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Mikhail Zarubin and Kirill Tarasov from the DLNP Sector of Molecular Genetics of the Cell were invited experts of a new episode of RIA Novosti’s popular science podcast “We all will die. But not for sure”. The lethal radiation dose for a human is 3 to 5 Gy, and a tardigrade can withstand radiation of 10 000 Gy. Which genes do allow this animal to survive such tremendous radiation, and is it possible to insert them into our DNA? How cellular machinery works, whether genes can be switched on and off, and how they can be repaired. JINR scientists explained us molecular genetics.
09.01.2023
The January issue (No 01, 2023) of the popular science journal “Nauka i Zhizn” (“Science and Life”) published the article by Elena Vladimirovna Kravchenko, Candidate of Biology, the head of the DLNP Sector of Molecular Genetics of the Cell, about the discovery of a new species of extremophile bacteria in groundwater of one of the tunnels of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory (INR of RAS).
06.07.2022
On 17 June, the exhibition “Science in Comic Strips: an Easy Way to Explain Complicated Things” was opened at the JINR Universal Library. This exhibition is a joint project of DLNP and the Komikadze group. Elena Dubovik, the head of the Group of Scientific Communication (DLNP SciCom), shared with the reading-room audience the details of the experiment of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems on educational visualization of its investigations. Five comic strips introduced at the meeting refer to studies performed by the DLNP Sector of Molecular Genetics of the Cell under the guidance of Elena Kravchenko, Candidate of Biology. 
02.07.2022
An unusual telescope of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory in the Caucasus is located in deep tunnels under the four-kilometre-high Andyrchi mountain. Sunlight never reaches this place. What the telescope does here is “observing” distant stars. The rock shields detectors from the outside world and allows physicists to detect neutrinos, mysterious particles that hardly interact with matter. Besides cosmic fluxes of elusive neutrinos, scientists also find in the remote corners of the Baksan tunnels… curious forms of life ― earlier unknown microorganisms which have adapted to extreme environments there. These microbes can be helpful for medical and biotechnological research in the future.  
17.02.2022
On 17 January 2022, the article “A tomograph for mice has been developed at JINR” was published in the newspaper “Strana ROSATOM”: https://strana-rosatom.ru/2022/02/17/v-oiyai-izobreli-tomograf-dlya-myshej/ Experts from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and the Cuban scientific centres CENTIS and CEADEN have developed a technology that will improve the spatial resolution of single-photon emission computed tomography. It matters a lot to pharmaceutical scientists. We have talked to the project authors.
24.01.2022
This kind of device can be applied to tumour treating or electric vehicle charging. Russian scientists have developed and patented a device to multiply capacity, in particular of a new accelerator for tumour treatment. As announced by the Press Office of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), the device can also be used for fast charging of mobile gadgets and electric vehicles.
14.01.2022
During 2022−2023, the United Engine Corporation of Rostec will anneal 2100 permalloy shields for sensors of the Observatory, which will increase its sensitivity by 50%. Neutrino telescope sensors installed in the water of Lake Baikal detect high-energy particles and determine their source. It allows scientists to study events in deep space.
13.01.2022
The joint Russian−Cuban project “High-Resolution SPECT/CT Method Based on Medipix Detectors” (Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography/Computed Tomography) involves scientists from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, not far from Moscow, and researchers from the Cuban scientific centres CENTIS and CEADEN. The spokesperson of the project on the part of Russia is A. S. Zhemchugov, a deputy head of the Experimental Department of Colliding Beams (Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems of JINR), and the spokesperson on the part of Cuba is the senior researcher A. Leyva Fabelo (Center for Technological Applications and Nuclear Development, CEADEN).
06.12.2021
“Studying neutrino properties allows going beyond the Standard Model of elementary particles and revealing the mystery of the structure of the Universe,” remarked the scientist. Yury Gornushkin, the head of the Sector of Experimental Neutrino Physics of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) explained what is special about neutrino detection at the Large Hadron Collider. Being interviewed by “Zvezda”, the scientist explained that these elementary particles are of interest for many physicists in the world because studying neutrino properties allows going beyond the Standard Model and revealing the mystery of the structure of the Universe.
08.11.2021
What microorganisms, capable of making the soil and atmosphere composition suitable for life, can be settled and where   Scientists have spotted the areas on Mars where colonies of lichen and autotrophic bacteria (organisms capable of synthesizing organic matter from inorganic one) can be settled. Microorganisms will be protected from temperature differences, strong wind and hard ultraviolet radiation in the Valles Marineris and in the Hellas Planitia located near the equator. They can multiply there and transform Mars with time making it suitable for life and colonization. Experts believe that it is reasonable first to make the conditions on the neighbouring planet milder, and only then to settle microorganisms there in order to finally transform the appearance of Mars.
08.11.2021
It’s August. “Nerpyonok” (little seal), a local train, is slowly moving along the Circum-Baikal Railway at the very edge of the lake shore. Stony slopes, wooden houses in the taiga are flickering behind train windows on one side, the endless glassy Lake Baikal surface is stretching out on the other. After an hour and a half, the train arrives at the Ivanovka station. Passengers scarcely manage to get out before it starts off, slowly turns round the hill and disappears.
08.11.2021
Strings of giant’s beads are being carefully submerged into the dark water of the deepest lake on Earth. Pulled out, they cover a distance of more than a kilometre. Even the Ostankino TV Tower would seem to be a dwarf near these self-floating units. Thick cables reach the shore: the neutrino observatory hunts after the most elusive particles in the Universe born in distant space accelerators.
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