Pre-clinical tests underway on medicines to combat cancer and tick borne encephalitis.
Bronze age man 'inhaled smoke' which may have led to 'lung cancer', and disease then ate holes in his bones, experts believe.
Half of mice suffering from highly malignant and 'incurable' Krebs-2 tumour are 'completely cured'.
Now only $310,000 is needed to develop it BUT researchers cannot raise the funds.
Pioneering facility for the production of possible medicines has been opened to bring scientific research one step closer to mass produced drugs.
The warning came at a conference in Tomsk from Heidelberg University professor Julia Kzhyshkowska.
Projects in Khabarovsk and Novosibirsk highlight victims refusing to hide away or be cowed by cancer, challenging prejudice against sufferers.
Tatyana had been given a week to live last year and had defied the odds, but sadly has now lost her fight for life.
Mushrooms growing on millions of our birch trees are 'promising' for further research, say Siberian scientists.