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Biomedicine

Pills for the mind

By creating drugs that help patients, scientists at the same time offer means to smarten up healthy people. These drugs are commonly called "cognition enhancers" – means that stimulate cognitive abilities.

26.05.2008
Genetic engineering

Mutant mice don't become drug addicts

Mutant mice already familiar with the effects of the drug showed less persistence in trying to get a new dose than ordinary mice in the same situation.

26.05.2008
Biotechnologies - into life

Problems of domestic pharmaceuticals and possible solutions

The pharmaceutical industry in the modern economy is a kind of litmus test showing the level of its innovative development. We are talking with Andrey Ivashchenko, the project manager of the ChemRar Central Research Center, about what problems there are in the domestic pharmaceutical industry and about possible ways to solve them.

26.05.2008
Genetic engineering

Will Jurassic Park become a reality?

If we take into account that today the closest relatives of dinosaurs are birds, then we can say not only that "Jurassic Park" is far from reality, but also about the error of the screenwriters – because there little lizards hatched from crocodile eggs.

26.05.2008
Nanotechnology

Nanobiotechnology: a systematic approach to living

Professor Vadim Govorun, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the State Research Institute of Physico-Chemical Medicine of Roszdrav, tells about what is happening in the rapidly developing field of nanobiotechnology.

26.05.2008
Grants and competitions

Young. Audacious. Promising

The Committee on Science and Higher Education of the Government of St. Petersburg announces the acceptance of applications for participation in the XI Contest of business ideas, scientific and technical developments and research projects among students, graduate students and young managers under the motto "Young. Audacious. Promising."

26.05.2008
Other life sciences

Molecular genetic evolution of man

To understand how genes changed in evolution and these changes “made a person”, first consider a simpler question: how genes “make a person” in individual development.

23.05.2008
Your health

Genes for impotence

Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine presented the results of the first stage of clinical trials of a fundamentally new method of treating erectile dysfunction using gene therapy.

23.05.2008
Your health

Erectile dysfunction? Check the heart!

Usually, signs of erectile dysfunction appear more than three years before the first symptoms of heart disease appear. In one study involving men with type 2 diabetes, the symptoms of erectile dysfunction in all cases preceded the symptoms of coronary heart disease.

23.05.2008
Healthy skepticism

Evidence-based medicine as a means of promoting medicines

The requirements for the content of advertising publications began to change back in the 80s, taking into account the movement of evidence-based medicine. Not the least role was played by consumer lawsuits against manufacturers of medicines.

22.05.2008
Genetic engineering

A supercomputer in a Petri dish

Scientists from the University of Missouri and Davidson College in the USA, led by Carmella Haynes, demonstrated the fundamental possibility of organizing biological computing systems in vivo (in a living organism).

21.05.2008
Healthy skepticism

Nitric acid and tobacco smoke vaccine kills tuberculosis virus

Thanks to the study, it became clear that a mixture of carbon monoxide, nitric acid and oxygen can be used for further development of tuberculosis vaccines... Inaccuracy and inattention of journalists to facts is a fairly common thing.

21.05.2008
Other life sciences

DNA-based logic gates

American researchers have constructed logic elements AND, OR and XOR. DNA fragments about 24 nucleotides long are used as input for these elements; oligonucleotides are also used as output.

21.05.2008
Bioethics

Informed consent (1)

The term "informed consent" appeared in the English-speaking environment only in 1957, and in 1960 it became widespread.

20.05.2008
Exhibitions and conferences

Society, the State and medicine for the elderly

The Russian Research Institute of Gerontology of Roszdrav, the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation, the Department of Health of Moscow, the Central Research Institute of Gastroenterology of Moscow are holding the V scientific and practical conference "Society, State and Medicine for the elderly".

20.05.2008