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• Silicon Nanoparticles Perform Bioimaging and Drug Delivery

  …Scientists from ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering together with colleagues from Germany and Sweden have studied a new cell visualization and drug delivery system based on nanoparticles coated with luminescent dye molecules. Scientists have found out that the particle material and the distance between the dye and the particle’s s…

  29.05.2018

• Scientists develop improved model for study of Zika virus

  …A research group from the University of Washington in St. Louis and ITMO University has developed a new animal model used to study the pathogenesis of the Zika virus. Scientists were able to induce the disease in mice in a way that is similar to human pathology. The new model reflects the most dangerous manifestation of the Zika virus: infection of the fetus from a p…

  29.05.2018

• New concept for structural colors

  …Scientists of the University of Hamburg (TUHH), the ITMO-University in St. Petersburg and the Helmholtz-Center Geesthacht have developed a novel concept that enables colorants which are based on non-toxic materials, which further do not bleach in the sunlight and which do not lose their appearance under high processing temperatures (as needed for glazes of ceramics).…

  17.05.2018

• Electromagnetic wizardry: Wireless power transfer enhanced by backward signal

  …An international research team including scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and ITMO University has proposed a way to increase the efficiency of wireless power transfer over long distances and tested it with numerical simulations and experiments. To achieve this, they beamed power between two antennas, one of which was excited with a back-…

  18.04.2018

• Russia, India work on edtech cooperation

  …Russia’s Ministry of Education and Science is prioritising future cooperation with India on educational and digital programs, according to Alexander Sobolev, director of the Department of State policy in higher education, who spoke to the Indo-Asian News Service on a recent trip to India. It would not be the first time Russian and Indian HEIs have combined on technol…

  14.12.2017

• Want to study at a Russian university for zilch? Here’s how

  …s been organized by Russia’s top universities. The winner will get the chance to study at one of 500 Russian universities of his/her choice, offering Master’s programs in four sciences – computer science, physics, mathematics andeconomics. The lucky victor will also enjoy early admission and tuition-free education in the university. Com…

  04.12.2017

• Russia keen to develop education programmes with India using modern digital technology

  …«ITMO University (in St. Petersburg) is the Russian leader in IT, providing training and research in advanced science, humanities, engineering and modern information technology, developing translational IT, which means applying the university's expertise in computer technologies, for example, to health care, urban and social studies, blending the culture of innovatio…

  01.12.2017

• 3 questions about the European XFEL to Serguei Molodtsov

  …Professor Dr Serguei Molotsov is Scientific Director of the European XFEL x-ray laser. The Russian physicist came to Freie Universitat (FU) Berlin in 1991 as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. What is the significance of working at the European XFEL for him personally, and how would he assess the importance of this research facility for international …

  07.11.2017

• Algorithm says Trump is a bachelor!

  …ty of Singapore have come up with an algorithm to determine Internet users’ marital status with 86% precision by means of combining data from three social media platforms. The scientists believe that their findings will help make more detailed human psychological portraits in future. While testing, however, the programme showed a surprising result: it identified the …

  01.11.2017

• This Algorithm Mines Instagram For 'Authentic' Travel Experiences

  …rist” is practically a dirty word these days. Tourists are loud. Tourists are rude. Tourists are ignorant. Tourists are poorly dressed, selfie stick-wielding cliches. Computer scientists at ITMO University in St Petersburg, Russia, have developed a high-tech answer. They found a way to distinguish between Instagram users living in St. Petersburg and visiting tourists…

  28.09.2017