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Understanding Aging

You are cordially invited to participate in the conference "Understanding Aging: Biomedical and Bioengineering Approaches," which will be held from 27-29 June 2008 at UCLA.

Exposition of the All-Russian public movement "Medicine for quality of life" in the Duma

Stakhanovites and apologists

Can the life expectancy in the country reach 75 years in 2020? Judging by the already published data, the entire text of the "Concept of long-term socio-economic development of the Russian Federation until 2020" will be filled with the same miracles.

Will Russia be able to reduce its dependence on imported medicines?

Today, 80% of vital antibiotics, insulins, cardiological, oncological drugs are imported into Russia from abroad. And even medicines produced domestically are made from Chinese and Indian substances.

The European system of cancer care – to Russia

Leading doctors of regional oncological dispensaries who have completed an internship at the Department of Oncology at Martin Luther University shared their impressions about how the European system of providing cancer care to patients functions and how applicable it is to our conditions.

Action "Subscribe for life"

The initiators of the signature collection campaign aimed to achieve the inclusion of a highly aggressive form of breast cancer (with hyperexpression by HER-2 factor) in the federal program "Seven Nosologies".

Nanometrics for a living cell

According to experts, the new research method – single–molecular spectroscopy - promises unprecedented prospects for studying processes at the level of individual molecules, including in a living cell.

Recent data about a person

Another 25 genes that affect life expectancy, a neurophysiological mechanism for assessing financial and other risks, a method for assessing the state of mitochondria in vivo and other life sciences news in general and about human life in particular.

Micro-needles that make life easier

The proposed method combines the effectiveness of injection and the painlessness of the patch. Hundreds of microscopic polymer needles after injection into the skin quickly dissolve, and the drug contained in them diffuses into the skin.

Russian Pharmaceutical Forum

Healthcare: Government, society and business

About the great benefits of GMOs

How and what scientists who receive GM organisms do is a mystery that is shrouded in darkness for most people. Using this, the science of "genetic engineering", as well as the science of "ecology" or "theory of evolution", was politicized.

Personalized medicine

In the medical community, personalized medicine is considered either as a fundamentally new approach to medical practice, or as a continuation of the traditional principle of "treating not the disease, but the patient."

Is it possible to defeat AIDS with the help of immunosuppression?

With the spread of HIV resistance to antiretroviral drugs, immunosuppressive therapy may be the only tool in the fight against AIDS.

Nuclear Metastasis switch

Scientists were able to stop the spread of breast cancer metastases and even return cancer cells to their original appearance by "turning off" the gene of one of the nuclear proteins.

Investing "seed" stages: the case for ideas

The Board of Directors of JSC "Russian Venture Company" (RVC) approved the financing of the "seed" stages of Russian innovations.

According to international protocols

Clinical trials of new drugs are conducted according to the same protocols in different countries. Russia also participates in them, but not much: it accounts for 5-10% of the research volume.

Why are the old women alive

Scientists have found strong evidence against the "grandmother hypothesis", which explains why women continue to live after menopause. The "hypothesis of motherhood", which explains both long life and menopause itself, received support.

Britons will be allowed to use artificial sperm

A number of ministers intend to support amendments to the bill that will allow the use of artificially created gametes - sperm and egg - to induce pregnancy by in vitro fertilization

Nanobrain for nanorobots

Scientists and doctors pin high hopes on hypothetical (so far) nanorobots. But one of the key issues here is the management of such tiny molecular machines. Simply put, nanorobots need "nanobrains".