A new vaccine against tuberculosis, developed in Russia, has successfully passed the first stage of clinical trials and has proven its safety, TASS reports . As the head of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Veronika Skvortsova reported at the Global Ministerial Conference of the World Health Organization (WHO) on tuberculosis, the high immunogenicity and safety of the vaccine have been confirmed.

The Russian Ministry of Justice confirmed that nine media outlets were notified of the possibility of being included in the list of foreign agents. This is reported on the department's website.

The father of a boy from Balashikha who died in April will give the 2.5 million rubles he was awarded to charity. Interfax reports this. By decision of the Balashikha Railway Court on November 15, Olga Alisova was found guilty of criminal negligence and hitting a child. The woman will have to pay 2.5 million rubles as compensation for moral damage. “I hope that they will help some child with cancer survive.

For the first time in the world, American scientists tried to edit a defective gene in the body of a living adult, and not in separately grown cells. 44-year-old Brian Maddox suffers from Hunter syndrome, a rare disease associated with the X chromosome, writes the Associated Press. His liver does not synthesize one of the enzymes, iduronate-2-sulfatase. As a result, substances that bind cells in tissues accumulate in the body and lead to disruptions in the functioning of organs and tissues.

Igor comes to the "night bus" almost every day, ten years in a row Help the hip help We meet Igor on Vladimir. Here the poor can get food from the church. Igor is bickering with someone for a long time because of the place in the queue, then takes two packages with some rubbish, and we go to the dining room nearby. Igor asks a glass of boiling water. He has a tea bag and sugar. The employees passing by will mow at us and the knapsacks that Igor put behind a chair.

Residents of the village of Nelkan, where the L-410 passenger plane crashed on November 15, asked the governor of the Khabarovsk Territory to posthumously reward the passenger who, in their opinion, saved a three-year-old girl. The chief specialist of the Nelkana administration, Marina Stulkova, told Interfax that residents turned to the head of the region and the village administration with a request to reward the deceased Olga Laponnikova.

A group of scientists from the University of Southern California has created an implant that can improve human memory. The development may be useful for people with Alzheimer's disease, Business Insider reports . According to the publication, the new device was called a “memory prosthesis.” Scientists conducted an experiment with the participation of 20 volunteers, whose brains had already been implanted with electrodes for the treatment of epilepsy. The experiment took place in two stages.

The Russian rock band “Zveri” will perform in London with a charity concert, the funds from which will be used to stage a play starring the wards of a rehabilitation center for people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) “Anton Is Near”. The “Beasts” concert will take place on November 19 at the UNDER THE BRIDGE venue, according to the band’s official website. The organizers emphasize that this is the first event in a series of charity events “Friends in the Ward”.

Andrei Loshak talked with Olga Romanova about why she had to leave Russia and what ideal prisons should be Last week, the journalist and human rights activist Olga Romanova wrote on her Facebook that she was forced to leave Russia because of the criminal case started with the FSIN of the Federal Penitentiary Service . We contact Olga via Skype late in the evening. She had just returned from a trip to Brittany's prisons to Paris, where she stayed visiting Gevorkeshi (Natal and Gevorkyan).

The Gift of Life Foundation calls for support for the Mad Tea Party charity flash mob, the goal of which is to raise money for the treatment of children with cancer. TD was informed about this by the press service of the organizers. The Mad Tea Party event is traditionally held on November 26, the birthday of the Gift of Life foundation.

In the village of Krasnolipye, Repyevsky district, Voronezh region, local residents repaired Chapaevskaya street, washed out by rains, with broken bricks from the stadium. Repyevka resident Lyudmila Abramova posted a photo on her Facebook page on November 14 showing men laying bricks directly in the dirt. Local residents received money for repairs by winning a grant for village improvement - 275 thousand rubles, Rossiyskaya Gazeta clarifies .

The Kalininsky District Court of Ufa has begun the consideration of a criminal case against the head of the gynecology department of city hospital No. 13, Irina Milman, reports State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Bashkortostan. According to investigators, the doctor was negligent by sterilizing a girl with mental disabilities at the request of her guardian, while this required a court decision.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Tomsk Region is conducting an investigation into the publication in the media of a video recording in which a teacher at kindergarten No. 40 in Seversk, swearing, forces a crying child to eat. Tomsk investigators, having watched the video, established that “the teacher of the MBDOU “Kindergarten No.

What will happen if artificial intelligence of the superhuman level decides to make humanity happy? The successful creation of artificial intelligence will be the biggest event in the history of mankind. Unfortunately, it may be the last if we do not learn how to avoid risks. Stephen Hawking So far, people do not see robots who kill people on the streets, they do not know how to react, because such a scenario seems unrealistic.