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• HelloDNA: Learning to Align DNA sequences While Playing Tetris

  …solutely for everyone. We made it so that it would be accessible and understandable for any person, not necessarily those who have knowledge or background in biology, computer science or bioinformatics. There are some clues, and as long as the user reads them, he or she can understand what to do. The game is based on Tetris, as its setup is very intuitive. Yulia K…

  25.04.2017

• Virtual World in a Couple of Days

  …specialists who gave lectures for the participants and the representatives of Wargaming. The contest included two catigories: “The best innovation idea” and “Popularizing of a scientific approach.” The experts evaluated intensity, plot and visualization of games, paid attention to a fun component and presentation skills of the participants. The Audience Choice Awa…

  25.04.2017

• Solar Panel of the New Generation by ITMO PhD Student

  …First of all, the efficiency of solar panels is only 20-25%, but at the same time they are very expensive due to silicon which has to be developed in a laboratory.  As of now, scientists work on a new type of panels based on perovskites instead of silicon, as it can absorb solar energy more effectively. Furthermore, the elements made of this material are cheaper and …

  25.04.2017

• All-Russian Lab Session: Solving Life’s Difficult Questions

  …ites fly? Why do night and day follow each other? Why is winter cold and what’s the weight of a blue whale’s iris? “For the last hundred years, the world’s understanding of science has developed immensely, we made a lot of discoveries, which we couldn’t have even imagined 300 years ago.  However, many have “fallen behind” from these discoveries. Even though we all…

  24.04.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …March for Science around the world. Thousands of scientists and supporters of science showed their discontent with “an alarming trend toward discrediting scientific consensus and restricting scientific discovery” in marches in New York City, Ber…

  24.04.2017

• Science Through the Eyes of a Child: What Makes Biology Interesting

  …Yulia, can you share a bit more about your scientific research. How did it start? My project is devoted to the study of oyster mushrooms and the conditions for their growth and development. My biology teacher last year suggested this research topic. Actually there were two topics, one about caries and the second on the study of mushrooms. However, I am afraid of d…

  21.04.2017

• ITMO's Team Nominated for the "Top 50 Most famous people in St. Petersburg"

  …This year, there are seven nominees in the Science and Life section. Among them is a team from ITMO University that consists of five members. Department heads Vladimir Parfenov and Anatoliy Shaluto are famed for having trained thousands of IT-specialists and scientists during the last 20 years. They and Andrei Stankevich brought ITMO to…

  21.04.2017

• Holography Helped to Quickly Learn the Number of Particles in Volume

  …nirs, marking products and protective signs. But it is also used in industry for studying the topography of surfaces and deformations in products. As part of a new project, scientists from ITMO University Tatiana Vovk and Nikolay Petrov developed a method for express analyzing the distribution of microscopic particles in transparent media. The approach is based on…

  20.04.2017

• Fight Diseases at the Nanolevel: How ITMO’s New Lab Works on Targeted Drug Delivery

  …rolled Nanosystems for Theranostics of Oncological and Heart Diseases is a part of ITMO’s International Research and Education Center for Physics of Nanostructures. Apart from scientific projects the researchers pay attention to education - it is planned to organize seminars headed by Russian and international specialists dealing with applications of nanostructured m…

  19.04.2017

• VI Congress of Young Scientists: Students Share Their Stories

  …ssion of the Congress was opened by ITMO's Rector Vladimir Vasilyev. The professor told of the essential changes that now define the main trends in the development of Russia's science. "The VI Congress is quite the milestone, as two significant events happened in the end of 2016 and continued on to 2017. First of all, on December, 1st, the President defined the st…

  19.04.2017