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Award for Bill and Melinda

Bill and Melinda Gates were awarded the Lasker Prize for "a historically significant change in views on the world's most serious health problems and improving the quality of life of millions of the most disadvantaged people on the planet."

11.09.2013
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MIPT has accepted a valuable employee

Professor Jan Weig, one of the world's leading experts on genome changes in the aging process, joined the MIPT research team as a visiting professor.

11.09.2013
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Happiness has fallen!

Russia rose by eight lines at once compared to last year's ranking of the happiest countries in the world, taking 68th place out of 150.

10.09.2013
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Estonian calf with human growth hormone gene

When the calf becomes an adult cow, it will be able to give milk saturated with growth hormone, which can then be isolated and used in the pharmaceutical industry.

04.09.2013
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Rapists and maniacs, don't forget about condoms!

When the police informed Richard Thomas that the woman he had raped was HIV-infected, he lost consciousness and collapsed on the floor. Naturally, at the time of the rape, the man did not think about using a condom.

03.09.2013
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Wine is given to us for joy

A study by Spanish scientists has shown that people who regularly consume a small amount of wine are less likely to be depressed.

03.09.2013
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The most common causes of death

The World Health Organization reports that in 2011, two-thirds of all deaths in the world were caused by non-communicable diseases.

03.09.2013
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Cryobank Scandal

According to one of the victims' lawyers, the sperm samples of his clients became unusable as a result of the breakdown of the container in which they were stored.

23.08.2013
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Pharmaceutical manufacturers of all countries, unite!

Pharmaceutical and biotech companies, outsourcing research organizations, research centers, investors involved in the development of medicines are interested in a partnership based on the sharing of information.

21.08.2013
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His example is another science

Anatoly Chubais sold all the shares of foreign companies he had, and also transferred personal funds to a Russian bank.

19.08.2013
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VI All-Russian Congress "Symbiosis-Russia"

About 300 people will take part in the VI All-Russian Congress of Young Biologists "Symbiosis-Russia", which will be held in Irkutsk for the first time from August 19 to 23, online.

19.08.2013
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"Death Watch" – a fake sensation?

Director of the Institute of Gerontology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Vladimir Shabalin: "Such sensations appear almost every month. But then it turns out that the sensation quickly "deflated". I am sure that the same thing will happen with the "death indicator"."

13.08.2013
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Antibiotics: present and future

According to Nobel Laureate Sidney Altman, relatively simple antibiotic molecules isolated from natural sources will be replaced by artificially synthesized compounds aimed at turning off the genes of microbes.

11.07.2013
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Looking at the database…

Malfunctions in the DNA search system in the database of the forensic laboratory led to the fact that several dangerous crimes were solved with great delay.

11.07.2013
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Skolkovo: priority – diagnosis and treatment of cancer

The number of participants in the cluster of biological and medical technologies of the Skolkovo Foundation has now exceeded 200 companies. Half of them carry out projects in the field of cancer diagnosis and treatment.

08.07.2013