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New Blockchain-Based System Will Control Quality of Medical and Chemical Products
…ilities are formally outlined in their contract, but in the event that a low-quality product is supplied (even if the customer company is able to prove it), the delays caused to production will result in a major loss, adds Alexander Vinogradov. As a solution to this problem, specialists from ITMO University’s international laboratory SCAMT together with experts fr…
25.05.2018
St. Petersburg International Economic Forum: Hi-Tech in IT, Medicine and Economics
…ly a billion diabetics on the planet. We can’t personalize medicine for everyone right now, but we must start accounting for everyone’s individual traits. For instance, when the connection between obesity and diabetes was established, people started to encourage weight loss and that led to an epidemic of anorexia among young people. Eating disorders lead to depressio…
24.05.2018
NSP2018: Scientists Discuss Nanostructures in Photonics
…op-priority areas of research for us. We’ve already got some very good results in this area. One of the major goals is to understand the specifics of molecular movement in various reactions, and the first steps have already been made. We’ve also just finished the second competition that will determine how much time with the laser will be allotted to each scientific t…
24.05.2018
Scientists Develop Improved Model for Study of Zika Virus
…issue, scientists were actively exploring the development of a virus-induced disease in animal models, for example, in mice. However, healthy mice are resistant to any human-like infection symptoms. Therefore, mice with mute immune response genes are usually used to study the virus. Such models are not very effective, as they cannot accurately reflect what happens wh…
24.05.2018
ITMO University Participates in DigiTwins Project
…ial, and the Human Brain Project that aims to investigate the brain on different spatial and temporal scales. This May, the results of the preliminary stage of the competitive selection of new FET projects were announced. In the course of the summer, all of the consortiums that got their applications approved will have to prepare a document package on their projec…
24.05.2018
Special Summer Schools for High School Students at ITMO
…acies of ice-cream-making. “The goal of this school is to increase consumer literacy with regards to food products. For instance, one of the classes will focus on dairy production technologies; the students will measure the ratio of beneficial microflora in fermented milk products and learn to make yoghurt at home,” – says Lyudmila Nadtochiy, head of the Dep…
23.05.2018
BigXP: Unique Service, Unique Opportunities
ITMO Students Perform Karl Capek's R.U.R. on Stage
…ing of artificial intelligence. However, for the most part, the original text was preserved,” comments Alexandra Nikitina, tutor of the Foreign Languages Training Center and the production's scriptwriter. We spoke to Valentina Diulger, who directed the play, about how the play came about, the challenges that were faced and her future plans. Where did th…
23.05.2018
ITMO Hosts Conference on Cognitive Technologies and Quantum Intelligence
…gher School of Economics, the boundaries of what we call cognitive science are becoming all the more ill-defined. At first, this field was said to include only research at the intersection of experimental psychology, philosophy of mind, linguistics, computer science, neural science and cultural anthropology, but now it also involves such fields as economics and law. …
22.05.2018
ITMO University Invites Young Scientists to Study Graphene-Type 2D Materials
…ch is why I’m glad that I work at ITMO University with competent professionals. What are your next goals here? As I’ve mentioned, we’re currently building a system for the production of heterostructures. Soon, we’ll start the experiments and create two-dimensional heterostructures right here at the university. Thankfully, we have enough funding to do this kind …
22.05.2018