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Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from China and Russia have discovered that the waters and soils of the Tibetan Plateau are teeming with bacteria that produce antibiotics. While none of the antimicrobial compounds identified by the team are ...

Scientists from Skoltech and Sechenov University have developed an approach for diagnosing chronic kidney disease in its early stages. It relies on a urine sample, analyzing protein content to find pathologies and determine their severity. Such a method could one day replace biopsy, sparing patients the uncomfortable invasive procedure that involves removing a piece of kidney tissue with a needle. The study came out in the journal Molecules.

The central problem of structural bioinformatics was solved by Alphafold.It has been vastly superior at predicting protein structures after being given an