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Sons of Adam: Genes, history and geography

Now any of us can determine our ancestry to the progenitors of mankind. However, not biblical, but molecular-genetic – "mitochondrial Eve" and "Y-chromosomal Adam".

Where are the most mutants?

Several research groups are trying to determine which of the human races' genomes contain more mutations and how dangerous these mutations are for its representatives.

10 myths about entrepreneurship

Many of those who want to start their own business believe in a whole bunch of myths about business. The book "Illusions of Entrepreneurship: Myths that Entrepreneurs, Investors and politicians live by" destroys the most common of them.

AG Soregpis Business Ideas Contest

Minimum requirements of investors for the technical side of projects

Venture investors evaluate startups offered for investment on all these three components in order to get an impression of the startup's prospects and the ability of its team to achieve its stated goals.

Stages of startup development

Since I regularly encounter references to various stages of startup development in articles about startups, venture investments and venture investors, and I don't want to explain what I mean every time, I decided to present them in a separate article and provide them with a brief description.

Is the chop fried, with blood or cloned?

Today there are about 4 thousand heads of cloned cattle in the world. They are used mainly for breeding and while products from clones are not officially sold anywhere – although there are incredible stories that "cloned" products have already hit the market in the past.

Making a business plan

Many people believe that a business plan for a startup, especially one at the pre-startup stage of development, is a fiction that it is not necessary to do it, and if it is done, then you can do with formal words. However, such startups remain, as a rule, without investments.

Hot spots of modern gerontology

The increase in life expectancy and the aging of the population of developed countries have increased interest in gerontology, and above all, in the study of the primary mechanisms of aging of organisms and populations, as well as factors determining life expectancy.

454-sequencing (high-performance DNA pyrosequencing)

A new generation of DNA sequencing technologies, which allows the reading of genetic texts with unprecedented speed and productivity, has found wide application in biomedical research and has become a prerequisite for impressive scientific achievements.

Genetically motivated Champions

Today it has already been proven that champion athletes have unique qualities, which are determined, among other things, by their genotype. Scientists are trying to find out what factors their abilities depend on and whether it is possible to predict the achievement of high sports results by a particular person.

EurasiaBio-2008

The First International Congress "EurasiaBio-2008" will be held in Moscow on April 24-25, 2008.

A couple of successful IPOs - and we will have a venture boom

To date, none of the major league venture investors are looking at Russia seriously enough. But if there are a couple, three successful IPOs tomorrow, then the boom will begin just as it began in Israel or Ireland.

The choice between life and death

The concept of phenoptosis makes us look at the problem of aging in a different way. What if this is the way nature forces us to leave, making room for the young? What if this slow extinction, as well as the apoptosis program, is embedded in the form of a genetic program in our genome, and its main biological meaning is the acceleration of evolution? These questions allowed us to formulate a theory of programmed aging as an instrument of evolution.

Leave the yoghurts alone! The patients didn't die from them!

It is highly likely that probiotics became the cause of death of the patients participating in the clinical trial," the Utrecht University Clinic said in a press release, "but yoghurts have nothing to do with it.

Inhumane vivisection

Students of the Timiryazev Academy and a number of other Russian universities will no longer dissect animals. Inhumane vivisection was replaced by videotapes and computer programs.

Distributed computing for personalized Medicine

To carry out work within the framework of a joint project on the development of personalized medicine, which received a $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health last October, scientists use tissue microchips, pattern recognition algorithms and network supercomputer computing.

Award and medal for the best research work on bionanotechnology

Mice in which two genes controlling the synthesis of type 1 interferons were knocked out became virtually invulnerable to viral infections dangerous to ordinary rodents.

II Scientific and Practical Conference "Palliative medicine: yesterday, today, tomorrow"

Tomorrow came yesterday

Humanity has come to a turning point in its history. It will either find a way to survive in a world that will be changed by global warming and the robotoom, or it will plunge into the era of obscurantism, says English futurist James Martin.