Innovations

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Biotechnologies - into life

Russian and European scientists create innovative medicines together

Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Alexey Egorov – about the preliminary results of six international projects supported by the RFBR and the European Laboratory of Molecular Biology aimed at creating innovative medicines.

01.07.2013
Biotechnologies - into life

Bioplastics and biodiesel from meat processing plant waste

Lipids from animal waste are converted into fatty acid compounds, which are divided into saturated and unsaturated. Unsaturated fatty acids are processed into biodiesel, and saturated fatty acids are processed into bioplastics.

28.06.2013
Note to the businessman

A useful toilet is looking for investors

Codling believes that its development will reduce the number of cases of rectal cancer, hemorrhoids, fecal incontinence, as well as heart attacks in the toilet. Now the designer is looking for investors to bring his development to the market.

27.06.2013
Biotechnologies - into life

Space Bioreactor

The reactor for conducting biotechnological processes in microgravity operates on the tornado principle. Stem cells or microparticles are mixed by an air vortex – thus, biological and other objects can be created.

21.06.2013
Note to the businessman

You take someone else's and for a while, and you give your own and forever

Startups should think carefully before going to venture funds for money. Entrepreneurs need to analyze and evaluate when it is better to attract investments, understand why a startup needs them and, most importantly, what the consequences of such attraction will be.

21.06.2013
Note to the businessman

VentureHealth offers to invest in Life Sciences

The VentureHealth crowdfunding platform offers investors the opportunity to finance various companies with a wide range of parameters, such as risk level, return on investment, potentially explosive technologies.

17.06.2013
Note to the businessman

How much are smokers today?

Smoking employees cost the employer on average almost $6,000 more per year than non-smokers.

06.06.2013
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
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
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
Note to the businessman

The biosimilar market will grow

The volume of the global biosimilar market in 2013 will amount to 2.4 billion US dollars, the annual growth will reach 20%. In the long term, a constant increase in the volume of the mentioned market is predicted for 10 years.

28.05.2013
Innovative Russia

Has Skoltech cost Russia too much?

The question is how much money went to the United States to create the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, and what results it will give for the country, the science department of the Newspaper.Ru" tried to figure it out together with scientists, foundation staff and independent experts.

23.04.2013
Innovative Russia

What hinders the development of the St. Petersburg pharmaceutical cluster?

The creation of a medical cluster in St. Petersburg was announced in 2009, and since then they have been reporting annually on the successes and prospects of this undertaking, but there are so many pitfalls in pharmaceuticals that one association of manufacturers in a cluster cannot solve them.

17.04.2013
Innovative Russia

The economy must be innovative

Dmitry Medvedev signed the state program "Economic Development and Innovative Economy" developed by the Ministry of Economic Development.

04.04.2013
Innovative Russia

Biomedicine in the Far East

The development of new scientific directions at the School of Biomedicine of the Far Eastern Federal University is described by its director, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Yu.Khotimchenko and the head of the Department of Fundamental Medicine, Professor A.Field workers.

03.04.2013