In 2001, the first results of sequencing of the human genome were published. The result of expensive and laborious studies was data on genomes (full nucleotide sequences of DNA) of just a few individuals. However, it has long been known that in different individuals in the population, genes may differ slightly in nucleotide sequences.

Joseph Polterovich Try to guess in which country the head of one of the leading universities recently made the following speech: “... Universities can make mistakes just like their employees and students. And just like people, universities should often remind themselves of the principles that they want to follow ... Discrimination in Jewish students undermined the basics of academic ethics ... of the faculty and, ultimately, the entire university. I apologize for this. We ask for forgiveness.

In the north-west of Moscow, a man was killed as a result of a road conflict. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in the police. Late on Friday evening at the house No. 39 on Nizhny Mnevniki Street between the driver of the Mercedes S300 car and an unknown driver, a road conflict that grew into a shootout occurred.

The head of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas said that Russia will participate in the exhumation of the remains of Yasir Arafat. The Russians, thus, will act in cooperation with experts from France and Switzerland, AFP reports. Abbas, in his speech dedicated to the eighth anniversary of the death of Arafat, expressed the hope that the exhumation would reveal new facts associated with the death of the late Palestinian leader.

Try to guess in which country the head of one of the leading universities recently made the following speech: “... Universities can make mistakes just like their employees and students. And just like people, universities should often remind themselves of the principles that they want to follow ... Discrimination in Jewish students undermined the basics of academic ethics ... of the faculty and, ultimately, the entire university. I apologize for this. We ask for forgiveness.

“The situation in science is not just difficult. We simply do not have science. Of course, there are still strong scientific groups that somehow manage to survive. But there is no scientific infrastructure, ” - such a statement began his speech to teachers, scientists, parents gathered in Moscow at the monument to Karl Marx, a chemist, associate professor of the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University, and the winner of the presidential award for young scientists Alexei Bobrovsky .

The Perm police detained on Sunday morning, November 11, 12 people who staged a fight with the use of weapons near the bar on Bushmakin Street. It is reported by " Interfax ." "12 people were delivered to the police officer of the Ordzhonikidze district. One of them was seized a traumatic pistol. One of the fighting participants with a wound of the lower leg was hospitalized. He was given medical assistance.

The divorce mechanism of the Palace Bridge in St. Petersburg will be removed and transferred to one of the museums of the city during the reconstruction. About this, according to Interfax , said the press secretary of Governor George Poltavchenko Andrei Kibitov. So far, the mechanism is planned to be transferred to the Museum of Science and Technology. The divorce mechanism of the palace bridge raises 700 ton spans.

In the north of Myanmar, at least five people died from an earthquake that occurred on Sunday. It is reported by Reuters . Not far from the epicenter of the earthquake, in the city of Schvebo, an unfinished bridge collapsed on people. Other these these are not reported. An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 occurred on Sunday morning. The epicenter was at a depth of about 9 kilometers, about 60 km northwest of the second in the population of the city of Mandalaya.

The crew of the sunken tugboat "Atall", which was saved last night, was saved by the command of the vessel "Vasily Klimov", did not go ashore due to the fact that Vasily Klimov could not spark the port of Temryuk in the Svzi with weather conditions. "At night, the vessel" Vasily Klimov "with the crew saved from the sunken tug" atall "could not go to the port of Temryuk to land the sailors, due to the storm. The height of the wave reached two meters.

GLONASS General Designer Yuri Urlichich is relieved of his post. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. "By the decision of the Military-Industrial Commission under the Government of the Russian Federation, Yuri Urlichich was dismissed from the post of general designer of the GLONASS system," said Lidia Mikhailova, press secretary of Rogozina. Recall that this week the police announced that.

Ilya Oleinikov died - a Russian pop actor and TV presenter, People's Artist of Russia. This was reported by the TV channel " Russia 24 . Ilya Oleinikov - the real name of Klyaver - was born in Chisinau in 1947, in the family of Shornnik. He graduated from the Moscow State School of circus and pop art. He starred in the cinema since 1968. In 1993, together with Yuri Stayanov, he created a television program "Gorodok".

The Central Election Commission of Ukraine announced the end of the vote count in the parliamentary elections. By law, he was obliged to do this until Monday, November 12. In total, 450 mandates were distributed in the elections, the CEC distributed 445 seats. The winners in 5 single -mandate districts could not be installed, RIA Novosti reports.

In the American city of Indianapolis, an explosion occurred in a residential quarter, as a result, two houses were completely destroyed, about 20 houses were damaged, reports AP. At least two people died, perhaps the number of victims will increase. The explosion occurred late in the evening of November 10, when most residents were already asleep. Presumably, gas exploded in one of the houses.