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The Second All-Russian Olympiad in Nanotechnology

It is planned to arrange an "ark in case of an apocalypse" on the Moon

The ark will store DNA, embryos and everything necessary for life and civilization; these resources will be used if the Earth is devastated by a collision with a giant asteroid, a sudden climate change or a nuclear catastrophe.

Getting rid of banana technologies

Is it possible to turn nanotechnology into nanotechnology – a science and a field of knowledge with clearly defined goals and the subject of research?

Business of Innovative Technologies – Saint Petersburg

It should be filled with drugs and closed with tiny controlled valves.

Rapidly changing oncology

Modern drugs for the treatment of oncological diseases have fundamental differences from those that appeared on the market in the 1970s.

Anti-wrinkle cosmetics: not everything is so smooth

There are creams that, according to manufacturers, smooth out wrinkles and tighten the contour of the face. But how many people are there who really got rid of wrinkles with the help of such means?

Credulity and gratitude are hereditary signs

Differences between people in the degree of "trustfulness" and "gratitude" are at least 10-20% genetically predetermined.

Is it necessary to raise immunity?

For people without medical education, the concept of immunity and its weakening is mainly formed by advertising companies of drugs aimed at "strengthening" and "strengthening" the immunity that is obviously reduced for everyone.

RVC will receive a billion for venture "seed"

The RVC Board of Directors also unanimously approved the development of the so-called "seed stage" of venture capital. Probably, 1 billion rubles will be allocated from the budget for this project.

How to distinguish science from pseudoscience?

How, when encountering unusual hypotheses or discoveries in print, to distinguish a sensational breakthrough in a particular field of science from pseudoscientific fictions? Michael Shermer, an American historian of science, offers ten criteria that will help to do this.

Everyone will live up to 150 years: 10 most important stages of genetics

Other discoveries are waiting for us in the near future. We will gradually write down the responsibility of each gene, and 150 years of life will become something natural and normal. This will happen much sooner than many people think. We'll have time to see it.

Immortality in exchange for infertility?

Homozygous mutants of the second generation lived ten times longer, but turned out to be infertile. Maybe it is possible to somehow compensate for the infertility associated with the age-1 gene and leave only immortality?

The dream of eternal life

Finding a "Macropoulos remedy" that allows you to defeat old age with one pill is a hopeless task, but in recent years, the problems of gerontology have attracted increasing attention from researchers in various fields of life sciences.

Cigarettes renew the lungs

Hydrogen peroxide, which is included in tobacco smoke, even in small concentrations activates the receptor responsible for the reaction of lung epithelial cells to growth factor, a signaling molecule with which the body controls the renewal of the lung surface. As a result, the cells begin to divide more actively.

Healthy on his own

Doctors are confident that Russian patients – both ordinary staff and superiors – will soon realize that it is much more profitable to monitor their health by undergoing medical examinations and doing prevention every year than paying for the treatment of a neglected disease.

Myths about "excess" weight

A whole industry has developed around weight loss, making a lot of money on the desire to lose "extra pounds". And this topic has become overgrown with myths, like the bottom of a ship with shells.

Hydrocolonotherapy: the myth of purity

Hydrocolonotherapy only skillfully pretends to be the latest technique, but in fact it is an ordinary enema. With all the consequences – in every sense of the word.

New details of blood clotting: a computer model of fibrinogen has been created

Cosmetics and genetics: what do they have in common?

Cosmetics that would be able to "intelligently" influence the genetic mechanisms of skin cells are still as far from real embodiment as gene therapy of diseases.

Weed out mutants

The organism of a higher animal is able to get rid of mutant mitochondria extremely effectively: they disappear after 2-6 generations. The selection of normal mitochondria occurs in female germ cells or at the subcellular level.