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.
25.03.2015Russian 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.
25.03.2015Operatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation are investigating a criminal case of fraud with the production and sale of the drug "Stemamine" in Russia, allegedly containing stem cells.
24.06.2008The State Duma has passed a law according to which up to 12 years in prison are threatened for the sale of counterfeit medicines. If the bill is approved by the Federation Council and signed by the President, it will enter into force on January 23, 2015.
23.12.2014Prenatal screening studies, which are used to detect chromosomal abnormalities in the fetus, reveal no more than half of such anomalies. At the same time, these studies are associated with an increased risk of miscarriage and infant mortality.
03.06.2008In Russia, there are 463 HIV-infected people for every 100,000 population. Today, less than a third of HIV-infected Russians receive antiretroviral therapy.
13.05.2014According to one of the victims' lawyers, the sperm samples of his clients became unusable as a result of the breakdown of the container in which they were stored.
23.08.2013Abdominal obesity – a "beer belly", or an apple–shaped figure - is associated with an increased risk of diabetes and premature death. A "pear-shaped" figure reduces this risk.
07.05.2008The new building of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the SB RAS will house a Center for collective Use of Cellular Technologies operating under the program "Proteomics. Genomics. Bioinformatics".
07.02.2013Synthetic mesh implants used in the treatment of hernias have a number of disadvantages associated with insufficient biocompatibility. The ultra-thin titanium mesh developed by the Yekaterinburg NPF Temp will reduce the number of complications.
25.01.2013More than two thousand delegates, more than 300 speakers from almost all leading scientific centers of the world, including 11 Nobel laureates, will come to St. Petersburg for the upcoming 38th annual Congress of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS).
21.01.2013The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this year will be awarded to John Gardon and Shinya Yamanaka for their work in the field of developmental biology and the production of induced stem cells.
08.10.2012The budget proposed by the President provides for the allocation of a billion dollars for the creation of a network of national institutes for innovation in industry.
11.03.2012The Severny biopharmaceutical cluster, being created in the Moscow region, will become the basis for the creation of at least 100 small innovative companies that will be able to produce at least 300 import-substituting medicines.
20.02.2012Genetically 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.
14.07.2010When the patient swallows the capsule, a signal is received on the doctor's phone or laptop. The development will avoid many situations when patients forget or intentionally refuse to take medications.
02.04.2010Drugs for the treatment of allergies and gastrointestinal diseases are able to bind to tau protein, which allows them to be used as radioactive tags for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using MRI.
02.02.2010The PG9 and PG16 antibodies bind to one of the most stable structures of the immunodeficiency virus envelope, gp120 glycoprotein, and neutralize more than 75% of HIV strains.
04.09.2009Five cups of coffee a day can eliminate memory problems in patients with Alzheimer's disease.
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