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Competition under the program "Mikhail Lomonosov" for 2008/2009.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation are opening another competition for scientific grants under the jointly funded Mikhail Lomonosov II program.

The end of homeopathy?

Let's imagine a conversation with a fan of homeopathy. "You see," he says, "I firmly believe that when I take a homeopathic remedy, I feel better." Great, you say. No one will take away the right to feel better from a supporter of homeopathy.

Modern technologies and methods of diagnostics of various groups of diseases

The mysteries of the fifteenth chromosome

In a certain section of the 15th chromosome, several patients showed giant deletions, up to a million nucleotides. All of them had mental underdevelopment in combination with epilepsy or abnormal brain activity.

Jacuzzi: more harm than good?

If a teaspoon of ordinary tap water contains 138 bacteria, then there were 2 million of them in the water from the jacuzzi.

Vaccinology 2008

Money was deposited in the brain

American and Japanese neurophysiologists have studied the brain's response to two of the most famous and powerful stimuli – money and power. It turned out that both factors are "projected" into one part of the brain – the striatum.

Biomedicine News

Another review of the latest achievements in various fields of biomedicine from the Voice of America.

Chemical youth

Studies by Castren and his colleagues give serotonin reuptake inhibitors a second youth, due to the fact that these substances restore youth to brain cells.

Masturbation reduces the risk of prostate cancer, but…

Frequent masturbation can help men under the age of 50 to reduce the risk of prostate cancer in older age.

UNESCO-L'OREAL Scholarships for young women engaged in science

Russian candidates should inform the Secretariat of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO about their participation in the UNESCO-L'OREAL Scholarship competition.

British scientists have created a hybrid of a human and a cow

They took an egg from a cow, removed the nucleus from it and placed a nucleus taken from a human skin cell in this cell envelope, and after three days they stopped the experiment. The largest hybrid preembryon consisted of 32 cells.

Bionic eye restores blind vision

Surgeons implanted "bionic eyes" to two men who became blind as a result of retinitis pigmentosa, and partially restored their vision.

The most common medical myths

Ten myths about diseases and treatment with their subsequent exposure.

Biotechnology from a finger

The crossing of homeopathy with bioresonance medicine has given rise to an amazing device. He is able to determine without any tests in a matter of minutes whether you have ever used drugs, and if so, which ones, when and in what quantity.

Why do we need "unnecessary" genes

If a gene becomes unnecessary, then it should quickly fail under the influence of random mutations that are not eliminated by selection. But how to explain the high evolutionary stability of many of these genes?

Neurons are treated by fusion

In response to chronic inflammation signaling the disease, blood stem cells rush into the brain and merge with one of the types of neurons 100 times more intensively than previously thought.

Mustard instead of doping?

Blood doping and the administration of synthetic erythropoietin are prohibited by all sports governing bodies. Perhaps in the future, the desired results can be achieved by exposing the skin of athletes to air with a low oxygen content, or by increasing skin blood flow.

Another touch to the connection of fasting with life expectancy

The increased production of Gcn4 in the cells of long-lived yeast strains in combination with its need for an increase in life expectancy associated with fasting makes this protein an important factor in the mechanism of life extension that has been actively studied recently.

The Cloning Revolution, stage 2

Revolutionary cloning technology will be used in desperate attempts to save one of the rarest animals on Earth – the northern white rhinoceros, which is on the verge of extinction.