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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."

31.01.2008
Biomedicine

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.

30.01.2008
Genetic engineering

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.

25.01.2008
Genetics

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.

28.08.2007