The aim of the cell bank is to focus on developing cures and antidotes to intractable diseases such as tick-borne encephalitis.
Scientists disclose vital statistics of 'Sibirosaurus', 20 metres (66 ft) in length, able to stand tall on hind legs.
Proof that lions roamed northern Siberia in the age of the mammoths and woolly rhinoceros.
Dozens of major tremors recorded this year as scientists monitor 'unusually strong seismic activity' that will one day tear continent in half.
Now only $310,000 is needed to develop it BUT researchers cannot raise the funds.
Intriguing finds from archeological excavations in old garrison town of Tara, a key historic staging post to the east.
The prospects of a cloned mammoth is nearer after the sensational discovery of 'living cells' from the ancient creatures in northern Siberia.
Experts to visit remote craters to solve the puzzle on their creation.
Now the prickly rodent lives no closer than 2,000 kilometres away, but its remains - recently dated - are scattered in caves of the Altai Mountains.