#2 (20) 2008
ISSN: 1810-8520
SPECIAL FEATURE:
THE POSTGENOMIC ERA OR WHY WE
NEED 300 000 MICE STRAINS
One of the first state-of-the-art centers for keeping animals with specific genetic properties, which is necessary for basic science and biomedicine, is being established in Siberia
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
The most numerous, the most diverse, and the best adapted—insects—inhabited the land 150 million years before the first mammals appeared
Surprise from the solar eclipse: during the current cycle of minimum solar activity (which has lasted a bit too long), the crown of the Sun has appeared to be noticeably inhomogeneous
Unique archaeological findings get a second birth thanks to restorers’ scrupulous work—not many museum visitors have an idea of how complicated it is
Close friends of the outstanding national archaeologist A.P. Okladnikov used to call him an “Academician in boots”
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RESEARCH HORIZONSTHE POSTGENOMIC ERA or Why We Need 300 000 Mice Strains (Ì.P. Ìîshkin) |
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PEOPLEThe Time of Bloodless Surgery (A.I. Shevela, Ya.V. Novikova, V.V. Vlassov) .pdf To the «Star Gate». From Conception to Birth (A.A. Makhotin, A.V. Makagon) .pdf |
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CLOSER TO NATUREGrasshopper Dear... Evolution and Ecology Essays (I.V. Stebaev) .pdf Sweet Scythian Root (T.G. Tolstikova, A.G Tolstikov) |
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RESEARCH LABBehind a shot of archaeological sensations (N.V. Polosmak) |
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FATES AND DESTINIESMy AP (V.P. Mylnikov) |
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXPEDITIONSTo Ìîngolia for the “Russian Eclipse” (S.À. Yazev) |



