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Your health

Two more reasons to take care of your health

Compliance with the four basic rules of a healthy lifestyle reduces the likelihood of memory problems by more than two times. And British scientists (TM) have calculated that an unhealthy lifestyle ages a woman's appearance by 10 years.

05.06.2013
Cellular technologies

Cellular technologies in Russia: details

A draft law regulating the use of cellular medicine in our country has been approved and will be submitted to the government in the near future.

05.06.2013
Biomedicine

Prostate Cancer Cure: An Exciting Start

There is still a lot of work to be done before the creation of a potential drug against prostate cancer, but, according to the head of the research team, "this is an exciting start."

04.06.2013
Grants and competitions

RUSNANOPRIZE-2013

According to the decision of the Board of Rusnano in 2013, the award will be awarded in the direction: "Nanomaterials and surface modification". The monetary part of the award will amount to 3 million rubles.

04.06.2013
Various

The Blavatnik Prize

Leonid Blavatnik, an American businessman of Ukrainian origin, has established a scientific award named after himself. The prize will be awarded annually to three young American scientists and will amount to $250,000.

04.06.2013
Other life sciences

Super-antibiotic of the latest generation

Fundamentally new antibiotics developed by American scientists turned out to be a hundred times more effective than existing ones. Bacteria will not develop resistance to them soon.

04.06.2013
Grants and competitions

Candidates of Sciences are invited to Strasbourg

The Human Frontier Science Program (Strasbourg, France) offers scholarship programs for postdocs in the framework of fundamental transnational and interdisciplinary research in the field of life sciences.

04.06.2013
Note to the businessman

R&D activity of the pharmaceutical market in 2012

Achievements of companies engaged in the development and research of new drugs, as well as trends in the development of the global pharmaceutical market of R&D projects and the main successes in this area in 2012.

03.06.2013
Various

Anti-cellulite educational program

Perhaps not everything you know about cellulite is true. The beach season has already begun – read a selection of the ten most common misconceptions about this cosmetic flaw.

03.06.2013
Note to the businessman

Startup Village: results of the Hypercube Conference

Along with information, "clean" and energy-saving technologies, the main topics of the Startup Village conference included biomedical innovations and projects in the field of medical informatics.

03.06.2013
Bioethics

Legalize organ trafficking?

Organ trafficking is the exploitation of the poor. In Pakistan and the Philippines, thousands of people who have sold their kidneys have a health condition close to critical.

03.06.2013
Innovative Russia

Skolkovo stretches its arms wide…

Zhores Alferov: "The Skolkovo ideology of the Technological University should spread to the whole country. The fact that it starts with Novosibirsk and St. Petersburg does not deny the participation of other universities in Russia."

03.06.2013
Genetics

Thousand Dollar Genome: Mission still impossible

According to the researchers, the industry does not yet have a technique capable of winning this competition, and the existing methods will require costs exceeding the promised prize of $ 10 million.

31.05.2013
Various

Active generation

The goal of the Active Generation contest is to support civic initiatives aimed at improving the quality of life of elderly people.

31.05.2013
Biomedicine

Flu vaccine: antiviral virus

To cope with any flu virus and protect humanity from future pandemics, researchers suggest using gene therapy. In this case, the antibody gene in the viral vector can be delivered to the destination by simply dropping it into the nose.

31.05.2013