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The Science We've Lost

Wages are lower than in science only in such sectors as agriculture, non-productive services for the population, culture and art, education and forestry. Almost every 13th emigrant is a scientist! The main group of emigrants are programmers, biotechnologists, molecular geneticists.

How Molecular Cell Biology is being Killed

In January 2008, the participants of the Molecular and Cellular Biology program found themselves in the information and budget vacuum zone – no one canceled the program, but also did not extend it, as, indeed, other programs of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Those scientists who believed the seriousness of the promises of the Academy of Sciences and returned to Russia, having received grants for 3 and 5 years, found themselves "in limbo."

Competition of Russian-Austrian research projects in 2009

The Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Austrian Scientific Foundation announce the 2009 contest of joint Russian-Austrian research projects.

Commendation of Personalized Medicine (1)

By using molecular genetic analysis to achieve optimal medical results in the fight against a disease or a patient's predisposition to a particular disease, personalized medicine can lead to the introduction of new health standards.

A commendatory word for personalized Medicine (2)

Personalized medicine provides a new, more profitable economic model for drug development for both pharmaceutical companies and patients.

The first artificial bacterial genome

In the summer of 2007, the Institute of the famous Craig Venter completed work on the creation of the world's first "man-made" bacteria.

Schizophrenia genes are searched in the mountains

Scientists from the Human Genetic Adaptation Group of the N.I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences have been trying to identify the genes responsible for chronic diseases by studying representatives of the indigenous peoples of Dagestan for decades. Currently, the attention of researchers is focused on the genes that determine the occurrence of schizophrenia.

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