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New Targeted Drug Effectively Dissolves Blood Clots, Has Fewer Side Effects
…ct, we have demonstrated how the concept we developed works for more specific objects. We prepared a thrombolytic colloid and tested its effects on an artificial blood clots obtained from plasma and blood of humans, and thrombus extracted from patients. The results may soon allow us to try out the new thrombolytic system on mammals. Now we are preparing for preclinic…
20.06.2016
Personalized Medicine to Employ Computer Algorithms
…Every person has a genome – a specific sequence of genes according to which an individual develops. However, any living organism contains another gene sequence that is called the metagenome. It is the total DNA content of many different microorganisms that inhabit the same environment – bacteria, fungi and viruses. The metagenome often indicates various diseases or p…
15.06.2016
Keep Calm and Do Research: ITMO U PhD Students Received Prestigious Grant
…nce and other costs required for staying abroad. The only limitation is that the total sum of money don`t have to be more than 24,000 $. Students are not obliged to work at certain Russian companies to repay after their coming back. Candidates should be recommended by the organization, which submits an application. They also write a motivation letter as well as recei…
08.06.2016
How to Be a Russian Master`s Student and Australian PhD Researcher at the Same Time
… ITMO University in 2013 in alliance with my colleague Alexander Poddubny who suggested a fantastic idea! He offered to develop an electromagnetic structure in which one can obtain safe topological edge states. Moreover, it was the first world`s experiment in obtaining subwave edge states (researchers dealt with states that were smaller…
06.06.2016
Higher Ed: “To Tackle Issues that Take Longer than a Lifetime”
…ffairs. NAFSA 2016 would be less impressive and meaningful without David Brooks who explained why things one says are not what one is teaching, because education process contains invisible but core aims that are impossible to forget. Mr. Brooks, who also teaches students using his experience and examples from classical literature, urged delegates to think about a …
05.06.2016
ITMO Students Participated in Google I/O
…asha: I think that the Google Allo messaging app will be a serious competition for current messaging apps. There’s one really interesting function. When you want to express certain feelings or emotions while texting, you usually have to send some kind of emoticon. With Google Allo you can show the degree of your feeling, by increasing or decreasing the size of the em…
03.06.2016
Let's Save the Environment for the Next Generation: What's the Role of Universities?
… “In 1992, Rio de Janeiro hosted the UN conference, during which the "Agenda 21" was adopted, and the main principles for sustainable development were formulated. This interdisciplinary approach is based on economics, social aspects and ecology. Sustainable Development means meeting the needs of this generation without compromising the…
01.06.2016
How to Create the Best Environment to Realize the True Potential of Universities
…ening up for universities is the field of small distributed energy, smart-grid. Production in this area is too small for industrial giants. Small turbines, generators, self-contained units that are adapted for a specific customer, can be designed by small groups with the involvement of the bigger design office. To create these products it is necessary to have test fa…
27.05.2016
Supercrystals With New Architecture Can Enhance Drug Synthesis
…a supercrystal to solve a specific problem. Conversely, having data on the supercrystal structure, we can accurately predict its optical activity”. Based on the results obtained by the Russian scientists, their colleagues from Dresden University of Technology plan to bring the model to life and synthesize the supercrystal by means of DNA origami. This method all…
24.05.2016
How Can the British Government Help Russian Students?
…ma would go to, let’s say, European universities and talk to their students. This is why I hope that this discussion will improve the relationships between Russia and Great Britain, at least in the fields of education and science. Personally I would really like to study in England, and I dream of going there for one or two semesters; actually, my dream is to get a Ph…
24.05.2016