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• Researcher Daria Martynova on the Connection Between Art and Medicine

  Daria Martynova is not only a PhD student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts but also a manager at ITMO University’s Center of Social and Humanities Knowledge, as well as an assistant at the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations.

  09.12.2020

• ITMO University Researchers Shed New Light on Plasmonic Nanolasers

  For six years, a research team from the Photophysics of Surface Laboratory at ITMO’s International Research and Educational Center for Physics of Nanostructures has been studying plasmonic nanolasers – a long-standing subject of debate in the scientific community. The study was conducted as part of a Russian Presidential Grant.

  08.12.2020

• Picture of the Week: Spinneret of Linothele Fallax Spider

  Various species of spiders use silk from their spinnerets to produce threads for their webs. In science, these threads can serve as a multifunctional natural material for drug delivery and other medical applications.

  07.12.2020

• In Search of Phantom: Regular Graphite and PVC to Help Diagnose Oncological Diseases

  ITMO University scientists from the Terahertz Medicine laboratory proposed a concept of a new phantom for calibrating medical terahertz spectrometers. The concept helps the devices to identify the boundaries of a tumor with better precision so that it would be easier to remove it surgically.

  07.12.2020

• Scientists Develop Transparent High-Performance Material for Flexible Displays and Solar Panels

  The creation of such materials became possible thanks to the joint efforts of researchers from St. Petersburg Academic University, ITMO University, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, and Aalto University. Learn more about its advantages and ITMO’s contribution to the research in this article.

  04.12.2020

• Scientists Demonstrate New Opportunities for Controlling Light in Optical Graphene

  This will help scientists and engineers to better understand the properties of light propagating in materials with a hexagonal structure, and use this knowledge in fundamental research and the development of optical devices. Physicists from ITMO took part in this research.  The article was published in Nature Photonics. 

  03.12.2020

• ITMO Researchers Find Quick and Easy Way to Detect Tick-Borne Encephalitis

  Scientists from ITMO University have created a testing device to detect tick-borne encephalitis that can be used to identify the virus at home. The results of this work have been published in ACS Applied Bio Materials. 

  30.11.2020

• Picture of the Week: Fluorescence Microscopy Image of Neuroblastoma

  Neuroblastoma cells are used in the first stages of testing biocompatibility of nervous system drugs.

  30.11.2020

• Scientists Propose Method of Assessing the Gene-Disease Connection

  The method can be used to assess the probability of a specific gene or genes affecting various processes in an organism, including the development of diseases. The article was published in BMC Bioinformatics.

  27.11.2020

• Beginner’s Guide to Brainstorming and Writing Articles for Scientific Journals

  How many experiments should you carry out for an article? What do you do if you can't get into Nano Letters on the first try? And, above all, how do you deal with frustration and burnout? Find all the answers to these troubling questions in this ITMO.NEWS article.

  25.11.2020