A pair of very special speakers took part in a conference devoted to 3D bioprinting in space at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Wednesday. Two cosmonauts – commander Anton Shkaplerov and flight engineer Oleg Artemyev – answered questions and interacted...
Russia’s first commercial research biobank, National BioService , opened a brand new laboratory at the Skolkovo Technopark on Thursday. The National BioService lab at the Skolkovo Technopark will be used for both the company's own research and...
A Skolkovo Foundation resident scientist is embarking on a joint research project into cardiovascular disease together with British scientists after the team won a grant issued by the British Council as part of the U.K.-Russia Year of Science and Education...
The gigantic oceanarium that opened in Russia’s Far East last year could become a centre of excellence in aquaculture with the help of the Skolkovo innovation centre. The Primorsky Oceanarium opened in the Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok last...
Огромный океанариум, открывшийся в 2016 году на острове Русский, до сих пор в основном служил источником новостей для хроники происшествий, однако в недалекой перспективе с помощью «Сколково» может сделаться центром компетенций в сфере аквакультуры...
The Skolkovo Foundation’s biomed cluster, which includes an agrotech division, signed two agreements with agricultural companies on Thursday at the second day of the Open Innovations forum. Kirill Kaem, left, and Alexei Kuznetsov, head of RusChemBio...
В фильме Питера Ландесмана «Concussion» (в русском переводе он почему-то называется «Защитник») патологоанатом Беннет Омалу, его играет Уилл Смит, устанавливает диагноз «хронической травматической энцефалопатии» (ХТЭ) —...
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates proclaimed. Almost 2,500 years later, biologists and geneticists around the world have come to the conclusion that he was right. With antibiotics in...
The saying goes that if you want to stay friends with people, you shouldn’t talk about religion or politics. In the 21 st century, perhaps another subject should be added to the list of taboo subjects in polite company: genomics. One genomics debate...
The team behind Russia's biggest genome project to date, Genome Russia, is holding a “bake off” of genome sequencing centres to determine which centre would handle the crucial task most efficiently. There's just one problem: if the winner...
National genome projects that study the gene pool of a specific country can not only reveal much about a country’s history and its inhabitants’ roots, they can also bring about advances in medical treatment. But while some countries have poured...
«Куба могла бы стать отличным плацдармом для развития нашего бизнеса в Латинской Америке», - считает представитель Первого онкологического научно-консультационного центра (ПОНКЦ) Алексей Стрыгин. Его мнение по итогам поездки на Кубу разделяют другие...
Skolkovo has begun accepting applications from startup companies in the agriculture business and expects its first residents by the end of the year, opening up new avenues of research that experts say are of critical importance for biotech in Russian and beyond...