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907 candidates

According to a report by the Association of Researchers and Manufacturers of Pharmaceutical Products of the USA, American pharmaceutical companies have 907 drugs and vaccines in development for the treatment of more than 100 diseases.

Coffee, estrogens and breast cancer prevention

Collective Use Centers of the First MGMU

There are 3 centers for collective use at the university: "Transfusion Medicine", "Pharmaceutical" and "Regenerative Medicine".

Biopharmaceutical cluster in Koltsovo

The government of the Novosibirsk Region intends to send to the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia an application for about 780 million rubles for the creation of an innovative biopharmaceutical cluster in the Koltsovo science city near Novosibirsk.

How do you like the work of doctors?

About 15,000 patients rated the work of doctors on a 10-point scale. The average score was 9.28 points. The maximum possible 10 points were given to their doctors by 70.1% of respondents, 0-1 points – less than 2%.

The report on the inspection of the work of the GC "Rosnanotech" is published in closed access

If you have questions about getting access to this information, you should contact the Department of Priority Areas of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia with an official request.

Buy shares of former state corporations!

Rusnano became the first state corporation to become an ordinary open joint stock company.

Breast Cancer Prevention Vaccine

In an experiment on mice, a preventive vaccine against breast cancer demonstrated a pronounced preventive effect. Human trials of the drug are scheduled to begin no later than two years from now.

With a slight movement, fibroblasts turn into elegant nerve cells

In less than a week, about 20% of fibroblasts turned into neurons capable of performing all the functions of "ordinary" ones: expressing specific proteins, generating action potential, forming synapses.

Blow into the tube... get a diagnosis!

An imperceptible, but increased content of methylamine in the exhaled air compared to the norm indicates kidney and liver diseases, ammonia can be a sign of kidney failure, a high level of acetone indicates diabetes, and the concentration of nitric oxide can be used to diagnose asthma.

Will Insig-1 help with a stroke?

A new drug that stabilizes the concentration of the Insig-1 protein in tests on animal models of stroke has significantly reduced the number of dying neurons.

Science is sinking. The President is sitting on the shore

Academicians from the Academy of Sciences gave themselves titles, many of which did not make any Discoveries in Science. And they think that the state should pay them money for titles further.

Genetically modified bacteria will deliver the medicine exactly to the target

Genetically modified bacteria, which in the presence of specific sugar turn into a drug delivery mechanism, can become a new treatment for various diseases.

The secret of young skin is in the expression of genes

Cosmetologists are beginning to use the latest advances in molecular biology, common in the pharmaceutical industry, to measure the expression of thousands of genes in the skin of different ages.

Anniversary of the "grandmother of modern neuroscience"

"I am deeply excited that I have reached the age of 100, having lived a life with joy, which, I think, few have experienced. I'm not afraid of death, it doesn't matter to me when it comes," Nobel laureate, neuroscientist, Senator for life Rita Levi–Montalcini told reporters on the eve of the anniversary.

The breast will be enlarged with the help of stem cells

Mammary glands enlarged with stem cells are more natural because their tissue has the same softness as the rest of the breast, unlike implants that are foreign bodies.

Bionic eyes: Second sight for the blind

There have already been 18 surgeries in the world to install the Argus II bionic eye, developed by the American company Second Sight for patients who have become blind as a result of retinal diseases.

Gold, Silver and Bronze

MSU, St. Petersburg State University and NSU took the first three places in the list of the best higher education institutions in Eastern Europe.

Biotech in the Chemical Farm

The Scientific and Educational Center for Molecular and Cellular Technologies has been opened on the basis of the St. Petersburg Chemical and Pharmaceutical University.

Vitamin D: children – from rickets, old people – from dementia

The elderly, in whose body there was an increased content of vitamin D, are half as susceptible to impaired thinking processes. And when it is not enough, the probability of deterioration of attention and memory is also twice as high.