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At what stage of study is cloning now and why can't you take antibiotics without a doctor's prescription? How are we different from bananas, mice, monkeys?
Our employee Alexey Vedyaikin, a research engineer at the Nanobiotechnology Research Complex and associate professor at the Higher School of Biomedical Systems and Technologies, spoke about this in the new episode of the Translate to Human podcast at the Polytechnic University, dedicated to genetic engineering.
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- Polytechnic University scientists' project wins international grant competition
An application for joint international research submitted by a group of scientists from the Nanobiotechnology Research Complex led by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, together with colleagues from Uppsala University (Sweden), won the competition of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, announced at the end of June 2021. A total of 27 applications were submitted to participate in the selection for the provision of grants in the field of science for conducting scientific research by Russian scientific and educational organizations together with organizations from the Nordic countries.
“The topic of the announced project sounds like “Regulation of transcription by molecular barriers of various natures,” commented Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Director of the Nanobiotechnology Research Complex. - “Together with our university, the Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology of the University of Uppsala in Sweden will work on the project. We plan that the implementation of this project will contribute to the development of new approaches to inhibiting bacterial transcription, one of the main targets for antibiotics.”
- Konstantin Severinov about the Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology for the STRF.ru portal
For the love of bacteria
STRF.RU, Anna Gorbatova
The winner of the third competition of the government mega-grant program, Konstantin Severinov, created a laboratory at the St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University (SPbSPU) to conduct research in the field of molecular, environmental and applied microbiology. What kind of research is this? Will it provide any practical solution in the future? The STRF.ru correspondent asked the microbiologist about this and more.
- Mikhail Alekseevich Khodorkovsky about the Scientific and Educational Center "Nanobiotechnology" for the portal STRF.ru
A place where the creative ambitions of scientists can be realized in the "warm palm" of the state
STRF.ru, Yuri Nikiforov
It is believed that the huge funds thrown by the state into nanotechnology will raise the activity of all Russian science. But if the research results are not so large-scale, the consequences of these investments will be disastrous for both science and the country as a whole, believes Mikhail Khodorkovsky, director of the Center for Nanobiotechnology being created at St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, and talks about the research that is supposed to be conducted on its basis. Moreover, at such a level that the country's leadership will not consider the waste of "nanomoney" senseless.