the same time, the prediction accuracy exceeds 90%.
12.03.2009Survey of users' opinions on the structure, content and external design of the Internet portal of the GC "Rosnanotech".
12.03.2009This discovery explains how stress reduces telomerase levels and thereby accelerates cell aging by increasing cortisol production.
11.03.2009The combination of antibiotics with therapy with bacteriophage viruses, which do not kill, but only weaken pathogenic bacteria, can significantly alleviate the fate of many patients in the future.
10.03.2009While Barack Obama was signing the bill, representatives of a number of public and religious organizations gathered in front of the fence of the White House, which categorically do not accept experiments with human embryos.
10.03.2009There have already been 18 surgeries in the world to install the Argus II bionic eye, developed by the American company Second Sight for patients who have become blind as a result of retinal diseases.
05.03.2009The Sonodrugs project, designed for 4 years, combines several complex projects. This includes the main scientific developments concerning the development of a new type of particles of the required size, the required structure, the required physical behavior and biocompatibility, a set of works on laboratory tests of derived particles and a set of works on the evaluation of biological distribution in vivo and the effectiveness of drug delivery technology.
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