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Cochrane collaboration in Kazan
They say you can not buy health, but we continue to waste a lot of money on it. Unfortunately, in pharmacies not all medicines can be named effective. And what do you pay attention to when you choose a medicine? To the friends’ advice? To the information from the Internet? To commercials? Meanwhile, the search for reliable information about the quality of medicines and treatment is not so difficult. Wejustneedtoknowwheretolookfor...
Headache? Solution is close!
What do we know about pain? What kind of pain do we feel more often? What do scientists do to keep us away from pain?
The interview with Rashid Giniatullin, leading researcher, DM, head of research in the field of "Neurobiology of pain" taking place in KFU based on virtual OpenLab "Neurobiology", professor of cell biology at university of East Finland
Sri Lankan graduate student talks of life in Kazan
Biologists KFU offer to cure diseases with stem cells.
Scientists at the Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology of KFU use stem cells in treatment. The method was successfully tested on animals. In the future, their technology of tissue and gene therapy has to be a solution for treatment of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and musculoskeletal system diseases. Now scientists go even further: they prove that some cells of liver may also be stem cells, and therefore they can save lives.
Biologists of KFU prepare their response in transplantology
Biologists of Kazan Federal University can offer their version in transplantology. Researchers test a polymeric framework with nanoparticles which can help in restoring of tissues, organs or bones. Experiments with nanoparticles also demonstrated additional features of cells.
Linguists help doctors in diagnosis
Linguists and healthcare professionals (doctors) of Kazan Federal University are working on a project that is supposed to simplify the diagnosis of depression. They jointly developed a questionnaire for diagnosis of functional disorders. The project "clinical and neuro linguistics" is being promoted in the RCH-2 (Republican Clinical Hospital number two). Linguists help to restore speech to patients after stroke.
KFU and RIKEN working on a new project
It will be another joint laboratory In Kazan Federal University. Participants are KFU and the Japan Institute of RIKEN. Dr. Yoshihide Hayashizaki rated the site of the second Republican Clinical Hospital. It is planned a laboratory, where scientists from Japan and Kazan will be able to use the equipment of medical institution. Our crew inspected the offices of the hospital together with scientists.
Development of ITIS can save data centers from interruptions in electricity and life at state of emergency
Students of the school of information technology and information systems are ready to provide uninterrupted power supply for modern data centers. Moreover, they offer a solution to rescue people in emergency situations. Scientists of IT-directions talked about their new developments. Some of them, such as kinetic energy storage device is even reminds the films of science fiction. How "IT specialists" from Kazan Federal University can surprise us will know from next story.