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• Harvard Medical School Professor Peter Kharchenko: Using Statistics To Understand How Cells Work

  …h a great number of cells. That is why we had to create a certain type of programs so that biologists and we ourselves could quickly identify the origin of changes during a specified disease. It is very time-consuming, but the good news is that we can use the results again and again. Now it’s not just our lab that has access to them but many other research groups.  …

  25.12.2019

• Bones and All: ITMO’s Food Biotechnologies Researchers Propose New Zero-Waste Fish Consumption Technologies

  …ossible to reduce the strain on the bodies of water in which the fish are farmed, as well as make the process more cost-effective in general. Post-spawning changes Pacific, pink, chum and other types of salmon are luxurious red fish that are sold at quite a high price as steaks, lightly salted filets, and other food products. But there is a whole range of p…

  24.12.2019

• Love is... Food: How ITMO Students’ New Dating App Firstep Works

• Flu Vaccine and Lung Cancer Medication Developed by ITMO Technopark’s Resident Awarded Gold Medals at the iENA 2019 Exhibition in Germany

  …or cell. Theoretically, they can be developed against almost any naturally occurring antigen, including proteins and polysaccharides. The antibody acts by binding them in a specific way, which will help in the fight against many diseases.  “Our monoclonal antibody clings, so to speak, to cancer cells, thanks to which it prevents their reproduction, putting an en…

  23.12.2019

• Different Approaches, One Goal: International Week of Social Entrepreneurship at ITMO University

  …o the second category. If we dig deeper, in the case of corporate social responsibility a company’s primary activity may not pertain to the social sphere, but it implements specific socially oriented projects, while social entrepreneurship is based on an algorithm of making money on alleviating social problems. Talking about the Swiss perspective, it’s important to u…

  19.12.2019

• Online Competition in Physics by ITMO and St. Petersburg State University: First Qualifying Round

  …n the virtual laboratory. Running the Barsic software, which was developed by the specialists of St. Petersburg State University’s Faculty of Physics, a computer reproduces specific physical experiments. This allows to not only evaluate the participants’ level of theoretical knowledge but also test how well they fare at experiments. By tradition, the competition’s th…

  16.12.2019

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: Grand Model Russia

  …before starting the cycle again.  One thing I particularly liked about this experience is that it balances generality with detail. On the one hand, it doesn’t depict any specific towns other than the capitals, but at the same time, you’ll find landmarks like Kizhi – a little island known for its breathtaking wooden architecture, or Pokrova na Nerli church, famous …

  13.12.2019

• UMNIK Grant Program: ITMO Students’ Winning Projects

  …ed properties will enable us to create a digital portrait of each sample. As a result, we’ll get a large database that would be convenient to use for selecting reagents for specific conditions. We plan to use the money provided by the grant to buy our own terahertz spectrometer in order to be able to develop our own software. The global goal of the UMNIK progr…

  10.12.2019

• Face to Face Startup: How Participants of ITMO’s Pre-Accelerator Program Improve Events Networking

  …More than just a business card replacement Improving networking at events: this is how Ilya Farafonov describes the main aim of the project. All too often, field-specific conferences, which among others have to serve as platforms for communication-building, fail to perform this function: participants just listen to presentations and leave, too shy to talk to the s…

  06.12.2019

• What Happens In Your Brain When You Look at a Photograph: Joint Project by ITMO Students and Rosphoto