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• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #37

  Twice a month, we invite you to take in the latest breakthroughs and successes of ITMO University’s students and scientists. Today, we’ve got plenty of research updates to share – as well as a couple of impressive success stories from our industrious graduates!

  21.08.2023

• How Migraines Happen: Latest Research Reveals New Details

  Despite the fact that one in every seven people worldwide experiences migraines, their exact mechanisms and treatment have not been completely explained. In pursuit of a cure, researchers use nitroglycerin injections to simulate migraines in animals. Though commonly known as a vasodilator, the drug has exhibited inverse properties in a recent study conducted by three Russian universities. The findings shed light on migraine triggers, paving the way for novel treatment strategies.

  16.08.2023

• ITMO Experts Produce Algorithm to Improve Heart Attack Diagnostics

  The staff and students of ITMO’s Research Center “Strong AI in Industry” have come up with an algorithm that can tell if an ECG recording displays symptoms of a heart attack – all in one second. Trained on over 20,000 ECGs, the model is accurate in 85% of cases and can immediately highlight those parts of the recording that can be associated with a heart attack.

  15.08.2023

• Improved Algorithm for Lung Cancer Diagnostics Suggested by ITMO Students

  Students from ITMO University have developed a machine learning-based algorithm for detecting lung tumors on computed tomography (CT) scans. Trained on over 10,000 public-domain images, the model proved to generate results in 0.38 seconds. As noted by the developers, the technology may assist in online medical consultations to facilitate diagnostics.

  31.07.2023

• From Wet Labs to Omics Studies: A Biologist’s Path Towards His Dream Career

  Artem Amosov is a recent graduate of ITMO’s Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Master’s program who is dreaming of doing omics research – studies at the intersection of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. In this interview, we talk about the projects he ventures into at ITMO’s Institute of Applied Computer Science and the importance of additional training for professional researchers.

  11.07.2023

• ITMO Students Launch Stratospheric Satellite to Find Cure For Osteoporosis

  As part of the nationwide educational program Aerospace Engineering School, a team of ITMO students has sent a satellite into the stratosphere to find out how bone tissue is formed in low gravity and what effect silk proteins may have on the process. Potentially, the study may help prevent osteoporosis in astronauts.

  07.07.2023

• ITMO's Monday Science Roundup #26

  It’s been a while since our latest digest of all things science at ITMO – so strap in for an extra-packed edition! From staggering medical breakthroughs to a whole slew of new Master’s programs, there’s plenty to get you excited about the future of research.

  20.03.2023

• ITMO Researchers Design a Dataset to Study the Functions of Immune Cells

  As a central component of the human immune system, mononuclear phagocytes defend the body by absorbing bacteria, viruses, and dead or damaged cells, thus fighting off infections and helping build immunity. Researchers from ITMO University, together with their colleagues from the Immunological Genome Project (ImmGen), have devised a specialized resource to study mononuclear phagocytes and a novel method for gene expression analysis. Featured in Cell Reports, the results of their work may potentially break the ground for new ways to treat metabolic diseases, such as atherosclerosis and cancer.

  10.03.2023

• AI Plus Chemistry: Lab Robots, Drug Development and More

  As science grows more complex, successful researchers have to rely on more than experiments and calculations: AI is quickly becoming indispensable. Predicting the properties of molecules and materials for drug delivery, synthesizing compounds with set properties, and developing new materials – these are just a few of the tasks flawlessly accomplished by AI. For this article, we turned to ITMO’s Nikita Serov, an engineer at the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry, to talk about the doors opened by AI in natural sciences.

  03.03.2023

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #24

  Join us in reviewing the best science news from the first half of February! And there’s quite a lot to see: from incredible student projects and medical advances to a retrospective of Russia’s greatest scientists.

  13.02.2023