Simple and cheap DNA synthesis is a large frontier in bioengineering. The review of the Future magazine is devoted to the most relevant methods and promising startups in this area. Without synthetic DNA or RNA in a modern bioenger laboratory, there would have been almost nothing: neither PCR and other elements of DNA cloning, nor editing genes using the “genetic scissors” CRISPR . Currently, DNA synthesis installations operate around the clock.

For the past two decades, Russia has been among the post -Soviet countries with a not very high level of emigration. How many people have left the country, it is impossible to say for sure. There is no representative statistics and cannot be, since for many years people live abroad only with Russian passports. In many other post -Soviet countries, emigration was much more active in calculating the population.

Margarita Simonyan, Dmitry Kiselev and Vladimir Putin Kremlin Pool/Global Look Press The powerful machine of Russian propaganda worked not only within the country, but also in the West, convincing millions of people around the world that Vladimir Putin is a reliable defender of conservative values, ready to save the world from the dominance of the left and liberals. Not only Russian foreign media, but also many Western politicians and activists worked on this task.

Relatively recently, the meaning of the tattoo has changed in the cultural space: today a person resorts to bodily modifications, thereby creating a vision of himself for others. The tattoo is relevant at a certain time and in a certain place, thanks to it, the body gains a voice and declares itself. When the “special operation” began, I was afraid to accept a new reality.

The almost endless space of the semantic freemen is dangerous not only for brains and souls. It, as the events of recent times show, is dangerous for the world, and in both Russian meanings of this Russian word. Today we are observing the truly tragic consequences of this firmly included in the rhetorical fashion of semantic vastness. In this case, we are talking about widespread propaganda manipulations with the words “Nazism”, “Nazis”, “Naziki”.

“In the bright Easter week, in the very heart of our Motherland, in the Kremlin, between the Assumption, Arkhangelsk and Blagoveshchensk Cathedrals, Philip Kirkorov reached another bottom,” the Tsargrad television channel said . So we learned, firstly, where, according to the employees of the channel, this is the very bottom, and secondly, how dangerous it is to argue with Margarita Simonyan.

The last week, increased by the first portion of the May weekend, did not bring with it encouraging news regarding the prospects for the completion of hostilities in Ukraine. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with the Italian television company Mediaset again recalled that "a special military operation will end when its goals are fulfilled." And, unfortunately, this is not all that Lavrov allowed himself to speak.

The founding father of the People's Republic of Mao Zedong called the atomic bomb a "paper tiger", which does not need to be afraid. Moreover, Mao seemed to be declared on November 18, 1957 at a closed international meeting of the leaders of the Communist Parties in Moscow : “Can we assume how many human victims can cause a future war? Perhaps this will be one third of the 2 billion 700 million people around the world, that is, only 900 million people.

Photo: Zamir Usmanov / Global Look Press Last week, Oleg Tinkov said that he had to sell his share in the Tinkoff Bank under the pressure of the Kremlin. In an interview with The New York Times, he called the deal only as the removal of capital and the “sales with a discount”. According to him, the proceeds from the sale of 35% of the TCS Group shares, which includes Tinkoff Bank, he sold only “3% of the real value” to Putin Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin. “I could not discuss the price.