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Besting Elon Musk at Memristors and Making a Vascular System Model to End Animal Testing: Results of SCAMT Workshop Week
…om different Russian cities: from Vladivostok and Kaliningrad to Krasnodar and St. Petersburg. SCAMT Workshop Week is a new format of week-long workshops that allows young scientists from all over Russia to try their hand at working on topical research problems using cutting-edge equipment. At the end of last year, the project was featured in the short-list of th…
28.01.2020
Good Product Is a User-Friendly Product: ITMO Student Working on Interface Design Framework for People with Dyslexia
…udies at Tallinn University? It was human-computer interaction or HCI. I had five subjects: Accessible Computing, Prototyping, Foundations of HCI, Principles of Behavioural Science, and Design Theory and Methodology. I was given a very interesting practical assignment as part of this course. The assignment was dedicated to the topic of environmental protection and…
27.01.2020
Bioinformatics Specialist Alexey Komissarov on Gaps in Genomic Studies and Plans to Close Them
…y did you decide on bioinformatics? Indeed, I defended my PhD thesis “Organization of large tandem repeats in the mouse genome” in the field of molecular biology under the scientific advisorship of Olga Podgornaya in 2012, but it so happened that in actuality, it was almost entirely dedicated to bioinformatics. The thing is that by that point, most issues in geno…
27.01.2020
Scientists Propose an Inkjet Printing Technology for Battery Elements to Make Them Compact and Flexible
…d with an electrolyte, a layer of anode material, which receives lithium ions from the cathode, and a top layer made of copper, which serves as the upper current collector. In scientific samples, this is repeated once, while in commercial samples such a structure is repeated hundreds and thousands times.” Printing the cathode A group of St. Petersburg
24.01.2020
FAQ: Registering Ownership And Protecting Intellectual Property
…What kind of scientific work is protected as intellectual property? Yulia Lyubchenko, the head of the Office for Legal Support of Activities in the Fields of Information, Science and Technology: In order for your work to be protected, it has to fulfill three criteria. First, this work has to take physical form. It cannot just be…
24.01.2020
Mahdi Akhlaqi: The Attitude We Have Towards Ourselves Makes Us Who We Are And Who We Will Be
…et accepted and they became some of the most successful in their fields. On the contrary, People with an extensive academic background get recognition in advanced academic and scientific research and they bring significant changes to the globe, Nobel laureates make their way through the most prestigious award in their fields, known as the Nobel Prize which is being c…
23.01.2020
ITMO Scientists and Mariinskaya Hospital Specialists Are Developing a New Thrombolytic Drug
Daniil Sharov on Being a Physicist and a Science Communicator
…ything to be perfect: the demonstration, the lesson itself, the way you grade their homework. If you liked it that much, why didn’t you start teaching and went on to study science communication instead? When I graduated, I kept wondering whether I could be a good teacher, if I was even capable of presenting my subject in an entertaining way. To get inspired, …
22.01.2020
Scientists Create Listeriosis-Immune Mice by Turning off Gene in Myeloid Cells
…The way the immune system functions is an extremely complex process and the mechanics of it have still not been fully understood by scientists. Which proteins are responsible for the immune response? Can an organism be made genetically impervious to all, or at least some malignant bacteria? Biologists and geneticists all over the world seek answers to these questions…
22.01.2020
ITMO’s Rector Vladimir Vasilyev: Science Can’t Be Measured in Square Meters
… which of the Institute’s facilities could be occupied by ITMO’s laboratories. This happened in March 2019. According to our information and to that of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, in April the Institute contacted the Ministry to ask for permission to rent a number of facilities on Makarova Embankment to some for-profit organizations. I would…
21.01.2020