An international team of scientists, which was joined by a Russian specialist as well, researched the mechanism used by immune cells to fight the mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogens.

Russian scientists together with the specialists from the space industry intend to create mini-satellites which for the first time in the world will be able to join in groups, educate themselves and even repair each other without leaving the orbitю

More than 10 complexes of space monitoring system of new generation are to be deployed in various regions of Russia until 2018.

Moscow State University became the only Russian university included into the top 200 best universities in the world in the ranking compiled by the British company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

Russia will have the orbital group of eleven remote Earth sensing satellites for various purposes at its disposal in 2015.

Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov (MSU) and Beijing Polytechnic University signed an agreement on establishment of a joint university.

Russian scientists have created a bioartificial liver based on cellular technologies. As a result of its transplantation the functions of a damaged liver may be almost completely restored.