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A superfood for weight loss?

In an experiment on rats, a peptide hormone recently discovered in the centers of the brain that control appetite turned out to be significantly more effective than existing weight loss drugs.

15.06.2009
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Alternative medicine: 2.5 billion in the wind

The National Center for Alternative Medicine, established in the United States, has spent two and a half billion dollars on many studies that have confirmed the failure of treatment using various alternative means and methods. Despite this, supporters of these treatments continue to receive grants for their study and development.

11.06.2009
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Nanobioinfocognotechnologists will be taught in the Chicken Coop

The acceptance of documents for the world's first university course for the training of nanotechnologists begins in Moscow. This was announced today at a press conference in ITAR-TASS by the director of the Russian Scientific Center "Kurchatov Institute" and dean of the world's first "nanobioinfokognofakultet" (NBIK) Mikhail Kovalchuk.

11.06.2009
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Will we collect a billion in small change for children with cancer?

The campaign "Billion in small change" provides for the collection of 1 billion rubles in the form of voluntary donations for the treatment of children with cancer. The cost of one SMS within the framework of the charity event is 20 rubles. Money (minus mandatory VAT): will be used in full for the stated purposes.

11.06.2009
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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.

11.06.2009
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Live Artificial Heart Valves

An artificial heart valve, if it is implanted in a child, is bad, in particular, because its size does not change as the patient grows. In the laboratory of Biotechnology and Artificial Organs of the Hanover Medical School, the operation to transplant a biotechnological heart valve to children of different ages was performed sixteen times.

10.06.2009
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Russian-Israeli Nanotechnology Foundation

Leonid Melamed, CEO of Rusnano, said that Israel's advantage is a significant advance in nanotechnology, an orientation towards international cooperation and a significant number of Russian–speaking scientists – representatives of the Soviet scientific school. The Russian side offers "uniquely favorable conditions" to foreign innovators.

09.06.2009
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The artificial heart is working!

The grown hearts were transplanted into the abdominal cavity of stem cell donor rats. The organs took root, and, as expected, did not cause a rejection reaction. Now it is necessary to check whether the resulting heart muscle is capable of providing sufficient blood circulation throughout the body.

08.06.2009
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We have the honor to introduce ourselves: portal "Nanotechnologies and nanomaterials"

The new "nanoportal", created within the framework of the federal program for the development of nanoindustry infrastructure in Russia for 2008-2010, "will contribute to solving educational and scientific problems in the field of nanoindustry, will accelerate the solution of engineering and production tasks, as well as accelerate the commercialization of research and development

04.06.2009
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Cord Blood Gemabank

Gemabank considers Ukraine a promising direction and, in addition to providing cord blood storage services, is going to actively cooperate with leading Ukrainian transplantologists to improve the quality of transplants.

04.06.2009
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Innovation is a terrible force!

At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the head of RUSNANO Corporation Anatoly Chubais will take part in an interactive session "The Power of Innovation: when will tomorrow come?".

04.06.2009
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Innovative biotechnologies of Asiopa

Scientists from Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan will take part in the implementation of the interstate target program of the Eurasian Economic Community "Innovative Biotechnologies".

03.06.2009
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Again induced pluripotent stem cells – this time pork

For the first time, Dr. Lei Xiao and the team of the laboratory of the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, which he directs, managed to obtain "artificial" pig stem cells. As in the case of induced pluripotent human stem cells, pig tissue cells pass into an undifferentiated state under the influence of certain proteins.

03.06.2009