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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

Viruses: why can't we beat them?

Duration: 0:35:03

Viruses. They are not considered alive because they have no metabolism, but they can reproduce. The simplest of them have only one molecule of nucleic acid, and they can cause a lot of harm to the host organism, up to a fatal outcome.

Language: Russian
Topics: BiologyViruses

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

Will the nanoworld help a person?

Duration: 0:36:41

Latvian scientists are developing optical biosensors for diagnosing the presence of a dangerous microorganism in food products. It can cause severe damage to the internal organs of a person. People with weakened immune systems are at particular risk .

Language: Russian
Topics: BiologySpectroscopySensors

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

Natalya Avseenko: the girl who conquered the cold

Duration: 0:11:06

Freediving world champion Natalya Avseenko spent 15 minutes under the ice at a temperature of -2.5 degrees Celsius. Natalia spent the experiment to study the language, echolocation and behavior of belugas in the White Sea, and the ability to survive in extreme cold conditions.

Language: Russian
Topics: BiologyNatalya AvseenkoBelugasArctic

Archeobotany in action. Fossil food

Duration: 0:35:00

How did the science of archaeobotany appear and develop? What plant remains can be found in the cultural layer of different eras? How and why did these plants survive? What can they "tell" about the time in which they grew up? Is it possible to sow and grow wheat from the time of the pharaohs?

Language: Russian
Topics: BiologyPlantsArchaeobotanyTime of the pharaohs

The principle of hierarchy, or a living integral system from a cell to the Universe

Duration: 0:34:58

The body as an integral system has been studied for several millennia . There are theories based on the fact that everything around is alive to some extent, with corresponding signs, for example, such as movement and development .

Language: Russian
Topics: BiologyUniverseCarl Ludwig von BertalanffyGiordano Bruno