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Extreme Biology: Animals Can, Can Humans?

Duration: 0:35:52

Today we will be talking about freshwater hydras that are only one centimeter long, huge sperm whales, small mosquitoes and some amphibians with Oleg Gusev, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Head of the Laboratory "Extreme Biology" of the Scientific and Clinical Center for Precision and Regenerative Medicine of Kazan Federal University, Leading Researcher of the RIKEN Institute of Physical and Chemical Research.

Language: Russian
Topics: ScienceBiologyExtreme Biology

Immunity. Molecular wins and crashes

Duration: 0:38:28

Maxim Kazarnovsky: How does the immune response to infection occur? What is a cytokine storm? How do our cells learn to distinguish between "us" and "them"? Why is there lifelong immunity for some infections, and only temporary immunity for others? Is it necessary to "strengthen the immune system" and is it really possible to do this?

Language: Russian
Topics: ScienceBiologyImmunity

Genomic selection: fields of the past and future

Duration: 0:36:25

Plants have surrounded man for thousands of years, giving him shelter and food . But man himself actively interfered in natural processes, trying to create new types of plants for his needs . Rim Gubaev, a bioinformatician and co-founder of the start-up of genomic plant breeding OilGene, is visiting the Nature of Things .

Language: Russian
Topics: ScienceGenomicsBiologyPlants