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Twenty billion for stem cells

More than 100 employees of the scientific institute of the Takeda Pharmaceutical Company will take part in the projects that will be devoted to the search for medicines for severe diseases of the heart, kidneys and other organs.

20.04.2015
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Kaminsky continues to be promoted

Dmitry Kaminsky, senior partner of the Hong Kong venture fund Deep Knowledge Ventures, promised to pay $ 1 million to a person who will break the record for life expectancy and live longer than 123 years.

14.04.2015
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A female camel cloned 6 years ago is pregnant

A female camel named Injaz (translated from Arabic as "achievement") was cloned from the eggs of a dead relative and was born from a surrogate mother six years ago. Now she is waiting for offspring herself.

13.04.2015
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Gene therapy will help with deafness

Scientists from the Japanese Juntendo University with the help of gene therapy were able to partially restore the hearing of a mouse with congenital deafness.

08.04.2015
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Underfunding is not a hindrance to science

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said that "even with less funding, it is necessary to strive to achieve the indicators set out in the presidential decrees on the development of science."

06.04.2015
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The "centenarian" girl died at the age of 17

A teenage girl with Hutchinson-Guilford syndrome, which provokes premature aging of the body, died in the UK at the age of 17, while her body was the same as that of a 104-year-old man.

06.04.2015
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Nanotechnology according to GOST

Starting from January 1, 2016, a number of interstate standards for nanotechnology will become effective for voluntary use in the Russian Federation.

01.04.2015
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Men have overtaken women in the issue of healthy old age

The state of health of modern men has improved so much today that it is the representatives of the stronger sex who can expect to live most of their lives in the absence of serious illnesses. Previously, the chances of this were higher for women.

30.03.2015
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The revolutionary situation in Russian biotechnology

On March 17-20, 2015, the VIII Moscow International Congress "Biotechnology: State and Prospects of Development" was held in Moscow with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.

26.03.2015
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Awards for Women in Science

This year, the Grand Prix L'Oreal-UNESCO "For Women in Science" was awarded to Carol Robinson, a British chemist from Oxford for research in the field of membrane proteins.

25.03.2015
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Honorary American Scientists

Russian and American scientists – Igor Efimov and Alexander Kabanov – have been elected honorary members of the American Institute of Biomedical Engineering, part of the US National Academy of Sciences.

25.03.2015
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Pharma's cool 2015 program has started

Pharma's cool program presents a series of lectures by more than 30 leading scientists and experts in the field of pharmacy and biomedicine.

24.03.2015
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The anti-vaccination worker lost the bet

German Stefan Lanka, an opponent of vaccinations, was sentenced by a court to pay €100,000 to a doctor who provided him with evidence of the existence of the measles virus. Lanka intends to appeal the decision and threatens the opponent with legal costs exceeding the amount awarded.

17.03.2015
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Take in kind

According to the terms of the settlement agreement, instead of the 44.4 million rubles declared in the lawsuit, the Expert Media Holding will provide the claim as compensation for reputational damage and compensation for losses incurred advertising space in the Expert magazine.

17.03.2015
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Mammoth Genome Researchers Keep Hitting the Wall

The Center for Collective Use "Molecular Paleontology" will be the first and only place in Russia where research will be conducted on the latest equipment using unique technologies to search for living mammoth cells and study the DNA of ancient animals.

16.03.2015