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• Picture of the Week: Dendritic Growth of Salt Crystals

  Such structures are used for growing cell cultures. They provide an environment for the growth of metal ions and adjust the media’s acid-alkaline balance.

  01.03.2021

• ITMO Associate Professor Elena Koshel on What DNA Robots Could Mean for Medicine

  During the third scientific meetup in a recently-introduced series, Elena Koshel, an associate professor at ITMO University’s ChemBio Cluster and head of the Microbiology team, discussed DNA robots and how specialists at SCAMT are using them to develop a new system for express diagnostics.

  28.01.2021

• International Research Team Makes Progress in HRS Virus Study

  An international research team that includes scientists from ITMO University has come closer to understanding the structure of the human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) which affects thousands every year. The reserachers have partially mapped out the three-dimensional structure of the NS1 protein contained in HRSV and identified the structural parts responsible for the suppression of the human immune system. The results of the study have been published in the Nature Microbiology journal.

  31.07.2017