News

Found results: 3424

News

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
News

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
News

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
News

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
News

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
News

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
News

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
News

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
News

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
News

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
News

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
News

WHO encourages the treatment of AIDS and tuberculosis with homeopathy

Representatives of the World Health Organization declined to comment on a letter from the international community of young doctors and scientists calling on WHO to publicly condemn the use of homeopathic remedies for the treatment of AIDS, malaria and other serious diseases.

03.06.2009
News

Winners of the MS4Doctors competition

The best 10 projects selected by the jury will be sent by Microsoft on a special CD to the chief physicians and IT specialists of six thousand medical institutions of the Russian Federation.

02.06.2009
News

Personalized Lymphoma Vaccine

Usually, follicular lymphoma can be suppressed with chemotherapy, but after a year, relapses are characteristic of this type of cancer. Patients who received an immunostimulator and a foreign protein with their own marker lived without relapses for 44 months. This is a very significant achievement, since previously with follicular lymphoma it was not possible to increase either the duration of the relapse-free period or the survival rate.

01.06.2009
News

Bacteria were put on the counter

According to the researchers, the counter can be associated with any external events, the influence of which the bacterium is able to feel (for example, it regularly reacts to the presence of certain toxins), as well as with changes in the internal state of the microorganism. The bacterium can be forced to "self-destruct" after the completion of a certain number of cell divisions or after a given time.

01.06.2009