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Renaissance creates a fund for investments in the pharmaceutical industry

Renaissance Investment Management Management Company plans to open the first mutual fund on the Russian market, which will invest shareholders' funds in the medical services market and pharmaceuticals.

Open innovations from AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca has launched a specialized portal to support innovative programs and improve interaction between the scientific community, pharmaceutical companies, non-profit organizations and the government.

Be world-wide healthy!

World Health Day 2014 is dedicated to the prevention of vector-borne diseases.

Stress during pregnancy increases the likelihood of allergies in the child

The combination of stress and exposure to allergens during pregnancy has a significant impact on the formation of the fetal immune system.

Stem cells in space

Abba Zubair, MD, from the Mayo Clinic in Florida, received a $300,000 grant to conduct an experiment on growing stem cells aboard the International Space Station.

White nanopowder: the investigation is over. The organizational withdrawals have not yet been made...

I wonder from which ivory tower a researcher at the Novosibirsk Institute collapsed when he thought of pouring the fruits of his labors in the form of white powder directly into envelopes sent to hundreds of colleagues?

Caught up and overtake!

Russian scientists have discovered what their foreign colleagues have done for a long time.

Herceptin increases the effectiveness of chemotherapy by 1.5 times

The skin of mice is sensitive to low oxygen levels and regulates the synthesis of erythropoietin, a hormone that stimulates the production of red blood cells, thus ensuring the adaptation of the body to conditions of high altitude and low oxygen content in the air.

Low Molecular Weight Heparins Against Tumors

Neutrophils differentiated in the presence of nicotine were characterized by a reduced ability to search for and destroy bacteria in comparison with the cells of the control experiment.

Test for early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases

Replenishment of the atmospheric oxygen supply is partly due to viruses infecting cyanobacteria inhabiting the world ocean.

Born in the summer? Put on your glasses!

The brain has a sweet tooth

Golden Cancer Diagnosis

The appearance of cholesterol in atherosclerotic plaques is a secondary process. The cholesterol theory of atherosclerosis is not shared by many biochemists, physiologists and gerontologists. Atherosclerosis under a variety of conditions can occur with a low cholesterol content in the blood and, conversely, may be absent in people with high cholesterol.

Ordinary cells shouldn't be too smart

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And you can't get off the oil pipe, and eat innovations

The Ministry of Economic Development has offered the government two options for the forecast of Russia's development until 2030 – innovative and energy-resource. The government will have to decide which is more important: strengthening state investments or reducing the deficit.

Targeted drug delivery: nanospheres with nanoclaps

The authors propose to cultivate embryonic stem cells with growth factors necessary to maintain cell viability, and then apply the nucleofection procedure to them.

RUSNANO and RAS: we sow reasonable, kind, venture...

The Technology Transfer Center is established in the form of a non-profit partnership between RUSNANO and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Projects created as a result of the center's activities will be directed to seed and venture investment funds.

Electronic nose for intestinal infection

OdoReader analyzes gases evaporated by patient stool samples and detects the presence of Clostridium difficile, the causative agent of a dangerous hospital infection of the gastrointestinal tract.

Two more potential HIV protease inhibitors

Compared to the nine HIV protease inhibitors already approved by the FDA, the substances found are small chemical compounds acting on two previously unknown sites of the HIV protease molecule.

Diagnosis of trisomies: congratulations to Sequenom sovramshi!

The data of Sequenom's experiments to test the methods of intrauterine diagnosis of Down syndrome and other trisomies by analyzing the mother's blood were invalidated, work on it was temporarily suspended.