“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates proclaimed. Almost 2,500 years later, biologists and geneticists around the world have come to the conclusion that he was right. With antibiotics in...
The saying goes that if you want to stay friends with people, you shouldn’t talk about religion or politics. In the 21 st century, perhaps another subject should be added to the list of taboo subjects in polite company: genomics. One genomics debate...
В Сколково с большим успехом прошла конференция по популяционной генетике «Геном России». Вместе с Юрием Никольским, директором по науке биомедицинского кластера, ее организовала Татьяна Татаринова, один из самых известных российских биологов, работающих...
The team behind Russia's biggest genome project to date, Genome Russia, is holding a “bake off” of genome sequencing centres to determine which centre would handle the crucial task most efficiently. There's just one problem: if the winner...
«Если вы хотите жить дольше, больше двигайтесь, меньше ешьте и постарайтесь родиться в семье с хорошей наследственностью». Такой совет Джеймс Кэпут, старший эксперт Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, дал участникам саммита по персонализированному...
National genome projects that study the gene pool of a specific country can not only reveal much about a country’s history and its inhabitants’ roots, they can also bring about advances in medical treatment. But while some countries have poured...