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• Researchers from ITMO and University of Toronto Develop Non-Antibiotic Material to Fight Infection and Mend Wounds

  …ution does not gel at 37 degrees Celsius (the temperature of the human body), but the covalent grafting of cellulose and gelatin does. The resulting material is capable of maintaining any given shape.” Several factors influenced why nanocrystalline cellulose and gelatin were chosen as the gel components. Firstly, the gel they form facilitates the healing process…

  23.11.2020

• Russia on Film: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  …t Union but, I guess, Lenin is still hiding somewhere (and we all know where). But the USSR is for sure thriving in Red Sparrow (2018). The school’s interior with faded red curtains and mosaics makes you want to grab your hammer and sickle and complete your five-year plan in just three years. Vodka, matryoshka dolls, bears, and ushankas Do you remember Arnold S…

  23.11.2020

• School of Translational Information Technologies Head Alexander Boukhanovsky Named Dean of the Year

  … practice. But that’s a whole other award.” He also adds that the School is based on the “confederative principle,” meaning that all of its faculties work together to maintain ITMO University’s reputation as an interdisciplinary institution. “We see information technologies not as “servants of science,” solely to be used to automate functions and perform ca…

  20.11.2020

• Friday Experiment: Attempting to Write Every Day

  …always want it to be perfect, especially when it’s a public thing – this perfection is expressed both in finding the right words to express an idea and making these words entertaining to read. Then, as if that was not enough of a burden to carry on your shoulders, there is the guilt of not practicing or posting regularly enough that slowly but steadily grows with eve…

  20.11.2020

• Project by ITMO Student Displayed at the State Museum of Urban Sculpture

  …llusion to Lukas Arons’ ‘Over….. time’, and the portal symbolises its namesake created by Viktor Grachyov.”   It took Daria six months to finish the project: the video contained seven scenes, each of which was created separately in various visual and 3D editors, such as After Effects and Maya, using additional plugins and packages (for instance, Newton 3 that im…

  20.11.2020

• Top Nine Questions About Genome Decoding

  …rs? Why do we need all this? What is DNA? It’s more or less common knowledge that there are proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. Along with these, each cell contains deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which is responsible for data storage. For specialists in genomics and bioinformatics, DNA is one of the main languages of biology. It contain conclusions,” tells us the developer. “We use different models depending on their educational phase: first- and second-year students act differently than third- and fourth-years, and diffe…

  19.11.2020

• Results of ITMO University’s First Online Course on Climate and Journalism

  …iversity. I read a lot about climate and right before the course’s launch, I came across the article about the University of Sheffield and its initiative to make courses on sustainable development and climate crisis mandatory in five years. Making a course on climate journalism available to all ITMO students seems like an excellent alternative. There were also lec…

  18.11.2020

• Researchers Perform Simultaneous MR Microscopy of Two Samples With Ceramic Resonators

  …itanate and strontium titanate, which ended up being more efficient than a solenoid. Using these resonators allowed us to improve the quality of imaging by two times while maintaining the same timespan.” Two for one Last year, the researchers published an overview of their use of ceramic probes in microscopy. But producing such a highly efficient resonato…

  17.11.2020

• Brain as a Hologram: Exploring Vision at ITMO’s Museum of Optics

  … H. Hubel and Torsten Wiesel demonstrated (initially almost by accident!) that there were specific neurons in the visual cortex of a cat activating to lines positioned at a certain angle – and only at that angle. There were others that reacted to movement, and others that reacted to patterns of light and darkness. These results were revolutionary, as they showed how …

  17.11.2020