“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...
В Сколково с большим успехом прошла конференция по популяционной генетике «Геном России». Вместе с Юрием Никольским, директором по науке биомедицинского кластера, ее организовала Татьяна Татаринова, один из самых известных российских биологов, работающих...
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...
«Если вы хотите жить дольше, больше двигайтесь, меньше ешьте и постарайтесь родиться в семье с хорошей наследственностью». Такой совет Джеймс Кэпут, старший эксперт Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, дал участникам саммита по персонализированному...
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...
Чтобы прокормить растущее население Земли, в ближайшие полвека человечеству придется произвести такое же количество еды, какое было произведено за минувшие 10 тысяч лет. Такой прогноз прозвучал в Гиперкубе в Сколково на первой масштабной и тематически разнообразной...
“Did you know that more than 70 percent of cancer patient deaths are caused not by the cancer itself, but by the side effects of chemotherapy?” With this shocking statistic just minutes into the presentation of his product, Andrei Garazha has the...
“What’s Russia famous for? The Kalashnikov – the AK47,” says Vladimir Mironov, chief scientific officer at 3D Bioprinting Solutions . “Well now we have a different motto: not shoot to kill, but shoot to heal – using a tissue...
Несмотря на то, что направление «Биотехнологии в сельском хозяйстве и промышленности» было вычленено в структуре биомедицинского кластера «Сколково» совсем недавно (к приему заявок Фонд приступил в августе), уже скопилась очередь из...
Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...
The Startup Tour completed its penultimate stop this week on its three-month journey around Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, putting the central city of Ufa firmly on the map of Russian innovation. ThUfa's State Petrochemical Technological University...
Seventeen innovations received recognition at the Minsk stage of the Startup Tour this week, with four projects winning a place in the pitch sessions at Startup Village in Moscow this summer. The winners of the Belarus pitch sessions. Photo: sk.ru ...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The Kazakh stage of the Startup Tour concluded on Friday with several innovations winning a place at the Startup Village in June and, perhaps more significantly, the foundations put in place for of a new era of high-tech cooperation between...
The fifth stage of the Russian Startup Tour culminated this week with four teams from Yekaterinburg winning an invitation to the Startup Village in Moscow. The finalists in Yekaterinburg. Photo: sk.ru The capital of the Ural Mountains region was...
The Russian Startup Tour unearthed some innovative gems in Kazan over the last two days, with six startups invited to Startup Village in Moscow and four million rubles in investments handed out. At the pitch competition in the Kazan IT park on Tuesday and...
13-14 ноября 2014г. в Курске , в Юго-Западном госуниверситете (ЮЗГУ) , при полном аншлаге и с участием ведущих научно-технологических центров университета и города прошли Дни инноваций «Сколково» в Курске. Курск как один из важнейших научных...
Фонд «Сколково» будет представлять Россию на «русском дне» крупнейшего международного биотехнологического конгресса BIO 2014 в Сан-Диего. Как ожидается, «Сколково» также подпишет соглашение с большой биотехнологической компанией...
May 26 through 28, The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) hosted Russia’s largest scientific symposium on the development of biomedicine in Russia and globally, titled Therapies of the Future. Therapies of the Future is the...