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Russia fires a top geneticist who claimed people could live to 900 before sins caused Biblical flood

A Russian state news agency says Russias science and higher education ministry has dismissed the head of a prestigious genetics institute who sparked controversy by contending that humans once lived
Fyodor Lukyanov Alexander Kudryavtsev Trofim Lysenko Union Under Josef Stalin Russian Academy Of Science Vavilov Institute Russian Orthodox Church
Source: wfmz.com

Russia fires genetics institute head

Russias science and higher education ministry has dismissed the head of a prestigious genetics institute who sparked controversy by contending that humans once lived for centuries and that the shorter lives of modern humans are due to their ancestors sins, state news agency RIA-Novosti said Thursday.
Fyodor Lukyanov Trofim Lysenko Alexander Kudryavtsev Russian Orthodox Church Union Under Josef Stalin Russian Academy Of Science Vavilov Institute
Source: ctvnews.ca

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Full-metagenome analysis helps identify depressing gut microbe

In a three-year study, researchers from Skoltech, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of RAS, the Moscow-based Mental-Health Clinic No. 1 Named After N.A. Alexeev and Serbsky Federal Medical Research Centre of Psychiatry and Narcology have examined how gut microbes in patients with a major depressive disorder are different from those in mentally healthy people.
Alexey Kovtun Danielle Ellis Bio Research Intern Vavilov Institute Health Clinic No Serbsky Federal Medical Research Centre Of Psychiatry

Russian labs run out of equipment as sanctions begin to bite

Russian researchers are losing access to vital lab equipment and computing power as western sanctions against the country begin to bite, potentially crippling Russia’s scientific base. A mixture of direct export controls, banking sanctions and logistics shutdowns are depriving the country of kit like chemical reagents and new computers, while some of the world’s biggest scientific instrument manufacturers have stopped selling to Russia.
United Kingdom Vsevolod Makeev Alexander Nozik Jeroen Groenewegen Lau Julian Ringhof Mercator Institute For China

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