Award for achievements in biomedicine from billionaire IT specialists
Yuri Milner, Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin have established a $3 million prize for research in the field of biomedicine.
20.02.2013Yuri Milner, Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin have established a $3 million prize for research in the field of biomedicine.
20.02.2013The mother's nutrition before conception of the child can have a strong impact on its viability in the future.
17.04.2008K.Fokin, President of the National Association of Business Angels of Russia: "Our common task is to make sure that the volume of investments in Russian companies from Russian angel investors in 3-5 years will amount to $ 1 billion."
21.05.2012The costs of treatment with alternative medicine, paid by the patients themselves, amount to $ 43 billion per year.
26.01.2012Scientists at the University of Washington have discovered another mechanism of cellular self–destruction, characteristic of potentially dangerous cells - for example, dying under the influence of infectious agents. The authors called this mechanism of cell death pyroptosis – "death by fire".
24.03.2008The problem of orphan (rare) diseases and measures to improve medical care in this area became the main topic of a round table held by the State Duma Committee on Health Protection on Thursday, February 17.
21.02.2011Genetically modified organisms and gene therapy methods remain under patent protection. And the ban on patenting natural genes can be circumvented by adding any additional information to them.
02.11.2010By changing the genome of bacteria, the authors of the study increased their thermal sensitivity. The presence of microbes in the skin of rodents provided a protective response of the immune system. However, penetrating into the internal organs, the bacteria died.
14.07.2010...and the best producer from the farm where bullfighting bulls are raised will be cloned in a year.
26.02.2008Boring life increases the risk of premature death by 40%. A simple way of prevention: if you have an uninteresting job, find yourself an exciting hobby.
10.02.2010Scientists from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and the National Institute of Genomic Medicine (Mexico) will master these funds for three years as part of the Slim Genomic Medicine Initiative project.
21.01.2010Researchers at Decode Genetics have found mutations in five genes that exhibit opposite properties, depending on whether an active copy of this gene was obtained from the mother or father.
17.12.2009The Ministry of Health has allocated 80 free places for children with liver diseases to the clinic of the Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. But it is necessary to realize this gift of the Ministry of Health by the end of the year.
01.12.2009Animal experiments have confirmed the effectiveness of using micelles to restore the ability of axons to conduct an electrical signal to the spinal cord in paralyzed animals.
10.11.2009A miraculous rejuvenation recipe for 69-year-old Raisa K. was advised by a friend. By the arrival of the doctors, the woman was practically unconscious.
25.09.2009Of those babies who showed increased activity in the frontal cortex of the left hemisphere at 9 months, carriers of the long allele of the dopamine receptor D4 gene grew calm and obedient. However, the same long allele in combination with increased activity in the right hemisphere gave the opposite effect.
14.07.2009The drug losartan, used to lower blood pressure, blocks a gene whose expression in breast cancer is 20 times higher than normal.
02.06.2009Intramuscular injections of the VEGF gene (vascular endothelial growth factor) can relieve patients from polyneuropathy, in which the sensitivity of the legs and feet decreases, weakness appears and problems with maintaining balance arise.
04.05.2009The FDA has revoked the authorization for the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in coronavirus pneumonia.
18.06.2020It is pointless to create an innovation infrastructure that is not tied to the real sector of the economy. Its task is to ensure the transfer of technology from science to industry. If we have a knowledge-intensive industry, then it is clear what the innovative infrastructure is doing, otherwise everything hangs in the air.
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