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• #10YearChallenge in Technology

  …al activities. Bank cards A mere ten years ago, not so many people in Russia used credit cards, which have undergone some changes since 2009, the main one being a magnetic stripe replaced with a microchip. Contactless payment technologies, such as Samsung Pay and Apple Pay, are gaining wide acceptance, which means that the days of plastic cards are numbe…

  30.01.2019

• Genetic Testing: What Human Genome Tells Us About Ourselves

  …p to several millions of probes, and make it possible to test individual humans for the presence of specific mutations in their DNA. One of the most direct methods of genetic testing, notes Alexey Sergushichev, is genome-wide association study (GWAS). It is used to search for single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and the related phenotypic traits. Today, the …

  29.01.2019

• Robot’s DNA, Biofuel Cells and Holographic Protection: SCAMT Workshop Week at ITMO

  …cult to reach the bacteria in these biofilms with antibiotics, but this problem can be partially solved by the use of nanomaterials. These materials initiate the transfer of genetic information inside the films, and we can take advantage of this characteristic. For example, we used nanomaterials to transfer a plasmid carrying an antibiotic resistance gene from one ba…

  28.01.2019

• CEO of 02 Light Systems on Importance of Seeing Eye to Eye with Engineers and Working with Universities

  …includes ITMO, St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, and a range of industrial partners, we became involved in a large-scale project on designing a wireless data transmission network system that draws on an innovative Li-Fi technology. Its operating principle is close to that of a Wi-Fi router: connecting to the network and accessin…

  25.01.2019

• The New Kilogram: Reasons Behind Upcoming Measurement Reform

  …alancing of two forces. But what makes this one special is that the weight of a measured object is compensated by the Lorentz force, which is the force exerted by an electromagnetic field on an electric conductor inside said field. “Until now, we’ve based our measurements and calculations on laws that are over a century old. The quantum laws, however, were much …

  24.01.2019

• Analyzing Metagenome Helps Understand the Role of Bacterial Species in Crohn’s Disease

  …Crohn’s disease is a severe inflammatory bowel disease that is highly spread in developed countries. Amongst its possible causes are genetic predisposition, environment and patients’ lifestyle. The disease is associated with a compromised reaction of the immune system to a person's own gut microbes, as well as an imbalance in gut microbiota. In order to study its dev…

  24.01.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: January 26-27

  … Ground-floor windows of buildings will be boarded up, walls will abound with maps, photographs and information posters, and the streets will be rife with sandbags, camouflage nets and anti-tank barriers, as per the custom of the time. Two big screens, set up especially for the project, will show wartime newsreels. Admission is free. On the eve of the big day, Jan…

  23.01.2019

• Moscow Topography of Terror, Geography of Holocaust and Gulag Retrospective: Digital Humanities Projects That Remind of the Horrible Past

  …earn the stories of particular people and how a single document could have changed their lives. 1917. Free history This multimedia project is an imitation of what social networks and associated media projects would've looked like if they had existed in 1917. The project was launched in 2016 by a team of specialists led by journalist Mikhail Zygar. Their idea wa…

  23.01.2019

• St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems: Eclecticism

  …he buildings inspired by Renaissance architecture is the Moskovsky railway station, the second railway station in St. Petersburg, designed by Konstantin Thon. Although large Venetian windows, two floors of Corinthian columns and a two-story clocktower at the center explicitly reference Italian Renaissance architecture, the building incorporates other features from a …

  22.01.2019

• Ins and Outs of Modern Animation