Innovative Russia
Innovations for the whole world
The construction of an innovative economy in Russia should be as open as possible to the outside world, otherwise it will be uncompetitive, Anatoly Chubais believes.
23.04.2012- English version
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Healthy skepticism
Is there a future for anti-aging medicine?
Perhaps anti-aging medicine will become mainstream in 25-50 years. In the meantime, everything revolves mainly around plastic surgery and dermatological procedures designed to rejuvenate the appearance.
23.04.2012
Various
If you want to live a long time, think about death
Thinking about the impermanence of being not only changes a person's worldview, but also increases the duration of his life.
23.04.2012
Other life sciences
Moving without a spinal cord is no longer fantastic
The creators of the system believe that over time it will be possible to refine and test it on people with damaged spinal cord.
23.04.2012
Prolonging youth
Olive oil with fullerenes – the elixir of youth?
The rats of the control group lived an average of 22 months; the group that sat on the "Mediterranean diet" with olive oil – 26; and those who had fullerene C60 added to the oil lived almost 2 times longer than the controls, on average 42 months.
23.04.2012
Various
Half a million euros for cell reprogramming
The 2012 Technology Prize was shared by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, and Shinya Yamanaka, also a programmer in some ways :)
20.04.2012
Controversial
Calotherapy without borders
French scientists have proposed using stool transplantation for the treatment and prevention of diabetes mellitus.
20.04.2012
Genetic engineering
Xenonucleic acids
An alternative to natural carriers of genetic information, RNA and DNA – xenonucleic acids, capable of transmitting genetic information, have been synthesized in the laboratory.
20.04.2012
Biotechnologies - into life
The Center for Genomic Bioinformatics of St. Petersburg State University begins work
On April 27-28, 2012, St. Petersburg State University will host an international scientific conference dedicated to the opening of the Center for Genomic Bioinformatics.
20.04.2012
Various
The old gymnast will not spoil the bars
The 86-year-old gymnast, despite her advanced age, broke a storm of applause, surprising the audience with the performance of complex somersaults on the uneven bars.
20.04.2012
Genetic engineering
Gene therapy for the treatment of heart attack
Gene therapy allowed scientists to transform cells of a postinfarction scar forming on the myocardium of mice into contracting cardiomyocytes.
20.04.2012
Controversial
Once again about the benefits of parasites
James Logan, an employee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, deliberately became infected with helminths in order to study their effect on the severity of allergic reactions.
20.04.2012
Genetics
Breast cancer was divided into ten types instead of three
Each of the ten subtypes of breast cancer has its own unique genetic "fingerprints" that will help to correctly diagnose and treat the disease, as well as give the correct prognosis.
19.04.2012
Note to the businessman
About startups "with us" and "with them": personal experience
Notes of a technology startup about the venture industry – Russian and Western.
19.04.2012
Grants and competitions
Doctor and laboratory in your pocket
The team that proposed the best technical concept of an easy-to-use, lightweight and mobile device that can detect a whole set of diseases without the participation of a doctor will receive a prize of up to 9 million rubles and the opportunity to work in Skolkovo!
19.04.2012
Biomedicine
Glioblastoma vaccine: the result is positive
A new therapeutic vaccine against recurrent brain tumor – glioblastoma – in the phase II clinical trial increased the life expectancy of patients by 7 months or more.
19.04.2012
Genetics
The value of genomics and personalized medicine is mistakenly underestimated
In fact, the more human genomes researchers sequence and the more they identify genetic variants associated with various diseases, the higher the prognostic significance of information about the personal DNA sequence becomes.
19.04.2012
Grants and competitions
Fundamental research supported by the RFBR and DFG
The RFBR and the NRIS (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) continue to hold competitions for joint fundamental research projects on an ongoing basis.
18.04.2012
Grants and competitions
Russian-German competition for young scientists in non-stop mode
Continuous competition of Russian-German scientific projects within the framework of the program "International research groups with the participation of young scientists".
18.04.2012
Cellular technologies
Bald mice have grown human hair
Biologists believe that further experiments with human cells will create a safe and convenient tool that allows bald men to restore their hair in a few weeks.
18.04.2012