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VI All-Russian Congress "Symbiosis-Russia"

About 300 people will take part in the VI All-Russian Congress of Young Biologists "Symbiosis-Russia", which will be held in Irkutsk for the first time from August 19 to 23, online.

GM potatoes will be grown on the outskirts of the capital

The first domestic genetically modified potatoes are planned to be planted in the capital in mid-May.

Pensioners are ruining Japan

The aging of society is becoming not only a social, but also an economic problem for Japan: the existing pension system was designed for a ratio of "11 employees – one pensioner". Now this ratio is 3:1.

Biotechnology-2020

The government has approved a program for the development of biotechnologies of the Russian Federation until 2020.

IMF warns: prolonging life is a risky business

Currently, it makes sense to pay more attention to the risk of longevity due to the scale of its financial consequences and the fact that effective measures to minimize them will give results only in a few years.

An ambassador for innovation!

Special attaches for innovation will soon appear in Russian embassies abroad. By 2012, the Russian Foreign Ministry (!) will create a network to attract foreign scientists and technologies, as well as promote Russian innovations in foreign markets.

The selection of projects for the creation of nanocenters has been completed

The RUSNANO Competition Commission named the winners of the last, fourth, open competition for the selection of projects for the creation of nanotechnology centers.

Premature birth negatively affects the health of both the child and the entire population

The first day of the IV International Innovation Forum

Innovative strategies for the development of cities and regions, training for the new economy of the country, as well as cluster policy will be the main topics of the IV International Innovation Forum, which opened today in St. Petersburg.

$30,000,000 for personalized medicine in cancer treatment

Representatives of the J. Hopkins and S. Kimmel Cancer Center announced the opening of a new Center for Personalized Medicine, which will develop cancer treatment methods.

Ecstasy vaccination

The Tooth Fairy's Castle

A British artist asks children to give her fallen baby teeth to create a monument to stem cells.

Nanotechnology has broken into the future for the fifth time

On March 26, a solemn ceremony of awarding the winners and prize-winners of the fifth All–Russian Intellectual Forum-Olympiad "Nanotechnology - a breakthrough into the Future" took place in the assembly hall of the First Academic Building of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Russian innovators rent an office in Silicon Valley

Skolkovo, Rusnano and RVC will open their office in the USA in the spring.

Sanofi still swallowed Genzyme

Representatives of Sanofi-aventis predict that due to the takeover of Genzyme by 2013, the company's net profit per share will increase by 0.75-1.003 euros.

Four Dolly slices

Three and a half years ago in the UK, as a result of cloning, four copies of the famous Dolly sheep were born.

If prostate cancer does not give up, it is destroyed by blocking the Stat5 gene

Homozygous mutants of the second generation lived ten times longer than ordinary C.elegans, but they were sterile. Maybe it is possible to somehow compensate for the infertility associated with the age-1 gene and leave only a long life? A number of data points to the fact that it is impossible – at least in one action.

Development of a new method for the diagnosis of blood clotting disorders

The project provides for the creation of unique diagnostic devices that can detect disorders of the blood coagulation system.

The Complete electronic Encyclopedia of Life

The new gene map will not only help scientists better understand the biology and genetics of corn, but will also accelerate the development of new varieties of this important food grain. Now researchers will have to carefully analyze the collected information and draw a lot of conclusions, both purely cognitive and practical.

VEB will finance the construction of a pharmaceutical plant

The Bank participates in the financing of a project in the pharmaceutical industry. Medical equipment and pharmaceuticals were included in the list of industry priorities of the Bank's investment activities at the end of 2009.